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Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAI-Aware Teaching with Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek BruffShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. It’s book release week! The ebook version of The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching publishes on July 1st, the day after this episode drops. I am very excited to have this book, co-authored with Annette Vee and Marc Watkins, out in the world! I wanted to put the spotlight on the new book, but I didn’t want to have to interview myself, so I asked my colleague and friend Stacey Johnson to interview me, Annette, and Marc about the book. Stacey and I worke...
2026-06-3046 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAI and Cognitive Offloading with Leon FurzeShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. On the podcast today, I talk with author and consultant Leon Furze about the ideas found in some of his recent writing on AI and learning. We talk about resistance as a framework for combatting cognitive offloading, the mental models that educators and students have of working with AI (and how they can lead us astray), and classroom activities that can help students build the kinds of expertise they need to use AI effectively.Episode ResourcesLeon Furze’s website...
2026-06-0244 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationSurviving Peak Higher Ed with Bryan AlexanderShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. The total number of students enrolled in US higher education institutions grew steadily in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. However that total peaked in 2011 at around 18 million students. It’s been declining ever since. You can imagine some of what that means—fewer students means less tuition, which means fewer faculty and staff and the closure of colleges and universities. US higher ed has been on the downhill across multiple measures for about 15 years now.That decline is the focus of Bryan Alexander’s new bo...
2026-05-0547 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching Math with AI with Amy Langville, Chloe Lewis, Lew Ludwig, and Kathryn Pedings-BehlingShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. A few years ago, it was pretty easy for math educators to ignore generative AI. The chatbots of 2022 and 2023 were notoriously bad at math. But that’s no longer true! Today’s frontier AI models are very good at math—to the point of proving mathematical conjectures that have been open for decades. Today on the show, I have a roundtable of math faculty sharing what AI-aware mathematics teaching looks like here in 2026. Our roundtable guests are Lew Ludwig (Denison University), Chloe Lewis (University of Wiscons...
2026-04-2157 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching Civic Engagement with Bridget Trogden, James Burns, Megan VanGorder, and Nafisa Nipun TanjeemShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. The Civic Engagement & Voting Rights Teacher Scholars program serves as an avenue for faculty to work together to create classroom teaching materials – by faculty, for faculty – to support a thriving American democracy. The Teacher Scholars are recruited and supported from across the nation to work in cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary, humanities and arts-based faculty learning communities. The Teacher Scholars design, create, and disseminate openly licensed pedagogical materials for use in college courses nationwide.Today's guests are the co-directors of the program, Bridget Trogden, dean of undergraduate education and...
2026-04-0746 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationPop Quiz on Faculty and the Law with Kent KauffmanShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In the last year, we’ve seen many stories of college and university faculty being accused by students of teaching something that the student didn’t think the instructor should be teaching. These incidents have a lot of instructors worried about teaching controversial topics—and just about any topic can be controversial these days. Previously on the podcast, we've explored pedagogical responses to the current political climate. Today, we look at our legal options.Our guest is Kent Kauffman, author of the 2024 book Navigating Choppy Waters...
2026-03-2445 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationIn-Class Writing with James SeitzShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Last November, University of Virginia English professor James Seitz offered a workshop through the UVA Center for Teaching Excellence titled “Teaching in the Age of AI: How Students Can Do All Their Writing in the Classroom.” When I saw the workshop announcement, I have to admit that my initial reaction wasn’t a positive one. Was this another call to return to the days of blue books, with high stakes essay exams depending on students being able to practice the lost art of handwriting? No! I’m exc...
2026-03-1045 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationReimagining Grading with Sharona Krinsky and Robert BosleyShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. This past December, I had the honor of being a guest on the Grading Podcast ("reimagining grading as a tool for student success") hosted by Sharona Krinsky and Robert Bosley. We had such a great conversation that I thought I would return the favor and invite Sharona and Boz on my podcast.Sharona Krinsky is the executive director of the Center for Grading Reform, a non-profit that hosts an annual conference on grading, among other things. She’s also a math instructor at California State Lo...
2026-02-2448 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationStudent-Designed AI Chatbots with Windy Frank and Sarah GibsonShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. When I heard my friend Windy Frank, an adjunct faculty at Lipscomb University here in Nashville, talk about an assignment of hers in which students designed custom AI chatbots, I was very interested. Windy teaches in the College of Bible at Lipscomb, and she asked her students to create AI chatbots based on figures in the Old Testament. Students then engaged their chatbots in conversation, asking the prophet Jonah about his biggest failure or Daniel to make up some names for the lions he famously encountered.
2026-02-1044 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationIntentional Tech Six Years Out with Derek BruffShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Last fall, I was interviewed on a podcast called Transform Your Teaching from the Cedarville University Center for Teaching and Learning. Hosts Rob McDole and Jared Pyles had me on to talk about my book Intentional Tech six year out from its publication date. I shared the Intentional Tech principles I find most relevant today, especially as higher ed continues to respond to generative AI, and I talked about what I would put in a second edition of the book were I to write one. Rob and...
2026-02-0331 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationStudents and AI Literacy with Annette VeeShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Annette Vee is an associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and co-author (with Marc Watkins and your podcast host) of the forthcoming book The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching. Annette and I met through this writing project, and I invited her on the podcast to get to know her better. Annette and I cover a lot of ground in our conversation: how computational literacy is changing in light of AI, whether there is such a thing as “AI literacy,” what she has learn...
2026-01-1338 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationEducational Technology Advice for Academic Leaders with Derek BruffShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. About a year ago, I appeared on the Ed Up Provost podcast hosted by Gregor Thuswaldner to share some educational technology advice for academic leaders. Topics included strategic planning around edtech adoption to managing innovation and organizational change to investing in faculty and staff, and I think my advice holds up well. Today, I'm sharing that interview here on the Intentional Teaching podcast feed. Whether your job title includes the word provost or not, I hope you find the conversation useful.Episode Resources
2025-12-3046 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching for Deep Learning with Ken BainShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Ken Bain was the author of What the Best College Teachers Do, a book that has helped many college educators apply the science of learning to their teaching practice. He was also the founding director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching, which is why I interviewed him in 2023 for an oral history I was producing about the CFT.Ken Bain passed away in October 2025, and I wanted to honor his legacy by sharing my full interview with him from 2023. In this episode, Ken talks...
