What Learning Looks Like

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Every day our team in the NYU Arts & Science Office of Teaching Excellence & Innovation has amazing conversations with teachers, learners, and administrators about what learning REALLY looks like in higher education. We’re excited to share some of those conversations with you through this podcast.

Episodes

  1. 12/18/2025 · VIDEO

    Episode 6 WLLL Bridget McFarland

    A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Bridget McFarland, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Expository Writing Program at NYU, who has been using alternative or contract grading in her first year writing course for the past four years.  Show Notes Mercer Street:  https://wp.nyu.edu/mercerstreet/EWP Course Objectives: https://cas.nyu.edu/ewp/ewp-courses.htmlAsao B. Inoue, “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom, 2nd Edition”DasBender, Gita, Mickelson, Nate, Souffrant, Leah. “Contract Grading and the Development of an Efficacious Writerly Habitus” (2023) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2c4979b8

    47 min

  2. 09/12/2025 · VIDEO

    Episode 5 WLLL John Henssler

    A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and John Henssler, Clinical Professor and Director of Undergraduate Organic Teaching Laboratories in the NYU Chemistry Department. Show Notes Learn more about Professor John Henssler

    41 min

  3. 09/12/2025 · VIDEO

    Episode 4 WLLL John O'Hara

    A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and John O’Hara, Director of Faculty Engagement and Program Innovation in the College of Arts & Science’s Office of Academic Affairs.  Show Notes American Association of Colleges & Universities: High Impact Practices NYU College of Arts & Science First Year Seminar ProgramJohn Gardner, Launching the First Year Experience Movement

    36 min

  4. 09/12/2025 · VIDEO

    Episode 3 WLLL Scott Palmer

    A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Scott Palmer, Senior Coordinator for Digital Learning and Innovation at NYU’s La Pietra campus in Florence, Italy. Scott has been a professor and administrator at La Pietra for more than two decades.  Show Notes Walker Percy, “The Loss of the Creature” https://archive.org/details/loss_creature/page/n3/mode/2up  Florence Underground, NYU Florence Student Radio Project https://www.novaradio.info/programmi/nyu-florence-radio/ Radio Assignment Rubric: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fNNj0ZLMXcuzlcPEzwc4KU0q7cve91lP5qJgdQNdCDE/edit?tab=t.0  Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson (1983). “Political Objects: Blending Cultural Analysis and Artistic Production” by Scott Palmer, https://wp.nyu.edu/ls-thinkglobalteachlocal/2018/05/04/political-objects-blending-cultural-analysis-and-artistic-production/

    36 min

  5. 09/12/2025 · VIDEO

    Episode 2 WLLL Eugene Plavskin

    A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Professor Eugene Plavskin, Assistant Clinical Professor of Biology. Eugene is course director for the Principles of Biology introductory course, which has more than 700 students each fall. Show Notes "Enhancing Student Success:  Using Peer-Led Video Modules to Teach Metacognition & the Hidden Curriculum in a Large Enrollment Introductory Biology Course"

    39 min

  6. 09/12/2025 · VIDEO

    Episode 1 WLLL Chris Whitehead

    A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and University Learning Center director Christopher Whitehead, who is Assistant Dean for Academic Support & Development in the College of Arts & Science.  Show notes Chris’s Gen Chem 1 Vlog: ​​Kyla Scanlon, “The Most Valuable Quality in the World Is Friction” https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-the Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Brown, P. C., Roediger, H. L. III, & McDaniel, M. A. (2014) How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens, Benedict Cary (20140.Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning, Elizabeth L. Bjork and Robert Bjork https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/04/EBjork_RBjork_2011.pdf

    43 min
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Every day our team in the NYU Arts & Science Office of Teaching Excellence & Innovation has amazing conversations with teachers, learners, and administrators about what learning REALLY looks like in higher education. We’re excited to share some of those conversations with you through this podcast.

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