Curated Playlist by Clemson University’s Office of Teaching Effectiveness and Innovation
Quick, Curated, and Ready-to-go
- Each playlist features a few short podcast episodes or videos — less than 60 minutes total — centered on a common theme or topic related to teaching.
- Listen on your commute, walk, or between classes.
We recommend that you listen with a place to take notes nearby, but safety first if you are listening in the car!
Playlist # 20: Learning About Learning – Insights From Learning Science
Explore how learning science can inform your course design, assessment, and classroom activities. This playlist highlights evidence-based strategies that help students lean more effectively through inclusive assessment options, retrieval and interleaving practices, and insights from neuroscience. As a bonus, explore how social learning shapes student growth and consider a provocative question: What if grades are lying to us? This bonus episode challenges us to rethink learning as observable behavior rather than simply a measure of performance.
(1) Brain Hack: 6 Secrets to Learning Faster, Backed by Neuroscience
Study Tips, Shareable with Students, Practical Strategies – 18 minutes
(2) Wandering Minds: Improving Retention Through Retrieval Practices, Interleaving, and Microactivities
Study Habits, Class Practices – 17 minutes
[insert playlist transcript link – use descriptive text for the hyperlink]
(3) Choose Your Own Biology Assessment
STEM applicable, Multi-modalities, Group Work – 46 Minutes
Short on time? Listen to minute 8:00 through minute 30:00 for a focused overview of how assessment choice can increase student engagement, agency, and inclusion without sacrificing learning outcomes.
Check out the Think UDL webpage for the transcript and more resources!
(BONUS) What if grades are lying to us? Rethinking Learning as Observable Behavior
Learning as an Observable Competency vs Inferring from Proxies – 22 minutes
What if grades are lying Spotify link.
Playlist Created by: S. Otterbeck, Ph.D.
Blog Post Created by: Z. Adnan and S. Otterbeck, Ph.D.