2025-12-1652 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationEvery Student an Entrepreneur with Jeff MeadeShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. What if your college or university decided that every undergraduate student there would be an entrepreneur, not just studying entrepreneurship but doing it? That’s exactly the decision made a few years ago by the leadership at Paul Quinn College in Dallas, Texas.Paul Quinn is an HBCU with a small student body, just 700 students. This year, the college has launched a new program called Every Quinnite Is an Entrepreneur. The goal? Every student, regardless of major, launches and operates a real venture before graduation....
2025-12-0238 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTake It or Leave It with Michelle Beavers, Leo Lo, and Sara McClellanShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. I’m back with another “Take It or Leave It” panel! This one is a little different. On October 2nd, in my role as associate director of the UVA Center for Teaching Excellence, I hosted a virtual panel titled “Take It or Leave It: AI’s Role in Online Learning” featuring three fantastic UVA colleagues. The conversation went very well, and the panelists and the CTE gave me permission to share the audio from the panel here on the Intentional Teaching podcast. The panelists for this edition...
2025-11-1852 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationCareers in Educational Development with Leslie Cramblet Alvarez and Chris HakalaShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. On the show today I talk with Leslie Cramblet Alvarez and Chris Hakala, authors of the new book Understanding Educational Developers: Tales from the Center from Routledge Press. The book blends scholarship and personal narratives to explore the career trajectories of the professionals who work at CTLs. How do academics move into these careers? And what can these careers look like over time? Leslie Cramblet Alvarez is assistant vice provost and director of the Office of Teaching and Learning at the University of Denver. Chris H...
2025-11-0442 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationPeer and AI Review of Student Writing with Marit MacArthur and Anna MillsShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Today on the podcast, we learn about one initiative that offers a path forward for AI and writing instruction. It’s called the PAIRR Project, where PAIRR stands for peer and AI review and reflection. This approach takes the well-established peer review pedagogy used in writing instruction and adds a layer of AI-generated feedback on student writing. PAIRR has been developed and tested by dozens of faculty at public colleges and universities in California, and I’m excited to have two of those faculty on the podcast toda...
2025-10-1445 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationManaging Hot Moments in 2025 with Rick Moore and Bethany MorrisonShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Here in the US, the political environment is more heated than I’ve ever known it in my lifetime, and some of that heat is coming directly at higher ed and its faculty. This episode is all about managing those “hot moments” in our classes when just about any topic can be “hot.” My guests are Bethany Morrison, assistant director at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, and Rick Moore, associate director for faculty programming at the Center for Teachin...
2025-09-3047 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationDigital Accessibility with Amy LomelliniShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In this episode, we explore why digital accessibility can be so important to the student experience. My guest is Amy Lomellini, director of accessibility at Anthology, the company that makes the learning management system Blackboard. Amy teaches educational technology as an adjunct at Boise State University, and she facilitates courses on digital accessibility for the Online Learning Consortium. In our conversation, we talk about the importance of digital accessibility to students, moving away from the traditional disclosure-accommodation paradigm, AI as an assistive technology, and lots more.
2025-09-1638 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationBenchmarking Online Education with Bruce Etter and Julie UranisShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. The online education wings of most colleges and universities have changed a lot since 2020, with online units moving in from the periphery to the center of operations at most institutions. On the podcast today, we’re going to take a look at the state of online education in the United States, and to do that, we’ll make use of data from the 2025 Benchmarking Online Enterprise Survey (BOnES) conducted by UPCEA, the online and professional education association. On the show today, I talk with Bruce Etter...
2025-09-0239 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationStudy Hall with Lance Eaton, Michelle D. Miller, and David NelsonShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Today on the podcast, I'm excited to try out a new format. I'm calling it "Study Hall" since we're gathered together to discuss some interesting teaching and learning studies, with this edition's studies exploring the intersection of generative AI and education.The panelists for this edition of study hall are Lance Eaton, senior associate director of AI in teaching and learning at Northeastern University; Michelle D. Miller, professor of psychological sciences at Northern Arizona University; and David Nelson, associate director at the Center for Instructional...
2025-08-1951 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationDeveloping AI Literacy with Alex AmbroseShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Today on the podcast, we’ll get a window into how AI is affecting the teaching and learning landscape at one university, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. My guest today is Alex Ambrose, professor of the practice and director of the Lab for AI in Teaching and Learning at the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence at Notre Dame.Alex discusses Notre Dame’s recent decision to adopt Google Gemini campuswide, surveys of Notre Dame students and faculty about their changing views of generative AI...
2025-08-0539 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationDefending Higher Education with Kevin McClureShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. On two recent episodes of this podcast, we talked about an essay titled "Higher Ed Is Adrift" by Kevin McClure. In the essay, Kevin outlines some of the many attacks the current U.S. presidential administration is leveraging against higher ed, and he notes that many faculty and staff are finding their institutional leaders' responses lacking. Today on the show, I talk with Kevin McClure, who is a professor of higher education and chair of educational leadership at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, a...
2025-07-2241 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching Effectively with ChatGPT with Dan Levy and Angela Pérez AlbertosShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. I have now read a few books on the intersection of higher education teaching and generative AI, and Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT is by far my favorite. There’s no hyperbole here, just practical advice on making the most of generative AI with dozens of concrete examples from the authors and from other instructors in their network. The book was written by Dan Levy, senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and Angela Pérez Albertos, who was first a student in Dan’s class, then...
2025-07-0841 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTake It or Leave It with Stacey Johnson, Liz Norell, and Viji SathyShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. I’m back with another “Take It or Leave It” panel! I know it’s only been a couple of episodes since the last one, but there’s a lot happening in higher ed in the US right now and I find these panels helpful for making sense of it all. Once again I’ve invited three smart colleagues on the show to discuss recent op-eds that address the challenges that colleges and universities and their teaching missions are facing here in 2025. For each essay, we decide if we want t...
