
The Ones Too Often Left Behind In Higher Education
11/30/23 • 47 min
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Todd Zakrajsek shares about the ones who are too often left behind in higher education on episode 494 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I don’t want to see a person left behind.
-Todd Zakrajsek
I just assumed that teaching looked a certain way, and then little by little, I started meeting different individuals who struggled for different reasons.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Teaching is the profession that makes all professions possible.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Nobody fails alone.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Resources
Todd Zakrajsek shares about the ones who are too often left behind in higher education on episode 494 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I don’t want to see a person left behind.
-Todd Zakrajsek
I just assumed that teaching looked a certain way, and then little by little, I started meeting different individuals who struggled for different reasons.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Teaching is the profession that makes all professions possible.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Nobody fails alone.
-Todd Zakrajsek
Resources
Previous Episode

Openness as a Way of Being
Maha Bali exudes openness as a way of being on episode 493 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I don’t really know everything I have to say, but I’m willing to share my unfinished thoughts with you and I am willing to be criticized for it.
-Maha Bali
If people don’t have the vocabulary to express how they feel, they’ll just say they are fine.
-Maha Bali
This is a space where everyone in the room has to be collectively inclusive, and that’s kind of part of what equity and inclusion in facilitation and in classrooms needs to be.
-Maha Bali
My mentoring is not out of responsibility as something that I have to, I do it with joy because I’m building relationships with people.
-Maha Bali
Resources
- Winners of the 2023 Open Education Awards for Excellence
- adrienne maree brown
- Emotion Grid
- Nurturing Learner Empowerment with Intentional Equity, Care and Compassion, presented by Maha Bali for eCampus Ontario
- Maha’s Slide Deck from Her Presentation
- My Role Model for Open, Caring and Generous Mentoring Jon Nixon, by Maha Bali
- Interpretive Pedagogies for Higher Education: Arendt, Berger, Said, Nussbaum and Their Legacies, by Jon Nixon
Next Episode

Using QR Codes to Design Engaging Learning Experiences
Tolulope (Tolu) Noah shares about using QR codes to design engaging learning experiences on episode 495 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
QR codes can be used to support universal design for learning (UDL) principles, specifically in regards to providing multiple means of engagement and providing multiple means of representation.
-Tolulope (Tolu) Noah
If your students created a video, why not create QR codes to share that video with other students so that they can learn from the content too?
-Tolulope (Tolu) Noah
Resources
- 8 Ways to Use QR Codes in Higher Education Classrooms
- Share Pages with a QR Code in Google Chrome
- One-Pager: Scanning & Creating QR Codes via Shortcuts
- Video: Creating QR Codes
- Adobe Express QR Code Generator
- Bitly
- Making QR Codes More Accessible and Improving Business Accessibility, by Benjamin Rousey
- Accessibility and QR Codes by Joe Lamyman
- Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Mobile Mindful Teaching & Learning, by Christina Moore
- Mentimeter
- Flip
- Padlet
- Gallery Walk
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