Researcher and author Sarah Rose Cavanagh opened the Ball State Teaching and Technology Summit with “Hope in a Time of Monsters: Supporting Student and Faculty Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge.” Dr. Cavanagh’s work on compassionate challenge focuses on cultivating learning and living environments characterized by compassion, and guiding students into practices that encourage challenge, helping them face their fears in an encouraging, safe, and even playful way.
This week, Cheri Madewell, director of instructional consultation, interviews Dr. Cavanagh about points from her book, Mind Over Monsters: Supporting Youth Mental Health with Compassionate Challenge. Check out Mind Over Monsters: An Interview with Author Sarah Rose Cavanagh on Compassionate Challenge on the blog. If you missed Dr. Cavanagh’s keynote, you can find a recording of it and all the summit sessions on the event page.
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The Division of Online and Strategic Learning provides support and assessment for technology-enhanced teaching and learning for on-campus, online, and blended courses and programs. Our aim is to establish an institute of good practice that all faculty will find useful, formidable, and essential to their aspirations of excellence in teaching.