2025-06-2456 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching with AI Agents with Matthew Clemson, Isabelle Hesse, and Danny LiuShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Cogniti is a tool developed at the University of Sydney that instructors can use to create custom AI chatbots ("agents") for use in their teaching. Cogniti makes it easy to create a special-purpose agent, invite students to interact with the agent, and have some visibility into how students are using the agent. I have a theory that in a few years, teaching-focused custom AI chatbots are going to be standard tools available to higher education instructors. I may be wrong about that, but if it t...
2025-06-1042 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTake It or Leave It with Betsy Barre, Bryan Dewsbury, and Emily DonahoeShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Higher education in the United States has been faced with some unique challenges in 2025, largely because of actions taken by the new U.S. presidential administration. In this "Take It or Leave It" edition of the podcast, I invited three wise colleagues on the show to discuss recent op-eds that address ongoing challenges to the teaching missions of colleges and universities. For each essay, we decide if we want to Take It (that is, agree with the central thesis of the essay) or Leave It. Our judgments...
2025-05-2857 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAI-Integrated Assignments with Kiera Allison, Jamie Jirout, Spyros Simotas, & Jun WangShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. On the podcast today, I talk with four University of Virginia faculty who are serving this year as Faculty AI Guides. This provost-funded program has enlisted 51 faculty to explore potential uses of generative AI in their teaching and to share what they learn with colleagues in their departments and schools. Back in January, we invited the Faculty AI Guides to share assignments from their fall courses that thoughtfully integrated AI to support student learning. I put some of these assignments in a collection on the UVA Teaching...
2025-05-2053 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationCreative Thinking and AI with Lauren MaloneShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In this episode, I share a conversation I had recently with Lauren Malone, assistant professor of communication at the University of Tampa. I met Lauren at a conference in Tampa, where she was presenting her ongoing experiments integrating AI into her communications and media studies courses. In particular, she shared about her use of Google NotebookLM in a game studies course that focused on writing for digital games. Lauren was already on her second semester kicking the tires on NotebookLM in this course, and I wanted to...
2025-05-1339 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationIntegrating Instructional Design and Student Support with Pratima EnfieldShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Pratima Enfield is the associate dean of instructional design at the United States Naval Community College. Prior to her current position, Pratima was the executive director of online learning at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Pratima and her SAIS colleagues bridged the gap between the instructional design and student support functions that are more typically siloed in online programs. Instructional designers work with faculty and student support staff work with students, so it’s not a given that these two teams will co...
2025-04-2937 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAnnotation and Learning with Remi KalirShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Today on the podcast, I’m republishing one of my favorite interviews from Leading Lines, the podcast I hosted for the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching from 2016 to 2022. In this interview from 2022, I talk with Remi Kalir, who was (at the time) an associate professor of learning design and technology at the University of Colorado. Remi is a scholar of annotation, that simple act of adding a note to a text. Remi takes a broad view of what counts as a “note” and as a “text,” ma...
2025-04-1553 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAI Teaching Fellows with Christopher McVey and Neeza SinghShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Christopher McVey is a master lecturer in the writing program at Boston University. Neeza Singh is a senior at BU majoring in data science. Last year, the two were partnered through the BU writing program's AI Affiliate Fellowship program, giving Neeza a role in Christopher's class supporting both Christopher and his students in responsible and effective use of generative AI in writing.On this episode, I talk with Chris and Neeza about this innovative, AI-focused students-as-partners program. They share about Neeza's role in Chris' writing...
2025-04-0140 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationUndergraduate Research with Kristine Johnson and Michael RifenburgShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Kristine Johnson and Michael Rifenburg are the authors of the new book A Long View of Undergraduate Research: Alumni Perspectives on Inquiry, Belonging, and Vocation. They tracked down alumni who had participated in undergraduate research years earlier. They wanted to know what kinds of impacts these experiences had on students over the long term. What they heard from these alumni was fascinating.Kristine Johnson is an associate professor of English at Calvin University, and Michael Rifenburg is a professor of English at the University of N...
2025-03-2539 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTake It or Leave It with Liz Norell, Betsy Barre, and Bryan DewsburyShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. We’re back with another Take It or Leave It panel. I invited three colleagues whose work and thinking I admire very much to come on the show and to compress their complex and nuanced thoughts on teaching and learning into artificial binaries! The panelists for this edition of Take It or Leave It are… Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi; Betsy Barre, assistant provost and execu...
2025-03-0455 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationKeep the Faith: Learning at Play with Greg Loring-AlbrightShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Greg Loring-Albright is the designer of Keep the Faith, a storytelling game about a religion in transition and about how religious institutions change over time. Greg is also an assistant professor of game, media, and culture at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, where he teaches game design and game studies. Greg is also the co-designer of Bloc by Bloc: Uprising, a game about revolutionaries trying to liberate their city from an oppressive police state. He's a proponent of purposeful games, and I invited him o...
2025-02-1840 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationWriting, Editing, and AI with Heidi NoblesShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Back in August, I had the opportunity to hear a short presentation from Heidi Nobles, assistant professor in writing and rhetoric and director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Virginia. The presentation was part of a two-day institute on teaching and generative AI, and Heidi leveraged her background as an editor to provide a different way of thinking about working with generative AI.Heidi pointed out that when we ask ChatGPT or some other AI chatbot to polish a draft essay, we’re...
2025-02-0440 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAI as Design Accelerator with Ryan WetzelShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. How can generative AI help students develop creative and critical thinking skills? Doing means treating AI as more than a super Google search. Ryan Wetzel is manager of creative learning initiatives for Teaching and Learning with Technology at Penn State. He and his team have developed a number of structured experiences for students (and their instructors) to increase their generative AI knowhow and to use AI to help them pursue course learning goals. While the students work in teams to design board games, create hit...
