Peter Felten
@peterfelten.bsky.social
Center for Engaged Learning at Elon U. Fascinated by students, faculty, learning, relationships, well-being, and change in higher education.
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Drew Koch: Relationships are the most important feature of successful innovation! Harnessing relationship-rich learning environments can result in transformative change, inspired by the work of @peterfelten.bsky.social, Leo Lambert, @isisartzevega.bsky.social, and Oscar Miranda Tapia. #Gardner25
October 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Drew Koch: Relationships are the most important feature of successful innovation! Harnessing relationship-rich learning environments can result in transformative change, inspired by the work of @peterfelten.bsky.social, Leo Lambert, @isisartzevega.bsky.social, and Oscar Miranda Tapia. #Gardner25
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Celebrating (wooooohoooo!) the release of my new book, Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom (@oupress.bsky.social) with a refreshed website. Find info & bonus open access materials on the Books page:
jessamynneuhaus.com/books
jessamynneuhaus.com/books
Books by Jessamyn Neuhaus — Jessamyn Neuhaus
Scholarship of teaching and learning...with a side of snark
jessamynneuhaus.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Celebrating (wooooohoooo!) the release of my new book, Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom (@oupress.bsky.social) with a refreshed website. Find info & bonus open access materials on the Books page:
jessamynneuhaus.com/books
jessamynneuhaus.com/books
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Historians - as you think about the new semester, consider this first-day exercise as a way to get conversation going about what historians *actually* do, and the context within which we do it. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
Making the First Day Matter – Cate Denial
catherinedenial.org
July 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Historians - as you think about the new semester, consider this first-day exercise as a way to get conversation going about what historians *actually* do, and the context within which we do it. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
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Excited to see this one out! I got to read an advance copy and it is a great read. Kudos @dgooblar.bsky.social!
July 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Excited to see this one out! I got to read an advance copy and it is a great read. Kudos @dgooblar.bsky.social!
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I'm excited to see this article with @peterfelten.bsky.social published in Change: "Learning and Teaching with AI". We draw on three 'big' books on AI and link them to, among other things, discussion of Kapur's ideas of productive & unproductive failure & success www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Learning and Teaching with AI
Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 57, No. 3, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 3, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I'm excited to see this article with @peterfelten.bsky.social published in Change: "Learning and Teaching with AI". We draw on three 'big' books on AI and link them to, among other things, discussion of Kapur's ideas of productive & unproductive failure & success www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I've started explicitly addressing some of what's described in this article as I go on my merry way, institution to institution insisting that we can and must continue to teach writing. There's two main risks. Both are real. 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I've started explicitly addressing some of what's described in this article as I go on my merry way, institution to institution insisting that we can and must continue to teach writing. There's two main risks. Both are real. 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
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Highly recommend this piece by D. Graham Burnett that really grapples with the fact that LLMs can produce an incredibly convincing simulation of human thought, but also why we can't treat the simulation as the same was what happens when humans think. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.
www.newyorker.com
April 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Highly recommend this piece by D. Graham Burnett that really grapples with the fact that LLMs can produce an incredibly convincing simulation of human thought, but also why we can't treat the simulation as the same was what happens when humans think. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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In response to my read of @allisonpugh.bsky.social 's 'The Last Human Job,' I land on a campaign slogan: relationship-building is evidence-based practice. A reminder of @peterfelten.bsky.social's relationship-rich education, that teaching and learning is inherently social.
pcad.edu/ctl/relation...
pcad.edu/ctl/relation...
Relationship-building IS evidence-based practice. - Pennsylvania College of Art & Design
Recently, I finished a book called The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World, by Allison Pugh. In it, Pugh focuses on what she calls ‘connective labor’ (the work of helping ot...
pcad.edu
April 17, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In response to my read of @allisonpugh.bsky.social 's 'The Last Human Job,' I land on a campaign slogan: relationship-building is evidence-based practice. A reminder of @peterfelten.bsky.social's relationship-rich education, that teaching and learning is inherently social.
pcad.edu/ctl/relation...
pcad.edu/ctl/relation...
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I love this - confronting low attendance and disengement by making students feel like they matter rather than jumping to the-lecture-is-dead or banning recordings.
#AcademicSky
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/not-a...
#AcademicSky
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/not-a...
Not all students want to fit in, but every student wants to matter
Making students feel they matter can dramatically improve lecture attendance. Here are ways to do it
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I love this - confronting low attendance and disengement by making students feel like they matter rather than jumping to the-lecture-is-dead or banning recordings.
#AcademicSky
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/not-a...
#AcademicSky
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/not-a...
New exhibit on campus about US & UK propaganda posters from world wars, curated by a fab Elon University student. Which of these seems most appropriate for today?
