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.
Episodes
50 episodes since 2022
Improving Teaching at the Institution Level with Lindsay Masland
This is a story about institutional change. The product of that change—a new framework for assessing teaching quality now in use at Appalachian State University—is important, but the process that led to that change is just as important because ...
September 18, 2024
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Episode 49
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39:17
Neurodivergent Students and Active Learning with Mariel Pfeifer
Today on the podcast I talk with Mariel Pfeifer, assistant professor of biology. Mariel started at Ole Miss just about a year ago as part of a cluster hire of three STEM faculty who are on the tenure track at UM doing disciplinary based educati...
September 03, 2024
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Episode 48
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39:38
Culturally Responsive Teaching with Emily Affolter
Emily Affolter teaches in the PhD program in sustainability education at Prescott College in Arizona. Her students come from all different professions, some even already have PhDs. They’re in the program to pursue what Emily describes as “socia...
August 20, 2024
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Episode 47
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39:24
Student Agency and Rhetorical Triangles with Paul Hanstedt
Back in February 2024, as part of a slow read of my book Intentional Tech, I reached out to Paul Hanstedt, author of Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses for a Complex World, to talk about the "rhetorical triangle" as a...
August 06, 2024
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Episode 46
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42:06
High Structure Course Design with Justin Shaffer
During these late summer episodes of the podcast, I’m sharing some interviews I conducted in much cooler times. Back in February as part of a slow read of my book Intentional Tech, I talked with Justin Shaffer, teaching professor in ch...
July 30, 2024
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Episode 45
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42:03
Multimodal AI Projects with Emily Bruff
A few episodes ago, I talked with Marc Watkins of the University of Mississippi about the many ways that generative AI is beginning to intersect with student learning. Marc noted that the newest versions of ChatGPT and similar tools are no long...
July 23, 2024
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Episode 44
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26:54
Daybreak: Learning at Play with Kerry Whittaker and Matteo Menapace
This episode is all about games as learning experiences, with not one but two interviews about the 2023 cooperative board game Daybreak, a game about climate action. Daybreak puts players in the roles of world powers building the technologies a...
July 16, 2024
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Episode 43
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1:05:55
Neurodivergent Learners and Earners with Holly Tilbrook
This spring Holly Tilbrook presented as part of a panel titled “Neurodivergent Learners (and Earners!) in Postsecondary Education” at the UPCEA annual conference. Holly is a deputy director of the Academic Centres at the University of Cambridge...
July 02, 2024
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Episode 42
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38:29
Take It or Leave It with Stacey Johnson, Emily Donahoe, and Lance Eaton
Inspired by a recent episode of the American Birding Podcast, this episode of Intentional Teaching features a "Take It or Leave It" Panel. I spent some quality time with recent essays published online looking for arguments about teaching and le...
June 18, 2024
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Episode 41
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47:31
AI's Impact on Learning with Marc Watkins
Worried about your students asking ChatGPT to write their essays for them? That's so 2023. Generative AI technology is changing fast, and now these tools have the potential to disrupt many different aspects of learning, from reading to notetaki...
June 04, 2024
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Episode 40
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39:53
Curriculum Mapping with Jennifer M. Harrison and Vickie Rey Williams
Jennifer M. Harrison and Vickey Rey Williams are the authors of the book A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Creating a Collaborative, Transformative, and Learner-Centered Curriculum, published by Routledge in late 2023. Jennifer is the ass...
May 21, 2024
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Episode 39
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40:53
Student Performance Feedback with Jeff Przybylo and Thomas Fisher
With the advent of easy-to-use generative AI like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, many instructors have been looking into alternatives to traditional written essays, which are often easy to write with AI assistance. Last fall, I led a webinar on...
May 07, 2024
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Episode 38
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36:47
Learning Assistants with Katie Johnson and Katarya Johnson-Williams
In a Learning Assistants program, students who did well in a course in the past are invited to come back to attend class and help current students learn the course material. I knew these programs could be effective from my time at Vanderbilt Un...
April 30, 2024
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Episode 37
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39:35
Universal Design for Learning at Scale with Thomas J. Tobin
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for improving learning for all learners based on the science of how humans learn. It involves providing learners with multiple means of engagement, representation, action, and expression. We’ve...
April 23, 2024
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Episode 36
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39:59
AI-Enhanced Learning with Pary Fassihi
I talked recently with Pary Fassihi, senior lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences Writing Program at Boston University, about her use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Adobe Firefly in her writing and research courses. I’ve known P...
April 16, 2024
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Episode 35
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40:08
AI Learning Assistants with Sravanti Kantheti
We know that having students go to the free version of ChatGPT and ask it questions about course content can lead to some… inaccurate answers. But what if we could send students to an AI chatbot that was actually trained on our course content? ...
April 09, 2024
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Episode 34
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37:54
Instructional (Re)Design with David Hinson and Shawndra Bowers
David Hinson is the R. Hugh Daniel professor of architecture at Auburn University. David teaches a course in professional practice, a course that covers such things as running a business, marketing and communication, and professional ethics. Wh...
March 26, 2024
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Episode 33
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38:50
Students as Partners with Aimee Fleming and Maren Rice
Students as Partners programs have been on my radar for years now. These are programs that pair faculty with thoughtful students who provide input and feedback into the faculty member’s teaching and course design. The programs seem to have incr...
March 12, 2024
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Episode 32
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39:23
Inclusive STEM Teaching with Tershia Pinder-Grover and Sarah Hokanson
The Inclusive STEM Teaching Project is a free, online, six-week course “designed to advance the awareness, self-efficacy, and ability of faculty, postdocs, and doctoral students to cultivate inclusive STEM learning environments for all their st...
February 27, 2024
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Episode 31
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39:25
Enhancing Inclusive Instruction with Tracie Addy, Derek Dube, and Khadijah Mitchell
Tracie Addy, Derek Dube, and Khadijah Mitchell are authors of a new book called Enhancing Inclusive Instruction: Student Perspectives and Practical Approaches for Advancing Equity in Higher Education. It’s a sequel to their 2021 book, ...
February 13, 2024
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Episode 30
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40:07
Peer-Reviewed Teaching Resources with Jenny Knight and Sharleen Flowers
CourseSource is an open-access journal now entering its tenth year that has a variety of peer-reviewed teaching resources for biology, primarily detailed lesson plans tagged by course and topic for easy searching. I found out about Course...
January 30, 2024
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Episode 29
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41:45
Relationship-Rich Education with Isis Artze-Vega
Isis Artze-Vega is college provost and vice president for academic affairs at Valencia College, a public college in Florida with over 40,000 students. Isis is also the co-author of a book on relationship-rich education, which was the topic of h...
January 16, 2024
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Episode 28
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39:02
Assessing Teaching with Beate Brunow and Shawn Simonson
In today’s episode, we dig into an important question for higher ed: How can we improve the evaluation of teaching? Researcher Corbin Campbell was quoted in a Chronicle article recently, saying, “Folks will say quality teaching is hard to measu...
January 02, 2024
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Episode 27
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41:01
Global Online Learning with Safary Wa-Mbaleka and Leni Casimiro
One of the themes I’ve been exploring here on the podcast is how teaching and learning in higher education has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Months of emergency remote teaching followed by more planned online and blended teachin...
December 12, 2023
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Episode 26
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37:52
Career-Oriented Course Design with Greg Edwards
On this episode, I talk with Greg Edwards, head of learning at Rize Education. Rize is a for-profit company that works with a consortium of over 135 colleges and universities to help them quickly launch new, career-oriented majors and other pro...
November 28, 2023
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Episode 25
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39:55