Intentional Teaching

Mar 04 2025 62 ep. 40 mins 13

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Intentional Teaching is a podcast aimed at educators to help them develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching. Hosted by educator and author Derek Bruff, the podcast features interviews with educators throughout higher ed.

Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association.

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Take It or Leave It with Liz Norell, Betsy Barre, and Bryan Dewsbury

Mar 04 2025 54 mins

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage. 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,

Keep the Faith: Learning at Play with Greg Loring-Albright

Feb 18 2025 39 mins

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage. 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 st

Writing, Editing, and AI with Heidi Nobles

Feb 04 2025 40 mins

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage. 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 backgro

AI as Design Accelerator with Ryan Wetzel

Jan 21 2025 39 mins

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage. 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 experien

Rethinking Doctoral Education with Leonard Cassuto

Jan 07 2025 42 mins

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage. 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 wh

AI Across the Curriculum with Jane Southworth

Dec 03 2024 40 mins

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage. 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

Teaching with AI in Technical Courses with Jingjing Li

Nov 19 2024 41 mins

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage. 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 t

An Oral History of the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching

Nov 12 2024 95 mins

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage. 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 calle

Some College, No Degree with Josh Steele

Nov 05 2024 37 mins

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage. 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 app

Active Learning in the Humanities with Todd Clary, Stephen Sansom, and Carolyn Aslan

Oct 22 2024 38 mins

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text massage. 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: To