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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87 episodes
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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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 63
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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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Episode 62
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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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Episode 61
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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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Rethinking Doctoral Education with Leonard Cassuto
Doctoral education in the United States works really well... when it works. Many doctoral students experience a significant mismatch between their career goals and the goals of their graduate programs, which is one reason completion rates for d...
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Episode 56
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Implementing AI Across the Curriculum with Jane Southworth (Bonus)
I recently talked with Jane Southworth, professor and chair of geography at the University of Florida, about the university's AI Across the Curriculum program. Here's a bit more from Jane about assessment for the program, career outcomes for st...
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AI Across the Curriculum with Jane Southworth
Today on the podcast, I’m excited to share an interview with Jane Southworth, professor and chair of geography at the University of Florida and co-chair of the committee that designed UF's "AI Across the Curriculum" program. That program was de...
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Episode 55
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence with Jingjing Li (Bonus)
I recently talked with Jingjing Li, associate professor of commerce at the University of Virginia, about her use of generative AI to teach students a different kind of AI, that is, machine learning. In these bonus clips, Jingjing helps us under...
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Teaching with AI in Technical Courses with Jingjing Li
In my new job at the University of Virginia, I recently met Jingjing Li, Andersen Alumni associate professor of commerce. Jingjing teaches business intelligence at both the undergraduate and Master’s levels, and her research interests include a...
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Episode 54
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An Oral History of the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching
In 1986, Vanderbilt University established a new Center for Teaching, a unit that would help thousands of faculty and other instructors at Vanderbilt and across higher education develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teac...
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