Resources

An early You Tube mix of submissions for "The Visions of Students Today," a project by cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch. Learners express apathy and discouragement concerning their education, but also strong desire for empowering experiences of learning as creating, exploring, risking.

A referenced study suggests that, while discussing content of one's research with students does not significantly improve instruction, there is a better way to use your research in teaching: choose forms of teaching (like inquiry-based and problem solving approaches) that "mirror the research process."

Podcast. 2014 podcast episode. You're dismayed by the job market in higher ed, and have heard of "alt-ac" (alternative academic) careers, but don't know how to begin exploring the possibilities. Sanders offers a practical set of steps toward discerning and researching the possibilities off the beaten, tenure-track, teaching path.

Podcast. In this 2013 podcast, the GradHacker podcasters are joined by three guests who discuss the prospect of #altac (alternative academic) careers for today's graduate students preparing to enter the workforce. (The hosts first discuss recent posts relating to grad-student concerns, including "Training grad students for a new scholarly landscape.")

Criteria used to identify nontraditional students: 1) enrollment patterns, 2) financial and family status, and 3) high school graduation status.

Wiebe argues that the relationship between theology and religious studies is more compicated and interrelated than most acknowledge.

Podcast: Conversation ranges from the public perception of what Religious Studies does, what to do with a RS degree, to the financial practicalities of doing postgraduate research in the UK and US today.

Podcast overview of issues related to studying religion on the web.

Great site that advocates for non-traditional students

Podcast. Doe Daughtrey talks to Kevin Whitesides about online communications technologies that provide new opportunities and challenges for the creation of alternative learning environments and how they differ in significant ways from traditional face-to-face environments.