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Podcast: Instructional Ecology
Episode: A Story of Failure
Description: Welcome to our first of the failure stories this season. We're offering the chance to faculty and staff to tell their experiences with failure in higher education to make visible the experience and after-effects of failure. When students hear stories about those who are successful and understand that success is far more complex than it appears, they have the chance to gain perspective when they face failure.Our first story is told by Public Speaking professor Elena Martinez-Vidal. She tells the story of a presentation she gave that fell far, far short of her...