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.
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 76
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Teaching with AI in Technical Courses with Jingjing Li
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In my new job at the University of Virginia, I recently met Jingjing Li, Andersen Alumni associate professor of commerce. Jingjing tea…
An Oral History of the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching
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In 1986, Vanderbilt University established a new Center for Teaching, a unit that would help thousands of faculty and other instructor…
Some College, No Degree with Josh Steele
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According to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, there are approximately 36.8 million adults in the United States unde…
Active Learning in the Humanities with Todd Clary, Stephen Sansom, and Carolyn Aslan
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I see a lot of scholarly work on active learning in the STEM fields, but much less about active learning in the humanities. So when I …
Teaching Habits of Mind with Becky Marchiel
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This episode features a conversation with another faculty colleague from my time at the University of Mississippi. Becky Marchiel is a…
Teaching in an Election Year with Bethany Morrison
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Listeners in the United States might have noticed that there’s a presidential election coming up, and we know that can make for a chal…
Improving Teaching at the Institution Level with Lindsay Masland
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This is a story about institutional change. The product of that change—a new framework for assessing teaching quality now in use at Ap…
Neurodivergent Students and Active Learning with Mariel Pfeifer
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Today on the podcast I talk with Mariel Pfeifer, assistant professor of biology. Mariel started at Ole Miss just about a year ago as p…
Culturally Responsive Teaching with Emily Affolter
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Emily Affolter teaches in the PhD program in sustainability education at Prescott College in Arizona. Her students come from all diffe…
Student Agency and Rhetorical Triangles with Paul Hanstedt
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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 S…
High Structure Course Design with Justin Shaffer
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During these late summer episodes of the podcast, I’m sharing some interviews I conducted in much cooler times. Back in February as pa…
Multimodal AI Projects with Emily Bruff
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A few episodes ago, I talked with Marc Watkins of the University of Mississippi about the many ways that generative AI is beginning to…
Daybreak: Learning at Play with Kerry Whittaker and Matteo Menapace
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This episode is all about games as learning experiences, with not one but two interviews about the 2023 cooperative board game Daybrea…
Neurodivergent Learners and Earners with Holly Tilbrook
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This spring Holly Tilbrook presented as part of a panel titled “Neurodivergent Learners (and Earners!) in Postsecondary Education” at …
Take It or Leave It with Stacey Johnson, Emily Donahoe, and Lance Eaton
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Inspired by a recent episode of the American Birding Podcast, this episode of Intentional Teaching features a "Take It or Leave It" Pa…
AI's Impact on Learning with Marc Watkins
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Worried about your students asking ChatGPT to write their essays for them? That's so 2023. Generative AI technology is changing fast, …
Curriculum Mapping with Jennifer M. Harrison and Vickie Rey Williams
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Jennifer M. Harrison and Vickey Rey Williams are the authors of the book A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Creating a Collaborative, Tran…
Student Performance Feedback with Jeff Przybylo and Thomas Fisher
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With the advent of easy-to-use generative AI like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, many instructors have been looking into alternatives …
Learning Assistants with Katie Johnson and Katarya Johnson-Williams
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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 curr…
Universal Design for Learning at Scale with Thomas J. Tobin
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for improving learning for all learners based on the science of how humans learn. I…