Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning
Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning is a podcast from the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning. Our mission is to encourage instructors, students, and leaders in higher education to reflect on what they believe about teaching and learning.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 58
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2024
The Present Professor with Liz Norell
In the introduction of Liz Norell’s new book, The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching (2024), she opens with two statements: “When you cannot be present, you cannot teach ef…
How to Rebuild a Broken Connection With Students with Kristi Rudenga
Kristi Rudenga, author of The Chronicle of Higher Education article, “How to Rebuild a Broken Connection With Students” (2024), writes that while intergenerational misunderstanding isn’t anything new…
Trust Moves in the Classroom with Peter Felten, Rachel Forsyth, and Kath Sutherland
How can instructors build trust, community, and a sense of belonging with their students to ultimately improve student learning? In today’s episode, we tackle this question with Peter Felten, Rachel …
A Pedagogy of Kindness with Cate Denial
Welcome to Season 9 of Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning! In this season, with our new host Columbia CTL Executive Director Amanda Irvin, we are exploring the dead idea that the world “outside” of …
Passing the Baton: A New Chapter for Dead Ideas
In today’s episode, we say a bittersweet goodbye to our wonderful podcast host, Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Executive Director Catherine Ross, as she will be retiring from Columbi…
How to Help Adjuncts Not Want to Give Up with Kerry O’Grady
In today’s episode we examine the systemic issues and dead ideas that underlie the hiring and supporting of contingent faculty. We speak with Kerry O’Grady, Director for Teaching Excellence at the Sa…
Notes from the Field: Dead Ideas from Columbia CTL Educational Developers
In this episode of 4 mini-interviews, we ask Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) staff John Foo, Jamie Kim, Rebecca Petitti, and Corey Ptak what’s been on their minds as they go about the…
Why is There No Training on How to Teach Graduate Students? with Leonard Cassuto
In this episode, we continue this season’s examination of graduate education, now looking into how institutions often overlook the need for preparing faculty to teach graduate students and graduate c…
Teaching Development in Doctoral Education: Let’s Ask the Grad Students!
In this episode, we continue the conversation from our last episode on the topic of teaching development in doctoral education—this time from the student perspective! With co-host Caitlin DeClercq, S…
Teaching Development in Doctoral Education: Where, When, and How?
Welcome back to Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning! In our first episode of Season 8, we speak with Drs. Benjamin Rifkin, Rebecca Natow, Nicholas Salter, and Shayla Shorter about their article in Th…
Let’s Stop Relying on Biased Teaching Evaluations with Joanna Wolfe
While there is extensive research on the use of student surveys in the evaluation of teaching, the recommended practices are often not utilized. How does this negatively impact innovation in teaching…
Ready to Find Out What Research Tells Us about Grading and Grade Inflation? Buckle Up! with Josh Eyler
Josh Eyler, author and Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi, recently posted a rebuttal on LinkedIn to an article in The Chronicle of Higher…
What's Needed for Institution-Wide Improvements in Undergraduate Science Teaching? with Marielena DeSanctis and Cassandra Volpe Horii
How can we improve teaching AND support all the instructors who teach science courses for undergraduates? Today we discuss this question with Marielena DeSanctis, President of the Community College o…
From Devaluing to Valuing Teaching: Changes Institutions Can Make with Michelle Miller
In The Chronicle of Higher Education, a question was posed by journalist Beth McMurtrie as to whether or not institutions of higher education truly value teaching, and she offered a list of “red flag…
AI as a Mass Extinction Event for Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning? with Cynthia Alby
Over the past few months, Cynthia Alby, Professor of Teacher Education at Georgia College, has been focused on developing practical solutions in teaching and learning in response to the sudden emerge…
Dead Ideas about the Role of Centers for Teaching and Learning and Institutional Change with Mary Wright
Have Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) actually created change in higher education teaching? Have they been able to demonstrate this change? How have their strategies evolved and how are they …
The Students Have the Final (and Best!) Word on the Science of Learning
In our final episode of Season 6, we speak with two undergraduate Columbia University students, Emily Glover and Kyle Gordon, who serve as Teaching and Learning Consultants as part of our Center’s St…
The Science of Learning in Action with Samantha Garbers and Adam Brown
How can instructors use research on teaching and learning to create change and tackle challenges in their courses? What can learning analytics tell us about student engagement and motivation in our c…
Dead Ideas in Intercultural Development with Tara Harvey
Tara Harvey, Founder of True North Intercultural, defines Intercultural Competence as “the capacity to communicate and act appropriately, effectively, and authentically across cultural differences, b…
Teaching Students About the Science of Learning with Todd Zakrajsek
How should we educate students on the science of learning? Does this require systemic change? And do faculty have a moral obligation to teach students the processes necessary to succeed in college, i…