Robert Talbert
@roberttalbert.bsky.social
Mathematician, professor, writer, speaker, dad, bassist, wannabe data scientist. My views != my employer's. http://rtalbert.org Music: http://bandmix.com/rtbass https://www.instagram.com/rtgrooves/
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September 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
PSA: Effective immediately I will no longer be active on this account. The account will stay open, but I will not be logging in, posting, or responding to replies or DMs at this website. You will still be able to interact with me on Twitter and LinkedIn. Thanks.
If AI tools had been put into development five years earlier, so that in 2020 they would have been at 2025 levels in terms of power and features, how would education during the pandemic have played out differently?
September 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
If AI tools had been put into development five years earlier, so that in 2020 they would have been at 2025 levels in terms of power and features, how would education during the pandemic have played out differently?
The authors of this paper are either ed-tech bros, or are being paid by them, or just woke up one morning and said "YOLO" then decided to come right out of the gates with debatable assumptions.
September 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The authors of this paper are either ed-tech bros, or are being paid by them, or just woke up one morning and said "YOLO" then decided to come right out of the gates with debatable assumptions.
Just read a paper from 2020, pre-pandemic, that talked a lot about "21st century skills". Pretty startling to think how that concept has changed in five years. The 21st century didn't follow our blueprint it turns out.
September 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Just read a paper from 2020, pre-pandemic, that talked a lot about "21st century skills". Pretty startling to think how that concept has changed in five years. The 21st century didn't follow our blueprint it turns out.
Journals that make authors include key artifacts from their research studies in an "online supplement", but then do not post a link to the supplement in the article or on the journal website, can also go frak themselves
September 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Journals that make authors include key artifacts from their research studies in an "online supplement", but then do not post a link to the supplement in the article or on the journal website, can also go frak themselves
My POV chasing down papers to read for the literature review for my flipped learning book, about half the time
September 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
My POV chasing down papers to read for the literature review for my flipped learning book, about half the time
It's always cool to find yourself cited in a research paper. Less cool when your name is misspelled. Between this and having "G. Valley" listed as a co-author I'm starting to feel like I get no respect 😂
September 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
It's always cool to find yourself cited in a research paper. Less cool when your name is misspelled. Between this and having "G. Valley" listed as a co-author I'm starting to feel like I get no respect 😂
New at Grading For Growth: Jane Wageman shares strategies for tracking growth through the revision process in a university writing class.
Feedback, revisions, and the writing process
Tracking growth across drafts in an undergraduate research course
gradingforgrowth.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
New at Grading For Growth: Jane Wageman shares strategies for tracking growth through the revision process in a university writing class.
Went to a home football game last night and had to meet up with my wife outside out of the classroom buildings on campus. She gave me the name and I simply could not recall where it was. I think that means my sabbatical is going well.
September 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Went to a home football game last night and had to meet up with my wife outside out of the classroom buildings on campus. She gave me the name and I simply could not recall where it was. I think that means my sabbatical is going well.
I like this observation about flipped learning (made by Russian scholar Irina Gnutova) very much. Flipped learning doesn't take sides in the "lecture v. active learning" wars. Instead it tries to get both approaches to coexist harmoniously and play to the strengths of each.
September 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I like this observation about flipped learning (made by Russian scholar Irina Gnutova) very much. Flipped learning doesn't take sides in the "lecture v. active learning" wars. Instead it tries to get both approaches to coexist harmoniously and play to the strengths of each.
Oh, the irony that every single one of the research papers I'd found that deal with flipped learning and student equity and access, are behind paywalls.
September 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Oh, the irony that every single one of the research papers I'd found that deal with flipped learning and student equity and access, are behind paywalls.
A friend asked me last night, as a trivia question, what is the smallest number whose spelling has the letters in alphabetical order. My answer: e.
September 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A friend asked me last night, as a trivia question, what is the smallest number whose spelling has the letters in alphabetical order. My answer: e.
Proposed definition for active learning: Activities done by students in an organized group setting that instantiate deliberate practice.
September 3, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Proposed definition for active learning: Activities done by students in an organized group setting that instantiate deliberate practice.
