Intentional Teaching
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.
Episodes
71 episodes
Annotation and Learning with Remi Kalir
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 Rem...
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Episode 63
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Telling ChatGPT How It Is with Neeza Singh and Christopher McVey (Bonus)
I recently talked with Christopher McVey, master lecturer in the writing program at Boston University, and Neeza Singh, a BU senior majoring in data science who served as an AI Affiliate in Christopher's writing course last year. In this bonus ...
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AI Teaching Fellows with Christopher McVey and Neeza Singh
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, givi...
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Episode 62
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Broadening Access to Undergraduate Research with Kristine Johnson and Michael Rifenburg (Bonus)
I recently talked with Kristine Johnson and Michael Rifenburg, authors of the new book A Long View of Undergraduate Research: Alumni Perspectives on Inquiry, Belonging, and Vocation. In these bonus clips, they share a bit more about wh...
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Undergraduate Research with Kristine Johnson and Michael Rifenburg
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 ...
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Episode 61
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Take It or Leave It with Liz Norell, Betsy Barre, and Bryan Dewsbury
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!&n...
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Episode 60
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Agency, Counterfactuals, and Coffee with Greg Loring-Albright (Bonus)
I recently talked with Greg Loring-Albright, assistant professor of games, media, and culture at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology and designer of the forthcoming storytelling game Keep the Faith. We covered a lot of ground in our...
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Keep the Faith: Learning at Play with Greg Loring-Albright
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 Univ...
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Episode 59
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Editing and the Teaching of Editing with Heidi Nobles (Bonus)
I recently talked with Heidi Nobles, assistant professor of writing and rhetoric and director of Writing Across the Curriculum at the University of Virginia. She had a lot to say about writing and the teaching of writing from her experience as ...
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Writing, Editing, and AI with Heidi Nobles
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-da...
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Episode 58
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AI and Academic Integrity with Ryan Wetzel (Bonus)
I recently talked with Ryan Wetzel, manager of creative learning initiatives for Teaching and Learning with Technology at Penn State. We talked about a lot of positive uses of generative AI for student learning, but I also asked him about the c...
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AI as Design Accelerator with Ryan Wetzel
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 Techno...
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Episode 57
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Public Scholarship with Leonard Cassuto (Bonus)
I recently talked with Leonard Cassuto, professor of English at Fordham University, about the problems and potential of doctoral education. I had a special guest interviewer, Emily Donahoe from the University of Mississippi. In these bonus clip...
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Rethinking Doctoral Education with Leonard Cassuto
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 d...
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Episode 56
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AI Across the Curriculum with Jane Southworth
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 de...
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Episode 55
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Teaching with AI in Technical Courses with Jingjing Li
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 a...
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Episode 54
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An Oral History of the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching
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 teac...
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Some College, No Degree with Josh Steele
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 ...
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Episode 53
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Active Learning in the Humanities with Todd Clary, Stephen Sansom, and Carolyn Aslan
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...
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Episode 52
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Teaching Habits of Mind with Becky Marchiel
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 conve...
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Episode 51
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Teaching in an Election Year with Bethany Morrison
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. Betha...
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Episode 50
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Improving Teaching at the Institution Level with Lindsay Masland
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 ...
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Episode 49
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Neurodivergent Students and Active Learning with Mariel Pfeifer
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 educati...
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Episode 48
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Culturally Responsive Teaching with Emily Affolter
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 “socia...
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Episode 47
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Student Agency and Rhetorical Triangles with Paul Hanstedt
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...
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Episode 46
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