2025-01-2140 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationRethinking Doctoral Education with Leonard CassutoShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Doctoral education in the United States works really well... when it works. Many doctoral students experience a significant mismatch between their career goals and the goals of their graduate programs, which is one reason completion rates for doctoral programs are so low. Why is doctoral education this broken? And what can higher education do about it? Today on the podcast, we hear some answers to those questions from Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University and author of the book The New PhD: How...
2025-01-0742 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAI Across the Curriculum with Jane SouthworthShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Today on the podcast, I’m excited to share an interview with Jane Southworth, professor and chair of geography at the University of Florida and co-chair of the committee that designed UF's "AI Across the Curriculum" program. That program was designed in 2021, two full years before the launch of ChatGPT!Jane shares about the role of artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning, in her landscape change research, and how that work get her involved in AI curriculum initiatives at UF. Jane also provides a lot of de...
2024-12-0340 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching with AI in Technical Courses with Jingjing LiShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In my new job at the University of Virginia, I recently met Jingjing Li, Andersen Alumni associate professor of commerce. Jingjing teaches business intelligence at both the undergraduate and Master’s levels, and her research interests include artificial intelligence and data analytics. She has conducted some very thoughtful experiments in her courses in using generative artificial intelligence to teach about machine learning in business analysis. In our interview, we talk about her scaffolded assignments, the metaphors her students use to describe working with generative AI, an...
2024-11-1942 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAn Oral History of the Vanderbilt Center for TeachingShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In 1986, Vanderbilt University established a new Center for Teaching, a unit that would help thousands of faculty and other instructors at Vanderbilt and across higher education develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching and learning. I’m Derek Bruff, and I worked at the CFT, as we called it, from 2005 to 2022, serving as its director for over a decade. When I left Vanderbilt, I wanted to find some way to honor the good work of the Center for Teaching. It played an imp...
2024-11-121h 36
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationSome College, No Degree with Josh SteeleShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, there are approximately 36.8 million adults in the United States under the age of 65 who have completed some college but left before obtaining a degree. How can universities meet the needs of these potential students, especially when the traditional approach to college didn’t work for them? Josh Steele is working to answer that question. Josh is the associate vice dean of digital learning at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Josh is helping to lead efforts at UT...
2024-11-0538 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationActive Learning in the Humanities with Todd Clary, Stephen Sansom, and Carolyn AslanShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. I see a lot of scholarly work on active learning in the STEM fields, but much less about active learning in the humanities. So when I read an article about active learning in a large-enrollment Greek myths course at Cornell University, I wanted to learn more.In this episode, I talk with the authors of that paper: Todd Clary, senior lecturer in classics at Cornell University; Stephen Sansom, assistant professor of classics at Florida State University; and Carolyn Aslan, senior associate director at the Center...
2024-10-2239 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching Habits of Mind with Becky MarchielShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. This episode features a conversation with another faculty colleague from my time at the University of Mississippi. Becky Marchiel is an associate professor of history there, and she teaches a very interesting history survey course. In our conversation, Becky shares how she goes about teaching the habits of mind of historians, as well as her use of labor-based grading, unessays, and classroom response systems. Episode ResourcesBecky Marchiel’s faculty pageMichael Bess on teaching with Wikipedia (from 2007)...
2024-10-0840 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching in an Election Year with Bethany MorrisonShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Listeners in the United States might have noticed that there’s a presidential election coming up, and we know that can make for a challenging teaching environment. Fortunately, I have an interview to share that addresses just this moment. Bethany Morrison is a political scientist and an assistant director at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, and she has been working with colleagues at Michigan to support faculty teaching in this election year. In the interview, Bethany shares ide...
2024-09-2439 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationImproving Teaching at the Institution Level with Lindsay MaslandShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. This is a story about institutional change. The product of that change—a new framework for assessing teaching quality now in use at Appalachian State University—is important, but the process that led to that change is just as important because it's by analyzing change processes that academic leaders can affect change on their campuses. In this episode, I talk with Lindsay Masland, interim executive director at the teaching center at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, who not only helped shape the new teaching quali...
2024-09-1839 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationNeurodivergent Students and Active Learning with Mariel PfeiferShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Today on the podcast I talk with Mariel Pfeifer, assistant professor of biology. Mariel started at Ole Miss just about a year ago as part of a cluster hire of three STEM faculty who are on the tenure track at UM doing disciplinary based education research. I was excited to hear Mariel was coming to the university because I was already familiar with her work. Back in the spring of 2023, I lead a faculty learning community on the topic of active learning in large enrollment STEM courses...
2024-09-0340 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationCulturally Responsive Teaching with Emily AffolterShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Emily Affolter teaches in the PhD program in sustainability education at Prescott College in Arizona. Her students come from all different professions, some even already have PhDs. They’re in the program to pursue what Emily describes as “social and environmental justice as enacted in teaching, learning, and leading.” How do Emily and her colleagues meet these diverse students where they are and help them achieve their goals? That’s where culturally responsive teaching comes in, which Emily describes as reimagining a class with equity at the center.
2024-08-2039 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationStudent Agency and Rhetorical Triangles with Paul HanstedtShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Back in February 2024, as part of a slow read of my book Intentional Tech, I reached out to Paul Hanstedt, author of Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World, to talk about the "rhetorical triangle" as a way for thinking intentionally about writing assignments and other types of assignments. We had a fantastic conversation that I shared on Patreon at the time, and I’m now very glad to share the interview here on the main podcast feed.Paul is the vice chancellor fo...
2024-08-0642 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationHigh Structure Course Design with Justin ShafferShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. During these late summer episodes of the podcast, I’m sharing some interviews I conducted in much cooler times. Back in February as part of a slow read of my book Intentional Tech, I talked with Justin Shaffer, teaching professor in chemical and biological engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. Chapter three of the book deals with using technology to make visible “thin slices” of student learning. I reached out to Justin, who is also associate dean of undergraduate studies at Mines, to learn about some of the...
