Your Humanity is an Asset: Instructional videos & Trauma-aware pedagogy with Karen Costa

Welcome to Episode 44 of the ThinkUDL podcast: Your Humanity is an Asset: Instructional Videos & Trauma-Aware Pedagogy with Karen Costa. Karen Costa is a writer and faculty development and online learning professional. Her book 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos came out in April of 2020, just in time to help all of us faculty who are trying to learn as much as we can about transitioning to online and hybrid formats! In this episode, part of our Summer 2020 series on UDL in online environments, Karen and I discuss what trauma-aware pedagogy is and how instructional videos can help with the effects of trauma on executive functions and self-regulation. We also talk about balancing structure and flexibility in online design and videos as conversations rather than presentations. In addition, Karen explains the Community of Inquiry (CoI) model of learning which focuses on teaching presence, social presence and cognitive presence and how videos help with each of these presences, along with creating an emotional presence as well. It is such a pleasure to have this chance to speak with Karen and learn from her insights into both trauma-aware pedagogy and how and why making instructional videos can improve any course!