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.
Podcasting since 2024 • 16 episodes
Designed for Learning
Latest Episodes
‘The Main Event’: Promoting Engagement in a Gen Ed Course
American higher education has always stood out for its strong commitment to general education courses, or gen ed, the premise being that undergraduates should not necessarily jump directly into a major but instead have the room to learn and exp...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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35:29
Effectively Teaching Learners with ADHD
Imagine you have a student who starts the semester strong but unexpectedly misses a deadline, and then you don’t see them in class for a few sessions. You reach out and are surprised to learn it isn’t because they lost interest in the course; i...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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35:56
Using Two-Stage Exams to Promote Active Learning in Large Classes
For decades now, the call to college teachers has been to rely less on lecture and to draw more on active learning techniques such as discussions, small group brainstorming, and think-pair-shares.Strategies like these fit well within sma...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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32:28
Connecting Coursework to Life Through Community-Based Learning and VR
Among the most fundamental promises education makes is this: What you learn here, on campus, will help you when you’re out there, in the world. Learning researchers call this far transfer, describing the process by wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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32:36
Bringing the Term Paper into the Classroom
With the advent of AI, many are questioning the traditional model of having students do much of the heavy lifting of a course on their own. If outside of class students can prompt AI to do homework, write essays, and create presentation slides,...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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36:05