2024-07-3042 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationMultimodal AI Projects with Emily BruffShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. A few episodes ago, I talked with Marc Watkins of the University of Mississippi about the many ways that generative AI is beginning to intersect with student learning. Marc noted that the newest versions of ChatGPT and similar tools are no longer just text generators, but multimodal in nature. That is, they can work with text and images and audio and in some cases video, too. To help us better understand what roles these AI tools might play in multimodal assignments, this episode features an i...
2024-07-2327 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationDaybreak: Learning at Play with Kerry Whittaker and Matteo MenapaceShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. This episode is all about games as learning experiences, with not one but two interviews about the 2023 cooperative board game Daybreak, a game about climate action. Daybreak puts players in the roles of world powers building the technologies and societies needed for a warming planet. The goal of the game is to cut carbon emissions before it gets too hot or too many communities are put into crisis. You’ll hear from Kerry Whittaker, assistant professor of coastal and marine environmental science at Maine Maritime Aca...
2024-07-161h 06
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationNeurodivergent Learners and Earners with Holly TilbrookShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. This spring Holly Tilbrook presented as part of a panel titled “Neurodivergent Learners (and Earners!) in Postsecondary Education” at the UPCEA annual conference. Holly is a deputy director of the Academic Centres at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education. That institute offers a variety of postsecondary learning opportunities for students of all ages, from onsite weekend courses to online certificate programs to degree programs offered across various modalities. Many of Holly’s students aren’t just learners, they’re earners, in the sense that they are act...
2024-07-0238 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTake It or Leave It with Stacey Johnson, Emily Donahoe, and Lance EatonShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Inspired by a recent episode of the American Birding Podcast, this episode of Intentional Teaching features a "Take It or Leave It" Panel. I spent some quality time with recent essays published online looking for arguments about teaching and learning in higher education that would be open to debate. For each of these hot takes, I asked our three panelists to take it (that is, agree with the hot take) or leave it (disagree), forcing them into an artificial binary that, I think, led to some robust...
2024-06-1847 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAI's Impact on Learning with Marc WatkinsShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Worried about your students asking ChatGPT to write their essays for them? That's so 2023. Generative AI technology is changing fast, and now these tools have the potential to disrupt many different aspects of learning, from reading to notetaking to feedback. To help us explore those changes, this episode features a conversation with Marc Watkins, lecturer in writing and rhetoric and academic innovation fellow at the University of Mississippi. Marc's blog, Rhetorica, is a must read, and his workshops on teaching and AI for UM faculty...
2024-06-0440 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationCurriculum Mapping with Jennifer M. Harrison and Vickie Rey WilliamsShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Jennifer M. Harrison and Vickey Rey Williams are the authors of the book A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Creating a Collaborative, Transformative, and Learner-Centered Curriculum, published by Routledge in late 2023. Jennifer is the associate director for assessment at the Faculty Development Center at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (or UMBC), and Vickie is a senior lecturer in education at UMBC.In their book and in our conversation, they share the ways that a curriculum map can take the learning design principles we often use...
2024-05-2141 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationStudent Performance Feedback with Jeff Przybylo and Thomas FisherShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. With the advent of easy-to-use generative AI like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, many instructors have been looking into alternatives to traditional written essays, which are often easy to write with AI assistance. Last fall, I led a webinar on authentic assignments for GoReact, an educational technology company that provides video feedback tool that can be really useful for certain authentic assignments, particularly ones that are performance-based. I asked GoReact if they could connect me with faculty who they knew to be using their platform intentionally, and they...
2024-05-0737 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationLearning Assistants with Katie Johnson and Katarya Johnson-WilliamsShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In a Learning Assistants program, students who did well in a course in the past are invited to come back to attend class and help current students learn the course material. I knew these programs could be effective from my time at Vanderbilt University. Last fall when I was at the POD Network conference, I just happened to sit at a table during a session next to Katie Johnson, associate professor of mathematics at Florida Gulf Coast University. I learned that not only did Katie lead a...
2024-04-3040 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationUniversal Design for Learning at Scale with Thomas J. TobinShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for improving learning for all learners based on the science of how humans learn. It involves providing learners with multiple means of engagement, representation, action, and expression. We’ve mentioned the framework on the show from time to time, and I thought it was time to dig in a little deeper. Naturally, I thought of inviting Thomas J. Tobin on the podcast. Tom helped found the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Teaching, Learning, & Mentoring, and he is an...
2024-04-2340 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAI-Enhanced Learning with Pary FassihiShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. I talked recently with Pary Fassihi, senior lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University, about her use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Adobe Firefly in her writing and research courses. I’ve known Pary a long time… She’s in my first book, Teaching with Classroom Response Systems, about using clickers in the language instruction courses she was teaching back around 2007. These days, she still teaches some language courses, but most of her teaching is for the writing program at Bos...
2024-04-1640 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAI Learning Assistants with Sravanti KanthetiShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. We know that having students go to the free version of ChatGPT and ask it questions about course content can lead to some… inaccurate answers. But what if we could send students to an AI chatbot that was actually trained on our course content? Might that be a useful tool for learning?These are no longer hypothetical questions. Top Hat has rolled out a new AI tool called Ace, an AI chatbot that reads your own course materials and answers student questions using those materials. Ho...
2024-04-0938 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationInstructional (Re)Design with David Hinson and Shawndra BowersShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. David Hinson is the R. Hugh Daniel professor of architecture at Auburn University. David teaches a course in professional practice, a course that covers such things as running a business, marketing and communication, and professional ethics. When he realized that his lecture course needed an overhaul, he reached out to Auburn’s center for teaching and learning, the Biggio Center, for an instructional design consultation.Shawndra Bowers is the associate director of learning experience design at the Biggio Center, where she manages a team of 40 pe...
2024-03-2639 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationStudents as Partners with Aimee Fleming and Maren RiceShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Students as Partners programs have been on my radar for years now. These are programs that pair faculty with thoughtful students who provide input and feedback into the faculty member’s teaching and course design. The programs seem to have incredible benefits to the student partners, to the faculty partners, and to the faculty partner’s students, but I never figured out a way to get one started while I was at Vanderbilt. Thanks to a fireworks show during the 2023 POD Network conference, I learned that...
