Teach Like a Champion 3.0

Many moons ago, I encountered Doug Lemov's book Teach Like a Champion.  Although the book compiles pedagogical techniques gleaned from teaching elementary and high school students, I found many of the techniques translated well to the undergraduate classroom. When associate dean, I provided each faculty member a copy of Teach Like a Champion.  The faculty self organized and held a series of brown bag discussions in which one or more of the pedagogical techniques were discussed and/or faculty shared their experiences applying one of the techniques.  

I learned that Lemov has just published Teach Like a Champion 3.0: 63 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College. I look forward to getting a copy to experience this latest version of what I consider to be an essential pedagogical resource. 

  

94% of educators agree that video directly contributes to improvement in student performance

 So touts the eCampusNews: 

A new survey predicts that video in education will continue to grow, as a majority of educators say they believe video content is more engaging and effective than text-based content.

Yep, as a record number of courses went online or hybrid due to campus residency restrictions, faculty use of video in their courses escalated. Yep. And, anecdotally, students appreciate the ability to control the speed of video content and the ability to revisit video content as they wish. (Whether students engage video content in the first place, is a whole different matter). There is evidence that video course content positively impacts course completion rates. A key question faculty ponder: how to best leverage video as a pedagogical tool.   

However, the skeptic in me wonders if a study conducted by a company that provides video solutions  provides the guidance faculty seek.  

GO BIG: ASU's Thunderbird Seeks 100 million Learners by 2030

 Arizona State University is never shy about going big! Check this out:

The Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University plans to launch a new global management and entrepreneurship online certificate program that will offer five free online business courses in 40 languages worldwide and aims to reach 100 million learners by 2030, 70 percent of them women. 

The program was announced by the university Thursday and will be funded by a $25 million alumni gift matched by in-kind donations from the business school and the university, which will bring the business school at least halfway to the $100 million goal for launching the program across the next two years, said Sanjeev Khagram, dean of the business school.

Or is this vapor program/course-ware?  This, to me, is a big tell:

Khagram [dean, ASU's business school] said he is working with the university to ensure the certificate can be converted for college credits. 

In my experience this may be a surmountable hurdle, but many moons must first align.  

Will this certificate program get off the planning board? This will be fun to watch!