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/
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.
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 😂
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.
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
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". 😂
Working on a talk next week on faculty productivity and I happen to really like this slide that I just put together.
August 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Working on a talk next week on faculty productivity and I happen to really like this slide that I just put together.
Here's the teaching I aspire to: A basketball class that meets the same time as my workout. Been watching these guys get better all semester. The prof talks sometimes about rules + strategies, but mostly he stays in the middle, observing and keeping things moving, mostly just letting them play.
April 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Here's the teaching I aspire to: A basketball class that meets the same time as my workout. Been watching these guys get better all semester. The prof talks sometimes about rules + strategies, but mostly he stays in the middle, observing and keeping things moving, mostly just letting them play.
Another anachronism from the first edition of my flipped learning book! Does anybody remember the Common Core standards? And how they were the hill everyone in the edu-sphere wanted to die on, circa 2016?
March 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Another anachronism from the first edition of my flipped learning book! Does anybody remember the Common Core standards? And how they were the hill everyone in the edu-sphere wanted to die on, circa 2016?
In the email workshop, I gave several suggestions that I know from the past have not been well received by academic types. Somehow, people this time seemed OK with those but pushed back against me saying that Slack, Zoom Chat, etc. are the worst and should be shut down.
February 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In the email workshop, I gave several suggestions that I know from the past have not been well received by academic types. Somehow, people this time seemed OK with those but pushed back against me saying that Slack, Zoom Chat, etc. are the worst and should be shut down.
Friday #bass love for these two beauties: Lakland Skyline 55-02 on the left, Ibanez SRF705 fretless on the right. They've been on the shelf for a while but been using them all week for practice and rehearsals. Might be my go-to pair as gig season ramps up.
February 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Friday #bass love for these two beauties: Lakland Skyline 55-02 on the left, Ibanez SRF705 fretless on the right. They've been on the shelf for a while but been using them all week for practice and rehearsals. Might be my go-to pair as gig season ramps up.
Do y'all remember MOOCs? And the great MOOC scare of 2014? The first edition of my flipped learning book (published 2017) remembers. #writing
February 20, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Do y'all remember MOOCs? And the great MOOC scare of 2014? The first edition of my flipped learning book (published 2017) remembers. #writing
The "delete" option only comes up on schema that are NOT copied. If there are duplicates present, the only option available is... to copy them.
February 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The "delete" option only comes up on schema that are NOT copied. If there are duplicates present, the only option available is... to copy them.
When copying assignment from one section of a course to another on Blackboard, it copies the assignment, *then* duplicates the grading schema it uses, and you cannot delete the dupes from the "Manage Schema" panel. So these unused schema just pile up.
Why does Blackboard hate alternative grading?
Why does Blackboard hate alternative grading?
February 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
When copying assignment from one section of a course to another on Blackboard, it copies the assignment, *then* duplicates the grading schema it uses, and you cannot delete the dupes from the "Manage Schema" panel. So these unused schema just pile up.
Why does Blackboard hate alternative grading?
Why does Blackboard hate alternative grading?
I have a slide for this in my keynote talk on grades:
February 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I have a slide for this in my keynote talk on grades:
Sharing this today with my discrete math students who are getting their first skill exam back. For many this is their first time in an alt-graded class with reattempts on things like exams. Key message: This isn't the end - you are currently in a feedback loop. Source: zenhabits.net/the-he...
February 3, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Sharing this today with my discrete math students who are getting their first skill exam back. For many this is their first time in an alt-graded class with reattempts on things like exams. Key message: This isn't the end - you are currently in a feedback loop. Source: zenhabits.net/the-he...
I'm finally moving my music gear out of my home office and into a dedicated practice space/studio, and today is move-in day, so here is a family photo.
Possible downside, no more basses on the wall in Zoom meeting backgrounds.
Possible downside, no more basses on the wall in Zoom meeting backgrounds.
January 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I'm finally moving my music gear out of my home office and into a dedicated practice space/studio, and today is move-in day, so here is a family photo.
Possible downside, no more basses on the wall in Zoom meeting backgrounds.
Possible downside, no more basses on the wall in Zoom meeting backgrounds.
Maybe my favorite slide I've ever made for a talk. This was from a talk about active learning in 2023 and it's still just as true.
January 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Maybe my favorite slide I've ever made for a talk. This was from a talk about active learning in 2023 and it's still just as true.
In (3), "has no meaning to" means you get to this point in the Clarify loop and the email is not only unsolicited, but it is not actionable, contains no reference material to file away, and is not something for a Someday/Maybe list.
January 30, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In (3), "has no meaning to" means you get to this point in the Clarify loop and the email is not only unsolicited, but it is not actionable, contains no reference material to file away, and is not something for a Someday/Maybe list.
Grateful for this. I'll be using the time to power through the big additions to the second edition of _Flipped Learning: A Guide For Higher Education Faculty_.
I still might become a desert hermit anyway, it sounds nice.
I still might become a desert hermit anyway, it sounds nice.
January 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Grateful for this. I'll be using the time to power through the big additions to the second edition of _Flipped Learning: A Guide For Higher Education Faculty_.
I still might become a desert hermit anyway, it sounds nice.
I still might become a desert hermit anyway, it sounds nice.
This is from an actual article in Inside Higher Ed today. Does the author realize that they answered their own question?
January 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is from an actual article in Inside Higher Ed today. Does the author realize that they answered their own question?
Another anachronism, but I feel like I was ahead of my time on this one.
January 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Another anachronism, but I feel like I was ahead of my time on this one.