Teaching in Higher Ed
Thank you for checking out the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. This is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to increase our personal productivity, so we can have more peace in our lives and be even more present for our students.
Episodes
October 23, 2025 • 35 mins
Carter Moulton shares about his Analog Inspiration (AI) card deck and human centered AI in the classroom on episode 593 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I'm here to talk a little bit about the Analog Inspiration card deck, which really is a professional development resource under the guise of a game.
-Carter Moulton
I wanted to create something that would bring faculty together and talk with each ot...
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October 16, 2025 • 49 mins
Barbara Oakley shares about her course, Speak Freely, Think Critically, and gives practical advice about teaching on episode 592 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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If you look at free speech from a historical and neuroscientific perspective, you can get a much better sense of people's motivations and the continuing patterns that we see through history of people being really pro free speech until it aff...
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October 9, 2025 • 46 mins
Simon Cullen + Danny Oppenheimer help us rethink student attendance policies toward deeper engagement and learning on episode 591 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There's a lot of evidence that coming to class is one of the best things a student can do to facilitate their learning and performance in class.
-Danny Oppenheimer
You can make students attend, and most faculty do. They set attendance as m...
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October 2, 2025 • 47 mins
Mike Caulfield shares about using AI as a co-reasoning partner and his Deep Background tool on episode 590 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Critical thinking problems with students turn out to be critical doing problems.
-Mike Caulfield
AI doesn't naturally think in terms of provenance, in terms of how it got this piece of information. It's a little bit of a bolt on afterthought.
-Mike Caulfield
Se...
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September 25, 2025 • 47 mins
The Richness of Podcasting in Higher Education, with Dom Conroy and Warren Kidd.
Quotes from the episode
There's so many different ways to capture people's imagination through an audio feed.
-Dom Conroy
When we're creating podcasts, we are putting ourselves on the line.
-Dom Conroy
Education is a relational experience.
-Warren Kidd
The act of teaching is reflective and reflexive.
-Warren Kidd
Resources
Using Podcasts to ...
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September 18, 2025 • 47 mins
Emily Pitts Donahoe shares what we can learn about grades from an “emerging failure" on episode 588 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
They introduced a framework that attempts to identify the common features of alternative grading for growth systems that are meant to prioritize student growth and student learning over just grades and performance.
-Emily Donahoe
Those four pillars are marks that indic...
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September 11, 2025 • 47 mins
M. C. Flux uncovers lessons for video creation from what he calls layered learning on episode 587 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I've also started creating these little quiz questions in them, but they're not hard. They're just to keep their attention going.
-M. C. Flux
Many students seem to enjoy this and actually learn well from it, so I keep doing it.
-M. C. Flux
I think these students struggl...
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September 4, 2025 • 36 mins
Seth Offenbach shares about his article, Kindness and Community in an Online Asynchronous Classroom, on episode 586 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I had to recognize the reality that my classroom was never going to be the number one priority for people during the pandemic.
-Seth Offenbach
When we teach, why not be kind?
-Seth Offenbach
My goal is to challenge my students intellectually. My goal i...
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August 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Bryan Dewsbury helps us explore what socially just teaching might look like across disciplines on episode 585 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I am not interested in being in a war with AI. I'm not trying to be a faculty detective to see who's using ChatGPT or not, I didn't sign up for that work.
-Bryan Dewsbury
I'm not your enemy. I'm not against you. I'm rooting for you every single day. I really ...
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August 21, 2025 • 44 mins
Danny Liu shares a different way to think about AI and assessment on episode 584 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Our students are presented with this massive array of things they could choose from. They may not know the right things to choose or the best things to choose. And our role as educators is to kind of guide them in trying to find the most healthy options from the menu to choose from.
-Dann...
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August 14, 2025 • 34 mins
James Lang shares about his latest book, Write Like You Teach, on episode 583 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Answers on their own are not interesting. They become interesting when we know the questions behind them.
-James Lang
When you take a reader on a journey, as the reader works through an essay or book that you've written, they spend a lot of time with you.
-James Lang
Be attentive to the pe...
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August 7, 2025 • 37 mins
Adriana Aldana shares about Counterstory Pedagogy: Student Letters of Resilience, Healing, and Resistance on episode 582 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
One of our ethical obligations as social workers is to engage in self care to avoid burnout.
-Adriana Aldana
Their voice really comes through in the letter format in ways that I don't see in other forms of writing. I encourage them to loosen up a l...
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July 31, 2025 • 44 mins
Alexandra (Ana) Kogl shares about her chaper in Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education on episode 581 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I didn't expect to find joy in the classroom when I started teaching political science 20 years ago.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl
Joy isn't something that we can coerce out of students.
-Alexandra (Ana) Kogl
They seem to expect to feel dead inside in the classroom, whic...
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July 24, 2025 • 43 mins
Leslie Bayers discusses her chapter in Joy-Centered Pedagogy: The Joy of Embodied Learning on episode 580 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I certainly wasn't taught body literacy in school, and what I mean by that is how to read the internal signals that the body might be communicating.
-Leslie Bayers
We feel and think better when we move.
-Leslie Bayers
I try to get students moving or engaged with...
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July 17, 2025 • 44 mins
Jennifer Baumgartner shares some lessons in love and learning from Mr. Rogers’ legacy on episode 579 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Mr. Rodgers was a very comforting influence as a young child.
-Jennifer Baumgartner
Moving slowly or taking your time is a very key theme of Mr. Rogers neighborhood, and also Fred Rogers' life and the way he lived it.
-Jennifer Baumgartner
He didn't shy away from tal...
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July 10, 2025 • 42 mins
Karen Costa describes learning to teach, design, and rest on episode 578 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Gardening is something I've tried and failed at many times. I don't know if it's something you can win or fail at.
-Karen Costa
There's a ton of research on our mental health and well being and what green spaces can do for us.
-Karen Costa
The mindset is learning from nature rather than learnin...
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July 3, 2025 • 44 mins
Jessamyn Neuhaus shares about her book, SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, on episode 577 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Human beings make mistakes. We make mistakes as part of learning. We make mistakes just being in the world.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus
Academia generally attracts people with perfectionist tendencies.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus
Sometimes there is no p...
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June 26, 2025 • 41 mins
Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna share about their book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want on episode 576 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
What's going on with the phrase artificial intelligence is not that it means something else than what we're using it to mean, it's that it doesn't have a proper referent in the world.
-Emily M. Bender
There's a much broader range ...
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June 19, 2025 • 44 mins
Rolin Moe shares about rebuilding trust in the value of education (among other things) on episode 575 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I never again had a static lesson plan. I was always very fluid in whatever I was going to be doing. I knew where I wanted to get, but the road could go in all sorts of different directions.
- Rolin Moe
Learning is a continuous activity in all sorts of areas and all ...
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June 12, 2025 • 36 mins
Alex Edmans shares about his book, May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases and What We Can Do About It on episode 574 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We think a lie is basically the opposite of truth. So something is a lie if you can disprove it factually.
-Alex Edmans
What I focus on in my book is a more subtle form of a lie where something could be 100% accurate,...
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