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.

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What's Needed for Institution-Wide Improvements in Undergraduate Science Teaching? with Marielena DeSanctis and Cassandra Volpe Horii

Posted October 26, 202300:32:23

How can we improve teaching AND support all the instructors who teach science courses for undergraduates? Today we discuss this question with

From Devaluing to Valuing Teaching: Changes Institutions Can Make with Michelle Miller

Posted October 12, 202300:37:31

In The Chronicle of Higher Education, a question was posed by journalist Beth McMurtrie as to whether or not institutions of higher education...

Dead Ideas about the Role of Centers for Teaching and Learning and Institutional Change with Mary Wright

Posted September 14, 202300:29:57

Have Centers for Teaching and Learning (CTLs) actually created change in higher education teaching? Have they been able to demonstrate this change?...

The Students Have the Final (and Best!) Word on the Science of Learning

Posted April 20, 202300:31:34

In our final episode of Season 6, we speak with two undergraduate Columbia University students, Emily Glover and Kyle Gordon, who serve as Teaching...