Episode 090 Betsy Barre And Karen Costa

Today on the podcast, we’re sharing a conversation with two people who have some very useful thoughts to share about why students report an increase workload during the pandemic, while faculty report making intentional choices to scale back the work required in their fall courses. Betsy Barre is the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University, where she also teaches in the department of the study of religion. Karen Costa is a faculty developer specializing in online pedagogy and trauma-aware teaching and author of the 2020 book, 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos. We talk with them about this workload paradox during pandemic teaching, how it presents itself, where it comes from, and, perhaps most importantly, what instructors can do to mitigate it in the coming semester. Links • Betsy Barre, https://www.elizabethbarre.com/ • Karen Costa, http://www.100faculty.com/ • @betsy_barre on Twitter, https://twitter.com/betsy_barre • @karenraycosta on Twitter, https://twitter.com/karenraycosta • Enhanced Course Workload Estimator, https://cat.wfu.edu/resources/tools/estimator2/ • Jody Greene’s November 2020 Twitter thread, https://twitter.com/Jodyji/status/1329835339452538885 • “The Strange Case of the Exploding Student Workload,” Jody Green, December 13, 2020, https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/guest-post-strange-case-exploding-student-workload • “Investigation of Community of Inquiry Framework in Regard to Self-Regulation, Metacognition, and Motivation,” Selcan Kilis and Zahide Yildirim, Computers & Education, November 2018, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360131518301751