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Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning
Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning is a podcast from the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning. Our mission is to encourage instructors, students, and leaders in higher education to reflect on what they believe about teaching and learning.
Episodes
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningWhat Inclusive Instructors Do with Tracie Marcella Addy, Derek Dube, Khadijah A. Mitchell, and Mallory SoRelle
What are small steps instructors can take to teach inclusively? Where, when, and how should they be implemented? In today’s episode, we chat with the authors…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningOnline Teaching and Learning with Roxanne Russell
What are the benefits of online education? What misconceptions or “dead ideas” do both instructors and students harbor about teaching and learning online? And…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningThe Syllabus with William Germano and Kit Nicholls
Transcript What does the syllabus do? Who is it for? Why is it chronically unread? And how can it be written to foster an environment of trust and…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningUngrading with Jesse Stommel
Jesse Stommel, co-founder of Hybrid Pedagogy: the journal of critical digital pedagogy and co-author of An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningAssessment For and As Learning
Beginning In 2007, Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons (VP&S) began to radically rethink their curriculum and assessment strategies…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningBonus Episode with Jenny Davidson: How Much Reading Is Enough?
In this bonus episode, we continue our conversation with Jenny Davidson, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia, to tackle the question of…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningDead Ideas in Grading with Jenny Davidson
On March 20, 2020, days after Columbia University transitioned to fully remote teaching due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jenny Davidson, Professor of English and…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningColumbia Undergraduates on Dead Ideas in Learning
In Spring 2020, Columbia students Mae Butler, Haya Ghandour, Jennifer Lee and Kalisa Ndamage served as undergraduate teaching and learning consultants as part…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningDead Ideas in Science Teaching with Carl Wieman
Carl Wieman, Nobel laureate and Professor of Physics and Education at Stanford University, has dedicated much of his career to addressing the problems and…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningNeuromyths in Teaching and Learning with Michelle Miller
Do we really only use 10% of our brains? Will using technology in my course improve my students’ learning and motivation? Are students nowadays “digital…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningThe Tyranny of Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning with Diane Pike
In our first episode, Diane Pike, Professor of Sociology at Augsburg University, discusses her motivation to write the article “The Tyranny of Dead Ideas in…
Dead Ideas in Teaching and LearningIntroducing: Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning
Welcome to Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning, a new podcast hosted by CTL executive director, Catherine Ross. Our mission is to encourage instructors…