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.
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93 episodes
The Future of AI and Teaching with Dan Levy and Angela Pérez Albertos (Bonus)
Dan Levy and Angela Pérez Albertos are authors of the book Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT. When I had them on the show, I asked them not to predict the future of AI as it intersects with teaching but to describe the future they...
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Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT with Dan Levy and Angela Pérez Albertos
I have now read a few books on the intersection of higher education teaching and generative AI, and Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT is by far my favorite. There’s no hyperbole here, just practical advice on making the most of generat...
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Take It or Leave It with Stacey Johnson, Liz Norell, and Viji Sathy
I’m back with another “Take It or Leave It” panel! I know it’s only been a couple of episodes since the last one, but there’s a lot happening in higher ed in the US right now and I find these panels helpful for making sense of it all. Once agai...
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Episode 69
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Three Ways to Think about Custom AI Chatbots in Teaching (Bonus)
In this bonus episode, I reflect on my recent interview with Danny Liu, Matthew Clemson, and Isabelle Hesse of the University of Sydney about Cogniti, a new tool from Sydney that allows instructors to create custom AI chatbots. How do their exp...
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Teaching with AI Agents with Matthew Clemson, Isabelle Hesse, and Danny Liu
Cogniti is a tool developed at the University of Sydney that instructors can use to create custom AI chatbots ("agents") for use in their teaching. Cogniti makes it easy to create a special-purpose agent, invite students to interact with the ag...
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What Can We Expect from the "AI University"? (Bonus)
Recently on the show I hosted a Take It or Leave It panel with my colleagues Betsy Barre, Bryan Dewsbury, and Emily Donahoe. One piece we discussed was “Are You Ready for the AI University?” by Scott Latham, professor of strategy at th...
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Take It or Leave It with Betsy Barre, Bryan Dewsbury, and Emily Donahoe
Higher education in the United States has been faced with some unique challenges in 2025, largely because of actions taken by the new U.S. presidential administration. In this "Take It or Leave It" edition of the podcast, I invited three wise c...
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Episode 67
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AI-Integrated Assignments with Kiera Allison, Jamie Jirout, Spyros Simotas, & Jun Wang
On the podcast today, I talk with four University of Virginia faculty who are serving this year as Faculty AI Guides. This provost-funded program has enlisted 51 faculty to explore potential uses of generative AI in their teaching and to share ...
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Episode 66
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Teaching with Technology with Lauren Malone (Bonus)
I recently talked with Lauren Malone, assistant professor of communication at the University of Tampa, about her experiments integrating generative AI into her teaching. Before she was a faculty member, Lauren spent a couple of years as an acad...
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Creative Thinking and AI with Lauren Malone
In this episode, I share a conversation I had recently with Lauren Malone, assistant professor of communication at the University of Tampa. I met Lauren at a conference in Tampa, where she was presenting her ongoing experiments integrating AI i...
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Episode 65
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Faculty and Student Support with Pratima Enfield (Bonus)
I recently talked with Pratima Enfield about her work as an instructional designer at Johns Hopkins University. That work involved combining instructional design with student support, two areas that are often siloed. In these bonus clips, Prati...
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Integrating Instructional Design and Student Support with Pratima Enfield
Pratima Enfield is the associate dean of instructional design at the United States Naval Community College. Prior to her current position, Pratima was the executive director of online learning at the School of Advanced International Studies at ...
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Episode 64
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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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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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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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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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