Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher education

Derek Bruff
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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.)

  1. 3d ago

    AI Learning Assistants at Scale with Kavitta Ghai and George Hanshaw

    Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Consider the AI learning assistant, with access to all the materials from a particular course and programmed to serve as a tutor for students in that course. What happens when you embed this kind of AI technology in every single course offered at a university?  Today on the podcast, I talk with George Hanshaw, director of learning solutions at Azusa Pacific University Global, where they did just that. I also talk with Kavitta Ghai, co-founder and CEO of Nectir, the company that partnered with George and his team to roll out AI learning assistants at scale.  George and Kavitta talk about the faculty and student experience of this technology, why it's a particularly good fit for asynchronous online courses, and why students choose to talk to an institutionally provided AI tutor instead of their good friend ChatGPT. Episode Resources George Hanshaw on LinkedIn Kavitta Ghai on LinkedIn Nectir Three papers by George Hanshaw and colleagues on the Spark experiment: “Exploring the Effectiveness of AI Course Assistants on the Student Learning Experience,” “Exploring Barriers to AI Course Assistant Adoption,” and “An Experimental Study on the Effect of AI Course Assistants on Student Grade Outcomes.” “Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Offloading, and Implications for Education” by Jason Lodge and Leslie Loble Support the show Podcast Links: Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff. Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association. Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky. See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.

    AI Learning Assistants at Scale with Kavitta Ghai and George Hanshaw

  2. Oct 20

    AI-Aware Computer Science Education with Briana Morrison, Greg Nelson, and Elijah Rivera

    Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Before there was ChatGPT, there were generative AI coding tools. This means computer science, as a discipline, has had a little more time to adapt to AI than other disciplines. Plus, the field is used to updating their curriculum as technology and program languages change. How has computer science responded to AI? Might there be lessons there for educators outside of CS? Today on the show I talk with a panel of CS faculty about the ways that AI changing computer science education. Briana Morrison is professor of computer science at the University of Virginia, Greg Nelson is assistant professor of computer science at the University of Maine, and Elijah Rivera is assistant professor of computer science at Brandeis University.  Episode Resources ·       Briana Morrison’s website ·       Greg Nelson’s website ·       Elijah Rivera’s website ·       Resources for the reflection activities Greg shared: https://bit.ly/reflection-AI  ·       CollaborAITE, developed by Greg and students, making AI use a social discussion ·       “Integrating Philosophy Teaching Perspectives to Foster Adolescents’ Ethical Sensemaking of Computing Technologies” by Rotem Landesman et al. ·       “The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith” by Fred Smith   Support the show Podcast Links: Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff. Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association. Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky. See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.

    AI-Aware Computer Science Education with Briana Morrison, Greg Nelson, and Elijah Rivera

  3. Oct 14

    Light Bulb Moments from 100 Episodes

    Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Welcome to the 100th episode of Intentional Teaching! I am very excited to reach this milestone, and I am deeply grateful to all my guests and all my listeners for making this possible. I learn so much from my guests, and I'm thrilled to know that folks out there appreciate the interviews and the show. In this 100th episode, I take a look back at some of the light bulb moments I've had interviewing guests over the last four years. What quotes and ideas and examples have really stuck with me and informed my work?  My hope is that you'll find these moments interesting and perhaps useful to your work in higher education, and that this clip show might interest you in digging into the podcast archives and listening to some older episodes. Episode Resources Episode 2: AI Writing with Robert Cummings Episode 5: Transparent Teaching with Mary-Ann Winkelmes Episode 7: The Hidden Curriculum with Anthony Jack and Missy Foy Episode 11: Generative AI in Computer Science with Brett Becker University College Dublin's statement on the passing of Brett Becker "Promptly: Using Prompt Problems to Teach Learners How to Effectively Utilize AI Code Generators" Episode 41: Take It or Leave It with Stacey Johnson, Emily Donahoe, and Lance Eaton Episode 51: Teaching Habits of Mind with Becky Marchiel Episode 58: Writing, Editing, and AI with Heidi Nobles Episode 68: Teaching with AI Agents with Matthew Clemson, Isabelle Hesse, and Danny Liu Episode 69: Take It or Leave It with Stacey Johnson, Liz Norell, and Viji Sathy Episode 71: Defending Higher Education with Kevin McClure Episode 77: Peer and AI Review of Student Writing with Marit MacArthur and Anna Mills Support the show Podcast Links: Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff. Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association. Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky. See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.

    Light Bulb Moments from 100 Episodes

  4. Sep 22

    Curricular Responses to AI with Deborah Barnett

    Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Deborah Barnett is assistant dean for education at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, where she has been talking with her faculty colleagues, recent alumni, and employers of her school’s graduates about the ways that AI is changing the work of public health professionals. On the podcast today, Deborah shares about the need for schools of public health to respond to AI, the new AI competencies needed by those who work in public health, and the ways that her “Three Pillars” document can inform and shape curriculum revision in the near future. Episode Resources Deborah Barnett's UC Berkeley page "The Three Pillars of an AI-Competent Public Health Professional" Support the show Podcast Links: Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff. Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association. Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky. See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.