2024-03-1239 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationInclusive STEM Teaching with Tershia Pinder-Grover and Sarah HokansonShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. The Inclusive STEM Teaching Project is a free, online, six-week course “designed to advance the awareness, self-efficacy, and ability of faculty, postdocs, and doctoral students to cultivate inclusive STEM learning environments for all their students and to develop themselves as reflective, inclusive practitioners.”On the podcast today, I talk with two of the project team members. Tershia Pinder-Grover is director of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching in Engineering at the University of Michigan, and Sarah Hokanson is assistant vice president and assistant prov...
2024-02-2739 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationEnhancing Inclusive Instruction with Tracie Addy, Derek Dube, and Khadijah MitchellShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Tracie Addy, Derek Dube, and Khadijah Mitchell are authors of a new book called Enhancing Inclusive Instruction: Student Perspectives and Practical Approaches for Advancing Equity in Higher Education. It’s a sequel to their 2021 book, What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching, both from Routledge. In this episode, the three co-authors talk about the origins of the book series, the importance of hearing student voices when practicing inclusive teaching, and how someone like me, who has been practicing active learning ins...
2024-02-1340 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationPeer-Reviewed Teaching Resources with Jenny Knight and Sharleen FlowersShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. CourseSource is an open-access journal now entering its tenth year that has a variety of peer-reviewed teaching resources for biology, primarily detailed lesson plans tagged by course and topic for easy searching. I found out about CourseSource years ago, and I was amazed at the catalog of high-quality lesson plans and other teaching resources there. I keep running into biology faculty who don’t know about this great resource, which is also kind of amazing. What I haven’t found are resources like CourseSource in other disciplines.
2024-01-3042 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationRelationship-Rich Education with Isis Artze-VegaShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Isis Artze-Vega is college provost and vice president for academic affairs at Valencia College, a public college in Florida with over 40,000 students. Isis is also the co-author of a book on relationship-rich education, which was the topic of her closing plenary session at the 2024 POD Network conference in November. That plenary was fantastic and before it was even over, I made plans to invite Isis on the podcast to talk about the value of relationships in learning.Isis is the co-author of Connections Are Everything...
2024-01-1639 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAssessing Teaching with Beate Brunow and Shawn SimonsonShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In today’s episode, we dig into an important question for higher ed: How can we improve the evaluation of teaching? Researcher Corbin Campbell was quoted in a Chronicle article recently, saying, “Folks will say quality teaching is hard to measure. Quality research is hard to measure, but we do it.” I’m excited to bring a conversation with two academics who are contributing to efforts on their campuses to assess and evaluate teaching in more meaningful ways.Beate Brunow is the associate director at the Schr...
2024-01-0241 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationGlobal Online Learning with Safary Wa-Mbaleka and Leni CasimiroShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. One of the themes I’ve been exploring here on the podcast is how teaching and learning in higher education has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Months of emergency remote teaching followed by more planned online and blended teaching has resulted in an acceleration of the role of online teaching in higher education. Safary Wa-Mbaleka is associate professor of leadership in higher education at Bethel University in Minnesota, and Leni Casimiro is professor and chair of education at the Adventist International Institute for...
2023-12-1238 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationCareer-Oriented Course Design with Greg EdwardsShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. On this episode, I talk with Greg Edwards, head of learning at Rize Education. Rize is a for-profit company that works with a consortium of over 135 colleges and universities to help them quickly launch new, career-oriented majors and other programs. The institutions partner with Rize, which can provide half a dozen core online courses for these majors, sourced from the consortium, that layer on existing courses at the home institution to get these new programs up and running in a semester or two.As head...
2023-11-2840 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationPersonalized Learning through Micro-Credentials with Anne ReedShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In this episode, I talk with Anne Reed, director of micro-credentials at the University of Buffalo. Her office oversees over one hundred different micro-credentials that can be earned by University of Buffalo students. Micro-credentials at Buffalo are learning experiences that are larger than a course but smaller than a minor that students can use to differentiate themselves on the job market by making clear the workforce relevant knowledge and skills they’ve gained.Anne and I had a fascinating conversation about micro-credentials at the University of...
2023-11-0741 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationCorequisite College Algebra with Tina Ragsdale, James Kimball, and Kathy AlmyShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Traditionally, college students who don’t have ACT or math placement exam scores high enough to place into college algebra are placed into intermediate algebra, a developmental math course that serves as a perquisite to college algebra for those students. However, this prerequisite approach has chronically low student success rates at many institutions.Enter the corequisite approach, in which these students take college algebra along with a second, support course concurrently. The idea is that students who aren’t quite ready for college algebra will get...
2023-10-2441 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching Race and Politics with Brielle HarbinShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. I recently saw that Brielle Harbin received the 2023 Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Political Science Association. Brielle was a graduate teaching fellow at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching from 2014 to 2016, which is how I know her. She was actively involved in our learning communities on the theme of teaching, difference, and power, work which resulted in two co-authored publications, including the award-winning article “Teaching Race and Racial Justice: Developing Students’ Cognitive and Affective Understanding of Race” in the journal Teaching & Learning Inquiry.Brielle is now an...
2023-10-0339 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationDesign Thinking and AI with Garret WestlakeShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about “assignment makeovers” in this new age of AI, and a key part of rethinking assignments is exploring what we and our students can do with AI technologies in our fields.To help in those explorations, I reached out to Garret Westlake. He is the associate vice provost for innovation and executive director of the da Vinci Center for Innovation at Virginia Commonwealth University. I know Garret because I helped the da Vinci Center build and launch an onl...
2023-09-1939 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationMastery Assessment with Eden TannerShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. On today’s episode, I talk with Eden Tanner about her experiment with mastery assessment. Eden is an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Mississippi. Eden had been changing up her grading practices for a few semesters, and this spring she leaned into mastery assessment. The students in her 170-seat general chemistry course could retake a new version of each of the four exams in her course basically as many times as they wanted. In the interview, Eden shares he...
