Designed for Learning
Hosted by acclaimed teaching scholar Jim Lang, Designed for Learning is a podcast from Notre Dame Learning, a collaborative unit at the University of Notre Dame that works with faculty and other instructors as they seek to enhance learning for their students. In that spirit, the show features interviews with teachers, experts in teaching and learning in higher education, authors of new books and resources, and anyone else we can learn from. New episodes are released monthly.
Designed for Learning
Latest Episodes
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Helping Students See They Matter
In higher education’s current landscape, many thinkers in teaching and learning are arguing that we need to emphasize that college is more than just the acquisition of knowledge and skills.We want students to recognize the value of learn...
Annette Vee on AI-Aware Teaching
The words and metaphors we choose to describe our interactions with artificial intelligence are telling.Do we view it as a stochastic parrot? A thought partner? A form of co-intelligence? A sycophantic assistant? Each of these phrases re...
AI, Cheating, and Trusting Students to be Human (Re-Release)
For better or worse, much of the talk about AI’s impact on the purposes and processes of an education continues to focus on cheating: Are students outsourcing their work, and their learning, to tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google ...
Why Learning Student Names Matters (Re-Release)
It’s something that sounds so basic it’s easy to overlook how daunting it can be:Learning and remembering student names.This month, we’re going back to our very first episode (and one of our most popular ones), a conversation with...
The ‘Troubled History’ of Labelling Learning Styles
For better or worse, the educational theory that seems to have permeated American education more than any other has been the notion of learning styles. Although the definition can vary, the most popular version of the idea argues that people ca...