"When the pandemic began I got a few emails from colleagues which said, 'we ought to do something for the pandemic'. Well I’m no good at making masks, I certainly don’t know how to make a vaccine, but I do know how to teach people how to build businesses." bit.ly/hacking4recove…

"There’s a sort of glamour associated with keeping a tiger, but also some underlying insinuations about their exoticism." Harvard University instructor Zoë Eddy discusses Netflix's #TigerKing –– and how the show contributes to Orientalism –– in her new class. bit.ly/megafauna–amon…

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"Technology can be used for utopian or dystopian means, and what determines the ends of those means are the context the technology resides within, and the intentions of the person wielding it." bit.ly/cultures-of-co…

In ‘Drawing: Who’s Telling the Story?’, Johns Hopkins University adjunct instructor Tae Hwang examines the historical usage of propaganda, bias in contemporary media, and data (mis)representation across a variety of visual mediums: #innovativecourses bit.ly/drawing-jhu

"In my classroom, I want my students to feel as if they are in a safe place to fail. I believe in the power of Plan Bs, in pivoting and transforming." Emerson College's LuAnn Reeb shares the philosophy behind #E3: Emerson's Entrepreneurial Experience. bit.ly/emerson-ee

What do spike fiddles, singing garbage trucks, and Gobi Desert dust storms have in common? To Oberlin College instructor Kip Hutchins, they are evidence of the cultural exchange practiced between contiguous nations in Northeast Asia. #innovativecourses bit.ly/oberlin-music-…

The latest from Campuswire's list of the #MostInnovativeCourses in 2020. Oberlin OES Oberlin News Oberlin College Oberlin College Libraries

How can you make your online class more interactive and engaging for students experiencing #ZoomFatigue? We have some ideas: #academicchatter #highered #distancelearning bit.ly/virtual-class-…

"This planet, this place that we call home, has an extraordinary history prior to the 18th century that is so much more than books have taught us to believe." Caltech instructor Sandy Rodriguez shares how she brings color into her virtual classroom: bit.ly/visual-narrati…

"I believe that the best children’s media works on two levels simultaneously: it has to be something that kids are going to respond to, but it also has to be something that their older siblings, or even their parents, would like as well." bit.ly/childrens-media

Read this interview with E-P's Dr. Julie Dobrow about her Creating Children's Media course!

"It’s important to examine the concept of the traditional ‘nuclear’ family that we see so often portrayed in white America, to better understand the systems of oppression at work." – Rice University instructor Virginia Thomas #innovativecourses bit.ly/optics-of-kins…