Recommended Podcasts

This page con­tains rec­om­mend­ed pod­casts on teach­ing and learn­ing in high­er edu­ca­tion.

The grading podcast
  • Host: Sharona Krin­sky and Robert Bosley (Co-founder and orga­niz­ers of the Grad­ing Con­fer­ence, high­er ed and K‑12 edu­ca­tors)
  • About: Wel­come to The Grad­ing Pod­cast, where we explore the impact of grad­ing on stu­dent learn­ing across the edu­ca­tion­al spec­trum. Join us for insight­ful dis­cus­sions with edu­ca­tors from around the world who are chal­leng­ing tra­di­tion­al grad­ing sys­tems to improve stu­dent learn­ing out­comes.
  • Note: Over 48 episodes as of June 2024
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Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning
  • Host: Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty’s CTL Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, Aman­da Irvin.
  • About: mis­sion is to encour­age instruc­tors, stu­dents, and lead­ers in high­er edu­ca­tion to reflect on what they believe about teach­ing and learn­ing. In each episode, guests are invit­ed to share their dis­cov­er­ies of “dead ideas”—ideas that are not true but that are often wide­ly believed and embed­ded in the ped­a­gog­i­cal choic­es we make.
  • Note: 30 min­utes in length, over 50 as of Jan­u­ary 2024
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Teaching In HIGHER ED: Faculty development for Professors
  • Host: Bon­ni Sta­chowiak, Pro­fes­sor and Dean of Teach­ing and Learn­ing at Van­guard Uni­ver­si­ty
  • About: Week­ly pod­cast on insights on teach­ing in dig­i­tal spaces, teach­ing philoso­phies, course design, dis­abil­i­ty inclu­sion, implic­it bias, ADHD sup­port, and cul­tur­al com­pe­tence. 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
  • Note: Over 475 episodes as of Jan­u­ary 2024
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Faculty Focus Live Podcast
  • Host: Tier­ney King
  • About: We’re here to bring instruc­tors and teach­ers inspi­ra­tion, ener­gy, and cre­ative strate­gies that they can uti­lize in their every­day teach­ing. We hope the fol­low­ing tips, tricks, and ped­a­gogy tech­niques give teach­ers and instruc­tors an extra boost of cre­ativ­i­ty and moti­va­tion.  These episodes are per­fect for your dri­ve to work or can be inte­grat­ed as a 15-minute think ses­sion to get your wheels turn­ing before step­ping into the class­room or “zoom­ing” onto the com­put­er screen.
  • Note: Over 75 episodes and part of Fac­ul­ty Focus: High­er Ed Strate­gies from Magna Pub­li­ca­tions (this is one of the free resources avail­able includ­ing free reports)
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Leading Lines: A Podcast on Educational Technology
  • Hosts: Vari­ety of peo­ple from Van­der­bilt Uni­ver­si­ty (past and present)
  • About: In this pod­cast, we explore cre­ative, inten­tion­al, and effec­tive uses of tech­nol­o­gy to enhance stu­dent learn­ing, uses that point the way to the future of edu­ca­tion­al tech­nol­o­gy in col­lege and uni­ver­si­ty set­tings. Through inter­views with edu­ca­tors, researchers, tech­nol­o­gists, and oth­ers, we hope to ampli­fy ideas and voic­es that are (or should be!) shap­ing how we think about dig­i­tal learn­ing and dig­i­tal ped­a­gogy.
  • Note: 115 episodes — as of 2023, no longer active but there are many excel­lent past pod­casts avail­able to lis­ten to!
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Lecture Breakers Podcast
  • Host: Bar­bi Hon­ey­cutt — speak­er, author, pod­cast­er
  • About: place where edu­ca­tors share inno­v­a­tive teach­ing strate­gies to help you break up your lec­ture, ener­gize your class­room, increase stu­dent engage­ment, and improve learn­ing.
  • Note: Over 150 episodes (Jan­u­ary 2024)
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Teaching Online Podcast (TOPCAST)
  • Hosts: Dr. Thomas Cavanagh and Dr. Kelvin Thomp­son, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cen­tral Flori­da
  • About: Month­ly pod­cast for online and blend­ed learn­ing pro­fes­sion­als
  • Note: Over 150 episodes as of Jan­u­ary 2024
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Intentional Teaching Podcast
  • Host: Dr. Derek Bruff, edu­ca­tor and author
  • About: 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.
  • Note: 25 as of Jan­u­ary 20244
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Tea for teaching
  • Hosts: John Kane (an econ­o­mist) and Rebec­ca Mushtare (a graph­ic design­er) — John and Rebec­ca run the Cen­ter for Excel­lence in Learn­ing and Teach­ing at the State Uni­ver­si­ty of New York at Oswego
  • About: series of infor­mal dis­cus­sions of inno­v­a­tive and effec­tive prac­tices in teach­ing and learn­ing
  • Note: Over 350 episodes (Jan­u­ary 2024)
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PAUSE FOR TEACHING
  • Hosts: Avi­va Bow­er and Nys­sa Knarvik, instruc­tion­al con­sul­tants, Uni­ver­si­ty of Albany
  • About: Our 2024–25 sea­son focus­es on Teach­ing and AI, fea­tur­ing inter­views with fac­ul­ty from UAl­bany and beyond. We invite you to pause, lis­ten, and learn.
  • Note: Start­ed Fall 2024
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