March 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New exhibit on campus about US & UK propaganda posters from world wars, curated by a fab Elon University student. Which of these seems most appropriate for today?
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Have you heard about the virtual gathering for #EducationalDevelopers #EdDevs? We are especially interested in platforming presenters who are not typically lead presenter. This is your time to shine #InCommunity #SoTL #SoED! #Gather2Resist25
bit.ly/VirtualGathe...
bit.ly/VirtualGathe...
March 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Have you heard about the virtual gathering for #EducationalDevelopers #EdDevs? We are especially interested in platforming presenters who are not typically lead presenter. This is your time to shine #InCommunity #SoTL #SoED! #Gather2Resist25
bit.ly/VirtualGathe...
bit.ly/VirtualGathe...
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Today on the podcast, another Take It or Leave It panel! Three amazing guests -- @liznorell.bsky.social, @bbarre.bsky.social, and Bryan Dewsbury -- discuss recent hot takes on teaching and learning. It's artificial binaries and deep discussion! intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...
Take It or Leave It with Liz Norell, Betsy Barre, and Bryan Dewsbury - Intentional Teaching
We’re back with another Take It or Leave It panel. I invited three colleagues whose work and thinking I admire very much to come on the show and to compress their complex and nuanced thoughts on teach...
intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com
March 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today on the podcast, another Take It or Leave It panel! Three amazing guests -- @liznorell.bsky.social, @bbarre.bsky.social, and Bryan Dewsbury -- discuss recent hot takes on teaching and learning. It's artificial binaries and deep discussion! intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/epis...
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I had the best time chatting with Christopher Richmann for the Professors Talk Pedagogy podcast. You can listen in at this link! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
Kindness in the Academy with Catherine Denial
Podcast Episode · Professors Talk Pedagogy · 02/19/2025 · 42m
podcasts.apple.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I had the best time chatting with Christopher Richmann for the Professors Talk Pedagogy podcast. You can listen in at this link! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
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@mirjamglessmer.bsky.social I think this links well to our work on what makes students trust teachers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
@mirjamglessmer.bsky.social I think this links well to our work on what makes students trust teachers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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For over 20 years, I've been at schools affiliated w the Council of Independent Colleges; in my experience, CIC has been an unflinching advocate for higher education. So I'm unsurprised, but still heartened, to see this from CIC president Marjorie Hass today. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
February 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
For over 20 years, I've been at schools affiliated w the Council of Independent Colleges; in my experience, CIC has been an unflinching advocate for higher education. So I'm unsurprised, but still heartened, to see this from CIC president Marjorie Hass today. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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My new book is here! In this book I draw upon my research with students and educators to examine how we might find meaningful ways to be critical in contemporary times. The book considers some ways we might enact a relational critical practice
February 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
My new book is here! In this book I draw upon my research with students and educators to examine how we might find meaningful ways to be critical in contemporary times. The book considers some ways we might enact a relational critical practice
Can we change the quality and status of teaching in higher education? @joniuzzini.bsky.social and I explore that with insights from books by @xueliwang.bsky.social, Mary Wright, & Corbin Campbell. Our answer: only if we do this together. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QZXTN...
Changing the Quality and Status of Teaching in Higher Education
Published in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning (Vol. 57, No. 1, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Can we change the quality and status of teaching in higher education? @joniuzzini.bsky.social and I explore that with insights from books by @xueliwang.bsky.social, Mary Wright, & Corbin Campbell. Our answer: only if we do this together. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/QZXTN...
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New on the UVA Teaching Hub: A collection of resources on the use of self-study to reflect on and document one's teaching, curated by Cynthia Korpan from the U. of Victoria. teaching.virginia.edu/collections/...
Self-Study for Teaching Documentation — UVA Teaching Hub
<p>How do you successfully document your teaching? In this collection, you will explore self-study approaches that provide you with an authentic representation of your teaching based on evidence of wh...
teaching.virginia.edu
January 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
New on the UVA Teaching Hub: A collection of resources on the use of self-study to reflect on and document one's teaching, curated by Cynthia Korpan from the U. of Victoria. teaching.virginia.edu/collections/...
These will be excellent -- Michael Reder, Bryan Dewsbury, and Mays Imad are amazing individually and together.
📣 Three free and exciting upcoming sessions that we hope would be of interest! Note: separate registrations.
👉 'Teaching as Intentional Process & Critical Practice: A Syllabus Workshop' by Michael Reder.
21/12/2025
5-7 pm Cairo/ 3-5 pm UTC/10 am-12 pm ET.
Register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
👉 'Teaching as Intentional Process & Critical Practice: A Syllabus Workshop' by Michael Reder.
