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.
Episodes
6 episodes
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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Episode 5
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Navigating AI’s Evolving Role in Teaching and Learning
Although artificial intelligence has been part of higher education for a couple of years now, faculty are still struggling with what this development means for themselves, their students, their courses—and especially their assessments.No...
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Episode 4
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33:41
Beyond the Pandemic: The Power of Resilient Learning
Instructors everywhere responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with new ideas and strategies for teaching students. Georgetown University’s Maggie Debelius is the co-editor of a new book of essays highlighting this work with the intention of helping...
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Episode 3
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27:54
The Notre Dame Inclusive Teaching Academy
“Incredibly rich and textured and nuanced.” “Re-energized me to continue working on my teaching.” “Really wonderful and empowering.”These are some of the phrases past attendees have used to describe the Notre Dame Inclusive Teaching Acad...
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Episode 2
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32:52
Why Learning Student Names Matters
In this inaugural episode of Designed for Learning, host Jim Lang sits down with cognitive psychologist and author Michelle D. Miller to explore the challenges and rewards of something that sounds so basic it’s easy to overlook how dau...
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Episode 1
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