Intentional Teaching, a show about teaching in higher education

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 th...

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 c...

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 ...

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...

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...