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
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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June 5, 2025 • 45 mins
Tolu Noah shares about her new book, Designing and Facilitating Workshops with Intentionality, on episode 573 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Whenever I'm planning a learning experience, I start by identifying a clear goal for the experience.
-Tolu Noah
I don't think there's necessarily one right way to approach planning.
-Tolu Noah
A really important aspect of facilitation is that yes, you have a...
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May 29, 2025 • 46 mins
Leon Furze shares about myths and metaphors in the age of generative AI on episode 572 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
In higher education there is a need to temper the resistance and refusal of the technology with the understanding that students are using it anyway.
-Leon Furze
We can take a a personal moral stance, but if we have a responsibility to teach students, then we have a responsibility t...
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May 22, 2025 • 49 mins
Jackie Shay Shares about overcoming imposter syndrome through joyful curiosity on episode 571 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Sometimes I get in my head about imposter syndrome about being joyful.
-Jackie Shay
Why can't we recognize that these different types of intelligences have just as much value as intellectual intelligence?
-Jackie Shay
It's about supporting the learning by doing meaningful, ...
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May 15, 2025 • 45 mins
Laura Gibbs shares how to get started with interactive storytelling in any discipline on episode 570 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I think what happens with a lot of people's efforts to tell stories is that they're staring at a blank page or a blank screen, and they just feel lost in it because they don't have a form that they're filling up.
-Laura Gibbss
Everybody was thriving with these hundred...
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May 8, 2025 • 44 mins
Mike Perkins and Jasper Roe share a practical framework for ethical AI integration in assessment on episode 569 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We wanted to be flexible and have some opportunities for students and faculty to really have open conversations about how AI might be suitably used given the individual circumstances and the cultural context.
-Mike Perkins
One of the things that is happenin...
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May 1, 2025 • 48 mins
Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger discuss The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI on episode 568 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
It is true that people cheat, and that's the reason we have rules in the first place in our lives.
-David Rettinger
There are always going to be social, personal, and individual pressures on us that cause us to do things that either we d...
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April 24, 2025 • 44 mins
Therese Huston shares about Sharp: 14 Simple Ways to Improve Your Life with Brain Science on episode 567 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
As an instructor, there are multiple streams that you're having to pay attention to and you're switching between each one.
-Therese Huston
The research shows that listening to music that moves you will increase dopamine in your ventral striatum, so you feel a sens...
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April 17, 2025 • 37 mins
Eileen Camfield shares about Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education on episode 566 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I want to encourage folks to think about how vigor can go alongside rigor.
-Eileen Camfield
We really feel healed. We really feel like our suffering does not have to define us anymore.
-Eileen Camfield
Joy is a renewable resource because it does not get depleted.
-Eileen Camfield
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April 10, 2025 • 44 mins
Jamie Moore shares about embracing anger to find joyful agency on episode 565 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I was told that that if I showed emotion I would be seen as vulnerable, and my students would be ready to pounce on that vulnerability.
-Jamie Moore
Invisible agreements shadow our classroom interactions and curriculum, capping the potential for connection, feeling, and joy in community wit...
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April 3, 2025 • 48 mins
John Warner shares about his latest book, More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI on episode 564 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If we treat the output of large language models as writing, as opposed to syntax generation, which is how I characterize it, then we're allowing the meaning of writing and the experience of writing to be degraded for humans.
-John Warner
Clearly, this...
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March 27, 2025 • 44 mins
Dr. Sunita Sah discusses her book, Defy: The Power of Saying No in a World That Demands Yes on episode 563 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Defiance is a practice, not a personality.
-Dr. Sunita Sah
Defiance is a skill that's available and necessary for all of us to use.
-Dr. Sunita Sah
For many of us, the distance between who we think we are and what we actually do is enormous.
-Dr. Sunita Sah
To...
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March 20, 2025 • 43 mins
Jesús Campos shares his story as an undocumented undergrad/grad student and ways to support others in their educational pursuits on episode 562 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
There is some guilt students have because they feel like they’re not really pulling their weight, or they’re sort of a burden because they’re not producing an income.
-Jesús Campos
Look at scholarships that are open to nonres...
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March 13, 2025 • 37 mins
Stephanie Cawthon shares about her book, Disability Is Human - The Vital Power of Accessibility in Everyday Life, on episode 561 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
We all have disability at one time or another, maybe just not right now.
-Stephanie Cawthon
I think that there is still a sense of surprise when a request is made for some kind of modification.
-Stephanie Cawthon
This idea that accommodat...
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March 6, 2025 • 49 mins
Simon Cullen and Nicholas DiBella discuss how to equip students to dialog across differences using an AI Guide they’ve created on episode 560 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Most of my students have not heard cogent arguments on the other side of whatever their own position is because they've been so siloed.
-Simon Cullen
In every one of these classes the point is to try and confront students with ...
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February 27, 2025 • 46 mins
Lauren Barbeau + Claudia Cornejo Happel discuss how to cultivate critical teaching behaviors on episode 559 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Being a good teacher or a good researcher is not something you're born with. It's something you learn. It's something you can get better at.
-Lauren Barbeau
Teaching doesn't fall into nice, neat color coded boxes. We need something that represents the complexit...
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February 20, 2025 • 48 mins
Michelle Miller shares about her book, A Teacher's Guide to Learning Student Names: Why You Should, Why It's Hard, How You Can, on episode 558 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I think a lot of us kinda simmer in this little mindset of, everybody else can do this and I can't.
-Michelle Miller
We’ve all heard the old saying it’s the sweetest sound that anybody ever hears their own name. It elevates t...
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