Daniel Miller

My primary training was in Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) within the context of the wider ancient Near East, but I also teach courses that examine the intersection between extremist religion and the modern-day politics of the Middle East, Central Asia and the United States. I've given a number of public presentations dealing with the religion and politics of the ancient and modern worlds.

More recently, I've been involved in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the context of "Augmented Lecturing", an innovative pedagogical method I've developed that functions through pairing conventional speech with sensory stimuli: relatively brief audio-visual excerpts, curated to target lecture points. All extraneous material is edited out of the original video and audio (through, e.g., iMovie) and excerpts are then embedded within the presentation program (e.g., Keynote, PowerPoint). Pauses in the shift between verbal and audio-visual modalities are eliminated. Modalities amplify and reinforce each other in a framework that continually links sensory stimuli to course material in order to activate areas of the brain that enhance learning and memory.