The Glass Apple

Ep. 5 Leah Schneider: Building a Safe and Open Platform for Learning

Episode Summary

This episode features Leah Schneider. Leah is a Senior Instructor of Marketing at Lundquist College of Business. She is a UO Provost's Teaching Fellow and a UO Herman Award for Outstanding Online Education recipient. She teaches Marketing Management, Marketing Communications, and Marketing Value for Consumers in both asynchronous online and in-person modes.

Episode Notes

In this episode:

• Leah describes how she got into teaching and the two sides of the question, "What's going to happen today?" (1:38)
• The differences between getting students engaged in face-to-face classes vs asynchronous online classes (3:12)
• Welcoming student voices in the classroom (8:45)
• How teaching asynchronously challenged everything she knew about teaching. And how making things more accessible and transparent for online classes fit into her in-person classes.(10:38)
• How building and teaching a course online makes the pedagogical methods such as inclusivity, universal design more transparent (15:18)
• Inclusivity in design elements of the course and in the mindful aspects of teaching (22:13)
• How she is still being shaped by inclusive teaching practices and the impact it has on students (29:24)
• UO systems to cultivate community around teaching (33:17)