2023-09-0540 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTalking about Inclusive Teaching with Kelly Hogan and Viji SathyShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In March 2023, educators Kelly A. Hogan and Viji Sathy wrote a piece for the Chronicle titled “How Can ‘Inclusion’ Be a Bad Word?” At the time, they both worked at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and they had been asked by North Carolina state lawmakers to provide data about DEI programming at their institution. In their op-ed, they wrote:“How does it feel to have your work in this kind of political spotlight? Frustrating. In large part because of the disconnect between how these...
2023-08-2240 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching Outside with Rosemary McGunnigle-GonzalesShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Earlier this year, I had the good fortune to speak at a teaching conference hosted by Hofstra University in Long Island, New York. My favorite presenter at that conference was a sociology professor named Rosemary McGunnigle-Gonzales. Not only did she go on a beautiful rant about the deficiencies of our traditional classroom spaces, she also shared a fantastic story about taking her students outside to draw chalk timelines on the sidewalks around her classroom building. Rosemary is an adjunct assistant professor in sociology at both Hofstra University...
2023-08-0839 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationSynchronous Instructor Presence with Mary Ellen Dello Stritto, Enoch Park, and Lidija Krebs-LazendicShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In the summer of 2020, the Oregon State University Ecampus launched a research seminar that gathered educational researchers from around the world who were curious about the role of synchronous instructor presence in online courses. After all, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, most online education was asynchronous. How important were all those Zoom meetings for student learning, really? Today on the podcast, I welcome three members of that research group who are presenting their findings at the Distance Teaching & Learning Conference hosted by UPCEA, the University Pr...
2023-07-2538 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching Students with ADHD with Cathryn FrielShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. If you’ve taught in higher education for any length of time, you’ve probably had one or more students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, better known as ADHD, in your courses. You might not have known it, however, since some students with ADHD haven’t been diagnosed yet and some choose not to disclose it to their instructors. This type of neurodivergence can be a little invisible to instructors, which is why it’s important we learn more about it and how we can design and teach co...
2023-07-1137 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationGrading for Growth with Robert Talbert and David ClarkShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Robert Talbert and David Clark are both mathematics faculty members at Grand Valley State University and authors of the forthcoming book Grading for Growth. They are both incredibly thoughtful and effective teachers who share their experiences, insights, and advice widely. Their new book based on dozens of case studies from instructors across the disciplines who are questioning some of the assumptions baked into higher education and finding better ways to assess students—and to help them grow.In our conversation, we discuss some of the pr...
2023-06-2043 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationProfessional, Continuing, and Online Education with Robert Hansen and Julie UranisShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Correspondence courses. Night classes. Extension schools. Distance education. Continuing education. Professional education. There’s always been a lot happening in higher education for working adults outside the traditional residential undergraduate experience. And for the last couple of decades, those areas of higher education have increasingly moved online. Three years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic greatly accelerated the growth of online education, both for working adults and for traditionally aged college students.To get a better handle on the changes in online education caused by the pandemic, I...
2023-06-0637 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationRethinking Teaching in an Age of AI with James M. Lang and Michelle D. MillerShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In her 2022 book Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology, Michelle D. Miller writes about the "moral panics" that often happen in response to new technologies. In his 2013 book Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty, James M. Lang argues that the best way to reduce cheating is through better course design. What do these authors have to say about teaching in an age of generative AI tools like ChatGPT? Lots!I asked Jim and Michelle on the podcast to discuss generative AI from their...
2023-05-2339 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTeaching for Mental Health with Robert Eaton and Bonnie MoonShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. On today’s podcast, I talk with the authors of a new book that can help college teachers better understand their students as whole people, while also providing lots of advice for instructors who want to better support their students’ learning. Robert Eaton and Bonnie Moon are authors, along with Steven Hunsaker, of Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom, the latest in West Virginia University Press’s Teaching and Learning in Higher Education series edited by James Lang and Michelle Miller. Rob Eaton is a prof...
2023-05-0239 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationGenerative AI in Computer Science with Brett BeckerShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Since November 2022, higher education has been trying to wrap its collective mind around the advent of AI text generators like ChatGPT. For those of us who teach courses where we might ask students to respond to a prompt by writing a short essay, ChatGPT and similar tools certainly seem to provide students a way out of doing that writing themselves.However, our colleagues who teach computer science and computer programming often ask their students to write computer code in respond to a prompt. As it...
2023-04-1838 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationDeconstructing Calculus with Amy Langville and Kathryn Pedings-BehlingShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Picture a calculus textbook. You’re probably picturing a hardback book an inch and a half thick, full of mathematical notation. The traditional calculus textbook can be intimidating for students, like five and a half pounds of pure confusion.On today’s episode, I’m excited to share a conversation with two mathematics faculty at the College of Charleston: Amy Langville, professor of mathematics, and Kathryn Pedings-Behling, adjunct instructor of mathematics. Amy and Kathryn have designed a very different calculus textbook which they call Deconstruct Calcul...
2023-04-0538 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationStudio Biology with Scott Chirhart, Robbie Bear, and Justin ShafferShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. On today’s podcast, I’m happy to share a roundtable discussion with three faculty who teach introductory biology courses using a non-traditional model. All three teach what is called studio-style biology, where the lecture and lab portions are not just coordinated, but actually integrated into the same time and space. The course might meet two hours at a shot three times a week, which each class session featuring a mix of mini-lectures and wet lab activities. My guests are Scott Chirhart, professor and chair of bi...
2023-03-1438 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationResponsible Pedagogy with Eric DetweilerShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Eric Detweiler is an associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University and the director of the public writing and rhetoric program at MTSU. When I saw that Eric had a new book out called Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education, I knew I wanted to talk with him here on the podcast.In the interview, Eric shares the motivation for the book, the problems he sees with the notions of authority and mastery in higher education, and how not...
2023-02-2844 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationThe Hidden Curriculum with Anthony Jack and Missy FoyShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Thanks to another great podcast, Future U by Jeff Selingo and Michael Horn, I learned about a course at Georgetown University called Mastering the Hidden Curriculum. Part of the Georgetown Scholars Program, the course teaches students things about college that many students, especially first-generation students, don’t know, like what office are and how to interact with faculty. The course also dives into topics like imposter syndrome and how to fight it as a new college student. I wanted to know more about the course and...
