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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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Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. Today on the podcast, we learn about one initiative that offers a path forward for AI and writing instruction. It’s called the PAIRR Project, where PAIRR stands for peer and AI review and reflection. This approach takes the well-established peer review pedagogy used in writing instruction and adds a layer of AI-generated feedback on student writing. PAIRR has been developed and tested by dozens of faculty at public colleges and...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. Here in the US, the political environment is more heated than I’ve ever known it in my lifetime, and some of that heat is coming directly at higher ed and its faculty. This episode is all about managing those “hot moments” in our classes when just about any topic can be “hot.” My guests are Bethany Morrison, assistant director at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, and Rick Moor...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. In this episode, we explore why digital accessibility can be so important to the student experience. My guest is Amy Lomellini, director of accessibility at Anthology, the company that makes the learning management system Blackboard. Amy teaches educational technology as an adjunct at Boise State University, and she facilitates courses on digital accessibility for the Online Learning Consortium. In our conversation, we talk abo...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. The online education wings of most colleges and universities have changed a lot since 2020, with online units moving in from the periphery to the center of operations at most institutions. On the podcast today, we’re going to take a look at the state of online education in the United States, and to do that, we’ll make use of data from the 2025 Benchmarking Online Enterprise Survey (BOnES) conducted by UPCEA, the online and prof...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. Today on the podcast, I'm excited to try out a new format. I'm calling it "Study Hall" since we're gathered together to discuss some interesting teaching and learning studies, with this edition's studies exploring the intersection of generative AI and education. The panelists for this edition of study hall are Lance Eaton, senior associate director of AI in teaching and learning at Northeastern University; Michelle D. Miller, p...
1Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. Today on the podcast, we’ll get a window into how AI is affecting the teaching and learning landscape at one university, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. My guest today is Alex Ambrose, professor of the practice and director of the Lab for AI in Teaching and Learning at the Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence at Notre Dame. Alex discusses Notre Dame’s recent decision to adopt Google Gemini campuswide, surveys of Notre ...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. On two recent episodes of this podcast, we talked about an essay titled "Higher Ed Is Adrift" by Kevin McClure. In the essay, Kevin outlines some of the many attacks the current U.S. presidential administration is leveraging against higher ed, and he notes that many faculty and staff are finding their institutional leaders' responses lacking. Today on the show, I talk with Kevin McClure, who is a professor of higher educa...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. Dan Levy and Angela Pérez Albertos are authors of the book Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT. When I had them on the show, I asked them not to predict the future of AI as it intersects with teaching but to describe the future they would like to see. After they gave their answers, Dan turned the tables and asked me the same question! Podcast Links: Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and professional edu...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. I have now read a few books on the intersection of higher education teaching and generative AI, and Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT is by far my favorite. There’s no hyperbole here, just practical advice on making the most of generative AI with dozens of concrete examples from the authors and from other instructors in their network. The book was written by Dan Levy, senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, ...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. I’m back with another “Take It or Leave It” panel! I know it’s only been a couple of episodes since the last one, but there’s a lot happening in higher ed in the US right now and I find these panels helpful for making sense of it all. Once again I’ve invited three smart colleagues on the show to discuss recent op-eds that address the challenges that colleges and universities and their teaching missions are facing here in 2025. ...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. In this bonus episode, I reflect on my recent interview with Danny Liu, Matthew Clemson, and Isabelle Hesse of the University of Sydney about Cogniti, a new tool from Sydney that allows instructors to create custom AI chatbots. How do their experiences using Cogniti address the concerns I hear from other faculty about using these tools in their teaching? Podcast Links: Intentional Teaching is sponsored by UPCEA, the online and...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. Cogniti is a tool developed at the University of Sydney that instructors can use to create custom AI chatbots ("agents") for use in their teaching. Cogniti makes it easy to create a special-purpose agent, invite students to interact with the agent, and have some visibility into how students are using the agent. I have a theory that in a few years, teaching-focused custom AI chatbots are going to be standard tools availabl...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. Recently on the show I hosted a Take It or Leave It panel with my colleagues Betsy Barre, Bryan Dewsbury, and Emily Donahoe. One piece we discussed was “Are You Ready for the AI University?” by Scott Latham, professor of strategy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, published in April 2025. In this bonus episode, I'm sharing a few more of my thoughts about the article and the provocative predictions it makes. Podcast Link...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. Higher education in the United States has been faced with some unique challenges in 2025, largely because of actions taken by the new U.S. presidential administration. In this "Take It or Leave It" edition of the podcast, I invited three wise colleagues on the show to discuss recent op-eds that address ongoing challenges to the teaching missions of colleges and universities. For each essay, we decide if we want to Take It (that...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. On the podcast today, I talk with four University of Virginia faculty who are serving this year as Faculty AI Guides. This provost-funded program has enlisted 51 faculty to explore potential uses of generative AI in their teaching and to share what they learn with colleagues in their departments and schools. Back in January, we invited the Faculty AI Guides to share assignments from their fall courses that thoughtfully integrat...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. I recently talked with Lauren Malone, assistant professor of communication at the University of Tampa, about her experiments integrating generative AI into her teaching. Before she was a faculty member, Lauren spent a couple of years as an academic technologist, and in this bonus clip she share how that experience has affected her approach to teaching with technology as an instructor. Podcast Links: Intentional Teaching is spo...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. In this episode, I share a conversation I had recently with Lauren Malone, assistant professor of communication at the University of Tampa. I met Lauren at a conference in Tampa, where she was presenting her ongoing experiments integrating AI into her communications and media studies courses. In particular, she shared about her use of Google NotebookLM in a game studies course that focused on writing for digital games. Lauren w...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. I recently talked with Pratima Enfield about her work as an instructional designer at Johns Hopkins University. That work involved combining instructional design with student support, two areas that are often siloed. In these bonus clips, Pratima shares how faculty responded to this model and how the work of instructional designers, while focused on supporting faculty, is actually a way to support students. Podcast Links: Inte...
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. Pratima Enfield is the associate dean of instructional design at the United States Naval Community College. Prior to her current position, Pratima was the executive director of online learning at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Pratima and her SAIS colleagues bridged the gap between the instructional design and student support functions that are more typically siloed in online programs....
Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. Today on the podcast, I’m republishing one of my favorite interviews from Leading Lines, the podcast I hosted for the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching from 2016 to 2022. In this interview from 2022, I talk with Remi Kalir, who was (at the time) an associate professor of learning design and technology at the University of Colorado. Remi is a scholar of annotation, that simple act of adding a note to a text. Remi t...
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