21/12/2025
5-7 pm Cairo/ 3-5 pm UTC/10 am-12 pm ET.
Register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Teaching as Intentional Process & Critical Practice: A Syllabus Workshop - Michael Reder. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Teaching as Intentional Process & Critical Practice: A Syllabus Workshop - Michael Reder. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joi...
us06web.zoom.us
January 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
These will be excellent -- Michael Reder, Bryan Dewsbury, and Mays Imad are amazing individually and together.
So much fun to talk with @bonni208.bsky.social & Kassidy Puckett about relationship-rich education at scale. 1-on-1 interactions are great, but what about teaching dozens or hundreds of students? We talk new research on Teaching in Higher Ed @tihe.bsky.social: teachinginhighered.com/podcast/rela...
Relationship-Rich Education at Scale, with Peter Felten + Kassidy Puckett – Teaching in Higher Ed
Peter Felten + Kassidy Puckett share about relationship-rich education at scale on episode 551 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
teachinginhighered.com
January 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
So much fun to talk with @bonni208.bsky.social & Kassidy Puckett about relationship-rich education at scale. 1-on-1 interactions are great, but what about teaching dozens or hundreds of students? We talk new research on Teaching in Higher Ed @tihe.bsky.social: teachinginhighered.com/podcast/rela...
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my 75+ text OER Annotated Bibliography on Belonging in Education is live! it's the academic foundation underpinning my sabbatical Belonging Project: bonstewart.com/belonging/th...
if you know of a book/paper on belonging that would enrich this collection, let me know :)
if you know of a book/paper on belonging that would enrich this collection, let me know :)
belonging: an annotated bibliography
What does it mean, to belong? How do belonging and not belonging get experienced/expressed in learning contexts? In networks and communities?I have been teaching for nearly three decades, learning for...
bonstewart.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
my 75+ text OER Annotated Bibliography on Belonging in Education is live! it's the academic foundation underpinning my sabbatical Belonging Project: bonstewart.com/belonging/th...
if you know of a book/paper on belonging that would enrich this collection, let me know :)
if you know of a book/paper on belonging that would enrich this collection, let me know :)
Powerful, inspiring new book by Adriana Aldana, Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance. This (open access/free) book (to quote book site) introduces "a tool to challenge dominant cultural narratives & amplify marginalized voices in HE" doi.org/10.36284/cel...
Counterstory Pedagogy
Counterstory Pedagogy showcases the richness of experiences and self-reflection that result from engaging students in counterstory letter writing.
doi.org
December 18, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Powerful, inspiring new book by Adriana Aldana, Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance. This (open access/free) book (to quote book site) introduces "a tool to challenge dominant cultural narratives & amplify marginalized voices in HE" doi.org/10.36284/cel...
Join @kiftsally.bsky.social and many, many other brilliant colleagues at this online conference in June!
👇 #Excited 2 joint keynote w @peterfelten.bsky.social
🌏 #OxfordBrookes Internat T&L Conf 2025
#AcademicAdvising: Nurturing the will to learn🫶
🗓️18-19 June 25
👏AND
19 June #Online #Open2All
Call for subs:
🎯 By 31/06/25
💻 tinyurl.com/3pt7w3yv
@profsallybrown.bsky.social
@herdjournal.bsky.social
🌏 #OxfordBrookes Internat T&L Conf 2025
#AcademicAdvising: Nurturing the will to learn🫶
🗓️18-19 June 25
👏AND
19 June #Online #Open2All
Call for subs:
🎯 By 31/06/25
💻 tinyurl.com/3pt7w3yv
@profsallybrown.bsky.social
@herdjournal.bsky.social
Oxford Brookes University International Teaching and Learning Conference 2025 - Oxford Brookes University
The Oxford Centre for Academic Enhancement and Development (OCAED) Oxford Brookes University International Teaching and Learning Conference.
tinyurl.com
December 18, 2024 at 2:24 PM
Join @kiftsally.bsky.social and many, many other brilliant colleagues at this online conference in June!
Kassidy Puckett & I analyzed ~2000 faculty responses about 'what works' to build classroom relationships with/among HE students. We find 4 main categories: (1) empathy, (2) collaboration/group work, (3) individual interactions, (4) personal stories. www.centerforengagedlearning.org/what-works-w...
“What Works” When Building Educational Relationships?
Faculty mentioned empathy, collaboration, individual interactions with students, and sharing personal stories helps build relationships.
www.centerforengagedlearning.org
December 17, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Kassidy Puckett & I analyzed ~2000 faculty responses about 'what works' to build classroom relationships with/among HE students. We find 4 main categories: (1) empathy, (2) collaboration/group work, (3) individual interactions, (4) personal stories. www.centerforengagedlearning.org/what-works-w...