
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 • 10 episodes
Designed for Learning
Latest Episodes
Making the Space to Reimagine Teaching
When you become a teacher, you commit to a life of learning—not just for your students, but for yourself. You can feel totally comfortable and confident in your teaching practices, and then suddenly some new technology or some new group of stud...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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32:14

Recognizing Not All Brains Think Alike
Over the last couple of decades, we’ve seen an explosion of books and articles about what’s often called “brain-based learning,” as neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists study and explain what circuits are firing when a student tries to m...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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37:40

AI, Cheating, and Trusting Students to be Human
If you follow the conversations about higher education on social media or in the news, a primary topic on people’s minds is the impact of artificial intelligence on the purposes and processes of an education.For better or worse, much of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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38:28

Writing Like You Teach
Can you draw lessons from the way you teach and apply them in your writing? Designed for Learning host Jim Lang thinks so—so much so that he’s written a new book about it called Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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26:25

Building Rapport in Online Courses
With Notre Dame’s Summer Online courses set to get underway in June, we turn our attention to teaching online—specifically ways to create a sense of community among instructors and students when meeting through screens, and why that matters in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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28:01
