Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning

What Five Years of Listening to Students Taught Us About Learning. A Conversation with Chris Gallagher, Kristi Girdharry, and Kevin Smith

For five years, Chris Gallagher, Kristi Girdharry, and Kevin Smith sat down each semester with the same set of twenty Northeastern University students. What began as an a

Bonus Episode: Reimagining Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI. A Conversation with Columbia University Students.

In this special bonus episode, we step away from our typical one-on-one interview format to share excerpts from a student panel that our host Amanda Irvin moderated at th

AI Is Not Inevitable. A Conversation with Madisson Whitman

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Madisson Whitman, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Director of Curriculum Development at Columbia University's Center

What Learning Looks Like: A Conversation with Lucy Appert

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Lucy Appert, Senior Director of Teaching Excellence & Innovation at NYU Arts & Science, and host of the new NYU Office of Teaching Excel

Teaching Pluralism in Higher Education. A Discussion with Mike Whitenton.

In this episode, we talk with Mike Whitenton, Director of Academic Initiatives at Interfaith America (IA). Mike works at the intersection of rhetoric, religious narrative

From Shame to Strength: Supporting ADHD Students. A Discussion with Karen Costa

Welcome to Season 11! In our opening episode, we sit down with Karen Costa, a faculty development facilitator specializing in online pedagogy, trauma awareness, and cours

Are Students Knowledge Consumers or Co-Producers? A discussion on academic co-creation with Robert Gray

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Robert Gray, Associate Professor of University Pedagogy at the University of Bergen in Norway, to explore a fundamental question abo

“Constitutively Irresponsible”: Why Students Can't Be GenAI's Quality Control. A conversation with Gene Flenady and Robert Sparrow.

This week, we have two guests on the podcast. We’re joined by Gene Flenady, Lecturer in Philosophy at Monash University, whose research concerns the structure and social

Redefining Academic Integrity in the Age of AI with Phill Dawson

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Phill Dawson about how and why college students “cheat.” Phillip (Phill) Dawson is the Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Assessm

880 Eyeballs: Mastering Active Learning in Large Classes with Justin Shaffer

Can you truly engage students in active learning when facing hundreds of faces in a lecture hall? We explore this challenge with Justin Shaffer, Founder of Recombinant Ed

The Secret to a Connected Classroom? Names Matter. A Discussion with Michelle Miller

Welcome to Season 10! In our opening episode, we sit down with Dr. Michelle Miller—Professor of Psychological Sciences and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow at No

The Present Professor with Liz Norell

In the introduction of Liz Norell’s new book, The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching (2024), she opens with two statements: “When you cannot be

How to Rebuild a Broken Connection With Students with Kristi Rudenga

Kristi Rudenga, author of The Chronicle of Higher Education article, “How to Rebuild a Broken Connection With Students” (2024), writes that while intergenerational misund

Trust Moves in the Classroom with Peter Felten, Rachel Forsyth, and Kath Sutherland

How can instructors build trust, community, and a sense of belonging with their students to ultimately improve student learning? In today’s episode, we tackle this questi

A Pedagogy of Kindness with Cate Denial

Welcome to Season 9 of Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning! In this season, with our new host Columbia CTL Executive Director Amanda Irvin, we are exploring the dead idea

Passing the Baton: A New Chapter for Dead Ideas

In today’s episode, we say a bittersweet goodbye to our wonderful podcast host, Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Executive Director Catherine Ross, as she

How to Help Adjuncts Not Want to Give Up with Kerry O’Grady

In today’s episode we examine the systemic issues and dead ideas that underlie the hiring and supporting of contingent faculty. We speak with Kerry O’Grady, Director for

Notes from the Field: Dead Ideas from Columbia CTL Educational Developers

In this episode of 4 mini-interviews, we ask Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) staff John Foo, Jamie Kim, Rebecca Petitti, and Corey Ptak what’s been on the

Why is There No Training on How to Teach Graduate Students? with Leonard Cassuto

In this episode, we continue this season’s examination of graduate education, now looking into how institutions often overlook the need for preparing faculty to teach gra

Teaching Development in Doctoral Education: Let’s Ask the Grad Students!

In this episode, we continue the conversation from our last episode on the topic of teaching development in doctoral education—this time from the student perspective! Wit