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Instructional Ecology

A community college is such a complex and living ecosystem. This podcast picks up the webs that should be connecting us and tends to the ecology of our college that binds us in our shared mission of teaching the community. What do you teach? How do you teach it? How could we learn from each other? Created by the Center for Teaching Excellence, Instructional Ecology is created about and for the teaching community at Midlands Technical College in Columbia, South Carolina but can be relevant to and inspiring to anyone teaching in any community.

The End

11 mins; August 13, 2025

The End of the Beginning

66 hours 32 mins; July 24, 2025

Reaching Out, Reaching Back

48 mins; July 10, 2025

I Am Beginning: Becoming a Professor

30 mins; June 26, 2025

Everybody on Board

59 mins; June 12, 2025

I Am Beginning: A Plant-Based Lifestyle

50 mins; May 29, 2025

Opening the Door

67 hours 28 mins; May 08, 2025

I Am Beginning: Learning German

62 hours 39 mins; April 24, 2025

Zen and the Art of Beginning

55 mins; April 10, 2025

I Am Beginning: A Small Market Farm

57 mins; March 27, 2025

Beginner in Chief

70 hours 2 mins; March 13, 2025

I Am Beginning: A Story Series

42 mins; February 27, 2025

When Beginnings Are the Mission

57 mins; February 13, 2025

Always Beginning

31 mins; January 23, 2025

Instructional Ecology: Season 5 Sneak Peak!

2 mins; September 12, 2024

Bonus: Student Perspective on Failure

45 mins; May 23, 2024

Make It New

70 hours 5 mins; May 09, 2024

Failure Growing Beautiful

69 hours 33 mins; April 25, 2024

A Story of Grief

62 hours 3 mins; April 11, 2024

Brief Failure Season Hiatus

6 mins; February 22, 2024

Loss and Grief in Higher Education

70 hours 55 mins; February 08, 2024

A Story of Failure

34 mins; January 25, 2024

Sustainable Connections: Expectations matter

5 mins; January 18, 2024

Failure and the Institution

63 hours 36 mins; January 11, 2024

A Story of Failure

41 mins; December 21, 2023

Talking Through Failure

49 mins; December 07, 2023

A Story of Failure

57 mins; November 21, 2023

Sustainable Connections: The Principles are rolling out!

4 mins; November 16, 2023

Looking Beyond the Classroom

49 mins; November 09, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Learning matters

4 mins; November 02, 2023

A Story of Failure

33 mins; October 26, 2023

Feeling Failure

61 hours 16 mins; October 12, 2023

New Conversations

50 mins; September 21, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Flourishing amidst peril

5 mins; September 14, 2023

Sustainable Connections: New Instructional Ecology season coming

3 mins; August 31, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Thinking critically and creatively

5 mins; August 10, 2023

Sustainable Connections: The FSL Common Read Next Title Announcement

2 mins; July 13, 2023

Entangled Learning

69 hours 19 mins; July 06, 2023

Bonus: A Failure Story

18 mins; June 29, 2023

Connection

61 hours 34 mins; June 22, 2023

Study

56 mins; June 08, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Pandemic connections

5 mins; June 01, 2023

Failure

57 mins; May 25, 2023

Play

64 hours 4 mins; May 11, 2023

Reflection

51 mins; April 27, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Transforming ideas for our institution

7 mins; April 20, 2023

Frustration

54 mins; April 13, 2023

Agency

39 mins; March 23, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Choosing relational teaching

5 mins; March 16, 2023

Learning to Learn

25 mins; March 09, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Instructional Ecology Season 3 sneak peek

7 mins; March 02, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Climate change, culture change

7 mins; February 23, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Deliberately guiding our culture of work

6 mins; February 02, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Enriching teaching in our community

6 mins; January 26, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Into the woods of scaled problem solving

6 mins; January 19, 2023

Sustainable Connections: Making the work visible

6 mins; January 12, 2023

The Network

61 hours 17 mins; December 13, 2022

Sustainable Connections: Institutional assumptions and jargon

6 mins; December 08, 2022

Sustainable Connections: Institutional assumptions and jargon

6 mins; December 08, 2022

Sustainable Connections: Doom, doubt, discouragement

7 mins; December 01, 2022

Sustainable Connections: Doom, doubt, discouragement

7 mins; December 01, 2022

Branches

55 mins; November 15, 2022

Branches

55 mins; November 15, 2022

Sustainable Connections: Questions of meaning and purpose

7 mins; November 10, 2022

Sustainable Connections: Questions of meaning and purpose

7 mins; November 10, 2022

Sustainable Connections: Envisioning student webs of relationships

7 mins; November 03, 2022

Sustainable Connections: Envisioning student webs of relationships

7 mins; November 03, 2022

Sustainable Connections

6 mins; October 27, 2022

Sustainable Connections

6 mins; October 27, 2022

The Ladder

59 mins; October 18, 2022

The Ladder

59 mins; October 18, 2022

The Confluence

58 mins; September 20, 2022

Episode 10: Further into the web of community.

17 mins; June 21, 2022

Episode 9: The liberation care provides.

59 mins; May 24, 2022

Episode 8: We see(k) connection.

55 mins; May 10, 2022

Episode 7: Our flow with the community.

56 mins; April 26, 2022

Episode 6: Thinking through change.

46 mins; April 12, 2022

Episode 5: Who do we become as professors?

76 hours 3 mins; March 29, 2022

Episode 4: We find our way together.

51 mins; March 08, 2022

Episode 3: What is the need?

45 mins; February 22, 2022

What we do is real.

52 mins; February 08, 2022

What we do is real.

52 mins; February 08, 2022

Bonus episode

13 mins; January 25, 2022

Bonus episode

13 mins; January 25, 2022

Episode 1: What do we bring to our students?

59 mins; January 21, 2022

Episode 1: What do we bring to our students?

59 mins; January 21, 2022

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