Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning

Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning

Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning

Episodes 67
Avg. Duration 31m
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Apple Rating 5.0 (20)
Since Oct 2020
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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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.

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

Mar 26, 2026 29m Transcript

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 the recent "Reimagining…

AI Is Not Inevitable. A Conversation with Madisson Whitman

Mar 12, 2026 32m Transcript

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 for Science and Society, and…

What Learning Looks Like: A Conversation with Lucy Appert

Feb 26, 2026 28m Transcript

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 Excellence and…

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

Feb 12, 2026 24m Transcript

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, and cognitive science to…

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

Jan 29, 2026 33m Transcript

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 course/community design. Our…

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

Nov 06, 2025 25m Transcript

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 about the purpose of higher…

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

Oct 23, 2025 24m Transcript

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 conditions of human rational…

Redefining Academic Integrity in the Age of AI with Phill Dawson

Oct 09, 2025 17m Transcript

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 Assessment and Digital Learning…

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

Sep 25, 2025 26m Transcript

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 Education, Associate Dean for…

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

Sep 11, 2025 20m Transcript

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 Northern Arizona University—to…

S9E4 The Present Professor with Liz Norell

Dec 05, 2024 21m Transcript

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 present, you cannot teach…

How to Rebuild a Broken Connection With Students with Kristi Rudenga

Nov 14, 2024 23m Transcript

Kristi Rudenga, author of The Chronicle of Higher Education article, “How to Rebuild a Broken Connection With Students” (2024), writes that while intergenerational misunderstanding isn’t anything…

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

Oct 31, 2024 32m Transcript

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 question with Peter Felten, Rachel…

A Pedagogy of Kindness with Cate Denial

Oct 17, 2024 23m Transcript

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 that the world “outside” of…

Passing the Baton: A New Chapter for Dead Ideas

May 02, 2024 41m Transcript

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 will be retiring from…

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

Apr 04, 2024 29m Transcript

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 Teaching Excellence at the…

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

Mar 07, 2024 36m Transcript

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 their minds as they go about…

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

Feb 22, 2024 31m Transcript

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 graduate students and graduate…

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

Feb 08, 2024 30m Transcript

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! With co-host Caitlin DeClercq,…

Teaching Development in Doctoral Education: Where, When, and How?

Jan 25, 2024 36m Transcript

Welcome back to Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning! In our first episode of Season 8, we speak with Drs. Benjamin Rifkin, Rebecca Natow, Nicholas Salter, and Shayla Shorter about their article in…

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