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Listen to Derek Bruff’s Intentional Teaching podcast, now sponsored by UPCEA!

UPCEA is excited to announce that we are now sponsoring the Intentional Teaching podcast hosted by Derek Bruff. Derek is an educator, author, and higher ed consultant. He directed the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching for more than a decade, where he helped faculty and other instructors develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching. Derek has a Ph.D. in mathematics and has taught math courses at Vanderbilt and Harvard University.

Intentional Teaching is aimed at college and university educators to help them develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching. The podcast’s name is a spin on Derek’s 2019 book, Intentional Tech: Principles to Guide the Use of Educational Technology in College Teaching

Find the Intentional Teaching podcast every other Tuesday wherever you listen to podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, and the Intentional Teaching podcast RSS feed. Recent episodes include: 

  • July 25: Synchronous Instructor Presence with Mary Ellen Dello Stritto, director of the Ecampus research unit at Oregon State; Enoch Park, senior instructional designer and online learning specialist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte; and Lidija Krebs-Lazendic, lecturer in psychology at the University of New South Wales in Australia
  • July 11: Teaching Students with ADHD with Cathryn Friel, senior instructional designer at Missouri Online
  • June 6: Professional, Continuing, and Online Education with Robert Hansen and Julie Uranis of UPCEA

Be sure to take a listen, and share with the instructors, instructional designers, and educational technologists on your team! 

 

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