    Curricular Responses to AI with Deborah Barnett

  5. Sep 11

    Durable Skills in the Humanities with Chelsea Brislin, Shawna Felkins, and Jennifer Osterhage

    Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. How can humanities courses and majors help students develop the kinds of durable skills--communication, collaboration, adaptability, and more--that employers want? Today on the podcast, I talk to three University of Kentucky faculty about a program at UK called “Transdisciplinary Educational Approaches to Advance Kentucky,” or TEK for short. TEK helps faculty design courses that help students build those durable skills. One of those courses is called Humanities in Action, and one of the goals of the course is to help students see the ways that studying the humanities can build those durable skills—and help them get quality jobs, in or outside of the humanities. Today’s guests are: Chelsea Brislin, course lead for Humanities in Action and associate director of the Gaines Center for the Humanities at UK. Shawna Felkins is a senior faculty consultant at the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CETL) at UK and community coordinator for the TEK Faculty Fellows program. And Jennifer Osterhage is director of TEK and associate professor of biology.  Episode Resources Chelsea Brislin's faculty page Shawna Felkins on LinkedIn Jennifer Osterhage's faculty page Transdisciplinary Educational Approaches to Advance Kentucky (TEK) "Fold in the cheese!" Support the show Podcast Links: Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff. Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association. Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky. See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.

    Durable Skills in the Humanities with Chelsea Brislin, Shawna Felkins, and Jennifer Osterhage

  6. Aug 25

    AI-Aware Online Math Teaching with Jessica Bernards

    Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. Today on the podcast I talk with Jessica Bernards, an experienced online math instructor. Jessica teaches math at Portland Community College and the University of Oregon. She’s also an author and a consultant helping other educators adapt to the world of AI. In our interview, she talks about all the moves she makes to make her students learning visible, to support her online learners when they struggle with learning math, and how her approach to teaching math online has changed because of AI.  Episode Resources ·       Jessica Bernard’s website ·       Jessica’s Study Skills Playlist ·       Jessica’s structured online discussion process ·       Jessica’s student-designed AI chatbot lab ·       Photomath     Support the show Podcast Links: Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff. Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association. Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky. See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.

    AI-Aware Online Math Teaching with Jessica Bernards

  7. Aug 13

    AI and Student Agency with Jason Gulya

    Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. The ebook version of my new book, The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching, co-authored with Annette Vee and Marc Watkins, is out! To celebrate its release I’ve interviewed a few of the faculty whose AI-aware teaching we highlight in the book, and I’m excited to share another one of those conversations here on the podcast today. Jason Gulya is a professor of English and media communications at Berkeley College, where he teaches a variety of online and onsite courses in the humanities. I started following Jason on LinkedIn a few years ago, giving me a glimpse into all the many ways he has adapted his teaching to respond to the challenges and opportunities posed by generative AI. He’s a thought leader in this area, and I was very excited to get him on the line for an interview. In our conversation, he talks about the risks of transactional education and how he pushes back against that model of education through some pretty radical approaches to student agency in their learning.  Episode Resources Jason Gulya on LinkedIn Jason Gulya on Substack Jason’s book, co-authored with Paul Matthews, Artificial Intelligence, Real Literacy Support the show Podcast Links: Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff. Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association. Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky. See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.

    AI and Student Agency with Jason Gulya

  8. Jul 28

    AI-Aware Teaching in Political Science with Eric Loepp

    Share your thoughts about this episode as a text message. The ebook version of my new book, The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching, co-authored with Annette Vee and Marc Watkins, is out! To celebrate its release I’ve interviewed a few of the faculty whose AI-aware teaching we highlight in the book, and I’m excited to share another one of those conversations here on the podcast today. Eric Loepp is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater and co-director of Whitewater’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching, Learning, Scholarship, and Technology. Eric is passionate about teaching political science—something that comes through loud and clear in our interview. He’s also had to figure out a variety of AI-aware teaching practices in the last few years in response to generative AI’s impacts on learning—and on our political discourse. In our conversation, Eric shares some very concrete and AI-aware assignments and learning activities that will, I think inspire you as you adapt to AI in your teaching.  Episode Resources Eric Loepp’s website Support the show Podcast Links: Order The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching by Annette Vee, Marc Watkins, and Derek Bruff. Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional education association. Subscribe to the Intentional Teaching newsletter: https://derekbruff.ck.page/subscribe Support Intentional Teaching on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/intentionalteaching Find me on LinkedIn and Bluesky. See my website for my "Agile Learning" blog and information about having me speak at your campus or conference.

    AI-Aware Teaching in Political Science with Eric Loepp
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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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