Didn't expect this to come up in my JSTOR search for papers about flipped instruction. Sadly, it didn't make it through my exclusion criteria. #badminton
September 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Didn't expect this to come up in my JSTOR search for papers about flipped instruction. Sadly, it didn't make it through my exclusion criteria. #badminton
Reminder that there is no such thing as "college algebra".
September 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Reminder that there is no such thing as "college algebra".
Reading through papers on flipped learning, I found this citation to one of my early publications -- with my esteemed co-author "G. Valley". 😂
August 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reading through papers on flipped learning, I found this citation to one of my early publications -- with my esteemed co-author "G. Valley". 😂
Today at Intentional Academia: I realized that the Clarify process for email was missing a big piece, and I think I know how to fix it -- giving us a Grand Unified Theory of Academic Email.
intentionalacademia.substack.com/p/a-grand-un...
intentionalacademia.substack.com/p/a-grand-un...
A Grand Unified Theory of academic email
Filling in the missing links in the Clarify process
intentionalacademia.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Today at Intentional Academia: I realized that the Clarify process for email was missing a big piece, and I think I know how to fix it -- giving us a Grand Unified Theory of Academic Email.
intentionalacademia.substack.com/p/a-grand-un...
intentionalacademia.substack.com/p/a-grand-un...
New piece from me at @timeshighered.bsky.social on a little different subject: What I learned from going on six different campus visits with my college-bound kids.
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/every...
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/every...
‘Every faculty member should go on campus tours’
When one university professor went undercover to find out how different colleges welcome prospective students and their parents, he found out what institutions should, and should not, do in their visi...
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New piece from me at @timeshighered.bsky.social on a little different subject: What I learned from going on six different campus visits with my college-bound kids.
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/every...
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/every...
Journals that charge you to access articles that are 10+ years old can go frak themselves
August 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Journals that charge you to access articles that are 10+ years old can go frak themselves
Reviewing flipped learning research from 10 years ago, one of the main criticisms was that students didn't have a way to ask questions about pre-class assignments while outside of class. AI has definitely changed that up a little, hasn't it?
August 26, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reviewing flipped learning research from 10 years ago, one of the main criticisms was that students didn't have a way to ask questions about pre-class assignments while outside of class. AI has definitely changed that up a little, hasn't it?
This morning I completed an initial read-through of the case study interviews submitted for the second edition of _Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty_. I'm absolutely stoked by what I've received. Some fun facts: (1/4)
August 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This morning I completed an initial read-through of the case study interviews submitted for the second edition of _Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher Education Faculty_. I'm absolutely stoked by what I've received. Some fun facts: (1/4)
New at Intentional Academia: Who says you have the right to have purpose, productivity, and meaning in higher education? Today I present and argue for a principle that goes to the heart of it, that I call the Law of the Whole Person.
The Law of the Whole Person
An underlying axiom for intentionality
intentionalacademia.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New at Intentional Academia: Who says you have the right to have purpose, productivity, and meaning in higher education? Today I present and argue for a principle that goes to the heart of it, that I call the Law of the Whole Person.
Slightly diminish a band:
Just-OK Funk Railroad
Just-OK Funk Railroad
Slightly diminish a band:
Bruce Springsteen and The E Lane Band
Bruce Springsteen and The E Lane Band
Slightly diminish a band:
Third Eye Myopic
Third Eye Myopic
August 14, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
Just-OK Funk Railroad
Just-OK Funk Railroad
I'll be speaking this Thursday at Dunwoody College in Minneapolis, about a subject very close to me: Habits of productivity that promote purpose and meaning for higher ed people. Here is the resource page I'll be using, with links and other goodies: docs.google.com/docu...
Taking Charge resource page
Taking Charge Resource page Curated by Robert Talbert, Ph.D. Photo by Thomas Kelley on Unsplash Contact information Email: rt@rtalbert.org Website: http://rtalbert.org Social: Twitter | LinkedIn | BlueSky For information on speaking and workshops: https://www.rtalbert.org/speaking Mater...
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August 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I'll be speaking this Thursday at Dunwoody College in Minneapolis, about a subject very close to me: Habits of productivity that promote purpose and meaning for higher ed people. Here is the resource page I'll be using, with links and other goodies: docs.google.com/docu...