2023-02-0741 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationHigher Education Beyond COVID with Regan Gurung and Dwaine PlazaShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Regan Gurung is associate vice provost and executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Oregon State University, as well as a professor of psychology. Dwaine Plaza is a professor of sociology at Oregon State, and the two of them are editing a forthcoming book titled Onward to Better: How Facing a Pandemic Will Improve Higher Education in the 21st Century. Regan and Dwaine are in the interesting position of having read about two dozen chapter submissions for the book, all about lessons learned from...
2023-01-2434 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTransparent Teaching with Mary-Ann WinkelmesShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. In this episode, I talk with Mary-Ann Winkelmes, a longtime colleague in the world of educational development. Mary-Ann has worked at teaching centers at Harvard University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and Brandeis University. She’s also the founder and director of the TILT Higher Ed project. TILT stands for “transparency in learning and teaching,” and the project works with instructors and institutions to practice transparent course and assignment design. With all the conversation in higher education today about rigor and flexib...
2023-01-1044 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationStudent Success with Juan GutiérrezShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. “Service courses” are courses like college algebra and calculus that are taught by math departments to students not majoring in math, who take those courses typically to satisfy a major or general ed requirement. These courses are notoriously problematic, often with high drop-fail-withdraw rates or big gaps in student performance across demographic groups. Recently, I went looking for departments who are teaching service courses well. I found the math department at the University of Texas at San Antonio. In just a two-year period, the DFW rate (that’s drop...
2022-12-1336 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationMeasuring Active Learning with Melinda OwensShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Wouldn't it be interesting to see an analysis of how much time you spent on active learning, right after class ended? DART is a tool created by a multidisciplinary and multi-institutional team of education researchers. DART stands for Decibel Analysis for Research in Teaching. All you have to do is record your class session with your phone and upload the recording to the DART website. DART’s machine learning algorithms will then analyze that audio and let you know how much of your class time was spent on...
2022-11-3034 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationAI Writing with Robert CummingsShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. A few years ago you could assume that if a student submitted an essay in your class, some human wrote that essay, hopefully the student in question. That’s no longer true, however, as AI-powered writing generators get better and better at producing intelligible text. What are we to do, whether we’re teaching writing or having students use writing to represent their learning? On today’s episode of Intentional Teaching, I talk with Robert Cummings, associate professor of writing and rhetoric and executive director of acad...
2022-11-1535 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationEmbodied Learning with Susan HrachShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. On today’s episode of Intentional Teaching, I bring you a fantastic interview with educator and author Susan Hrach. Susan is the director of the Faculty Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at Columbus State University and the author of the 2021 book Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning. I knew of Susan’s work in embodied learning, and I discovered recently that we share an interest in active learning spaces and how they can be used to support and enhance teaching and...
2022-11-0138 min
Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher educationTrailerShare your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Welcome to the Intentional Teaching, a podcast aimed at educators to help them develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching. I’m your host, Derek Bruff.I directed the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University for over a decade, and I’ve worked with faculty and other instructors at dozens of colleges and universities, helping them to become more intentional and effective teachers. I’ve written two books on teaching in higher education: Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments and In...
2022-10-2103 min
One-Time PodEpisode 45 - The Fourth Amendmentby Nathan Chang
This podcast gives insight into the progression of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution through time via two court cases, Carpenter v. United States and Smith v. Maryland. These two cases were both integral to how the advancement of technology has affected American legislation by addressing intrusive surveillance technology such as pen registers and CSLI, or cell-site location information. With new technology constantly springing up, our privacy has never been more vulnerable.
Works Cited
Carpenter v. United States. (n.d.). Oyez. Retrieved April 7, 2021, from
https://www.oyez.org...
2021-08-0910 min
One-Time PodSeason 4 IntroductionIs it legal for police to track suspected criminals using location data from their cellphone providers? Should people have the right to have their personal data deleted from databases and websites? Are privacy concerns about apps like TikTok warranted? How might our lives change when we can be identified by surveillance cameras by our faces or even just the way that we walk?
Welcome to Season 4 of One-Time Pod. These are just a few of the hard questions about privacy and surveillance we tackle this season, through episodes produced by students in Derek Bruff’s spring 2021 first-year wr...
2021-07-2903 minOne-Time PodSeason 3 IntroductionA cryptic note found in the pocket of a dead man in the woods. Secret messages encoded using telephone touch tones, passed between anti-apartheid activists in South Africa and London. A German monk whose encryption techniques had him accused of witchcraft. A team of codebreakers who cracked a World War Two cipher machine without ever having seen one.
Welcome to Season 3 of One-Time Pod, a podcast on the history of cryptography produced by students in Derek Bruff’s first-year writing seminar at Vanderbilt University. Each episode considers a different code or cipher, how it works, and why it...
2019-12-0402 minOne-Time PodSeason 2 IntroductionWelcome to Season 2 of One-Time Pod, a podcast on the history of cryptography produced by students in Derek Bruff’s first-year writing seminar at Vanderbilt University. Each episode considers a different code or cipher, how it works, and why it’s interesting.
For more on Dr. Bruff’s first-year seminar on cryptography, and for all episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 of One-Time Pod, visit the course homepage: derekbruff.org/blogs/fywscrypto/. Or add the RSS feed to your favorite podcast app.
Intro music: “To Be Decided,” Mystery Mammal, CC-BY
2018-11-2702 minOne-Time PodEpisode 0 - Introduction
Welcome to One-Time Pod!
One-Time Pod explores the history of cryptography through episodes produced by students in Derek Bruff’s first-year writing seminar at Vanderbilt University. Each episode considers a different code or cipher, how it works, and why it’s interesting.
For more on Dr. Bruff’s first-year seminar on cryptography, visit the course homepage: derekbruff.org/blogs/fywscrypto/.
Intro music: “To Be Decided,” Mystery Mammal, CC-BY
2017-11-0601 min