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Teaching in Higher Ed

Thank you for checking out the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. 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.

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Bringing Play and AI into the Accounting Classroom, with Teresa Thompson
Nov 2026 · 4 books
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
“I recommend Two books make it stick, the science of successful learning. by Peter Brown”
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What the Best College Students Do
Ken Bain
“And then also what the best college students do by Ken Bane”
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Teaching Effectively with ChatGPT
Dan Levy and Angela Marez-Alberti
“Drawing inspiration from the book Teaching Effectively with Chat GPT by Dan Levy and Angola. Marez. Albertos”
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey
“And we do an exercise that's inspired by Stephen Covey's book, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People”
The Questions About AI Worth Pressing On, with Remi Kalir
Nov 2026 · 1 book
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Cheating Lessons: Learning from Academic Dishonesty
James M. Lang
“the two books that the faculty learning community is focused on. So James Lang's Right Like You Teach”
Using the Faculty Critical Engagement Framework, with Tazin Daniels
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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Transforming Teaching with Generative AI
Nick Gasper
“the first is a book that came out last year called Transforming Teaching with Generative AI out of Columbia Teachers College Press. By Nick Gasper”
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An Educator's Guide to ADHD
Karen Costa
“the second one is also kind of cheating because it's a book that I know you had a whole podcast episode about, but it is an Educator's Guide to ADHD by your friend and mine, Karen Costa”
Bedtime Stories for Academics, with Talia Argondezzi
Oct 2026 · 3 books
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Badtime Stories for Academics: Quibbles and Squabbles at Typical University
Talia Argandesi
“I am delighted To be introducing today's guest, the author of Badtime Stories for Academics, Quibbles, and Squabbles at typical. University. Talia. Argandesi”
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Be Easy: New and Selected Poems
Adrian Mateika
“He's the author of many books of poetry, including most recently Be Easy, New and Selected Poems”
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Several People Are Typing
Calvin Kasulke
“My recommendation today is a novel called Several People Are Typing. By Calvin Kassulki”
Choosing Metaphors and Changing Minds, with Gardner Campbell
Oct 2026 · 4 books
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
“A dear friend and colleague named Chuck Jubin. recommended a book called Metaphors We Live By. By two linguists”
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities
Jane Jacobs
“Her big first book was Death and Life of Great Americans. Think that's close”
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Dark Age Ahead
Jane Jacobs
“And her last book before she passed away It was called Dark Ages Ahead”
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Storying Aging and the Art of Making Meaning
Stephen Katz
“I want to read Stephen Kat's book, Story Aging and the Art of Making Meaning”
Embodied Teaching and Learning, with Susan Hrach
Oct 2026 · 8 books
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Minding Bodies: How Physical Space, Sensation, and Movement Affect Learning
Susan Rock
“The author of Minding Bodies How Physical Space Sensation and movement affect learning, which was the winner of the twenty twenty two Silver Nautilus Award”
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Transformative Coaching for Faculty and Staff in Higher Education
Susan Rock
“She recently co edited transformative coaching for faculty and staff in higher education”
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Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes
Flower Darby
“Flower Darby su does such a great job of addressing this in her new book about the fizz of teaching online”
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Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
Manoush Zomorodi
“she's just recently published her own book on The ways that the technology is affecting our bodies”
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A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life
Parker Palmer
“from his book or or from his thinking around something what he what he refers to as a hidden wholeness”
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The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
Parker Palmer
“reading Parker Palmer's The Courage to Teach was one of my I think it was the very first faculty book group I ever participated in”
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In a Good Place: How the Spaces Where We Live, Work, and Play Can Help Us Thrive
Leidy Klotz
“It's called In a Good Place. How the spaces where we live, work, and play can help us thrive”
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Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
Leidy Klotz
“But his earlier book that I would also highly recommend is called Subtract. And it's the s the untapped science of less”
How Our Grading Systems Impact Student Motivation, with Daniel Guberman
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Designing Impactful College Courses
Daniel Cooperman and co-authors
“And today he's the first of what I hope will be A number of authors, co-authors of the book Designing Impactful College Courses”
Mental Health in College, with Alexis Redding
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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Mental Health in College: What research tells us about supporting students
Alexis Redding
“Today, joining me is Dr. Alexis Redding to talk about her new edited collection, Mental Health in College, What Research Tells Us About Supporting Students”
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The End of Adolescence: The Lost Art of Delaying Adulthood
Alexis Redding
“She's the co-author of The End of Adolescence, The Lost Art of Delaying Adulthood, and the editor and the book we'll be talking about today of mental health in college”
Show Up Online with Your Values Intact, with Dave Stachowiak
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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Write Like You Teach: Taking Your Classroom Skills to a Bigger Audience
James M. Lang
“Seeing a post from Jim Lang up there about a workshop in Ireland based around his book, Write Like You Teach. And I thought, well, I have never been so glad to be rejected”
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Frayed: Leadership Burnout Among Women in Higher Ed
Rebecca Pope-Ruark
“She has come out with a new book or it's coming out ... the book is called Freyed, and I can picture the the whoever did that cover”
Analog and Digital Ways to Engage Learners
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher
Stephen Brookfield
“When I read Steven Brookfield's book. Becoming a critically reflective teacher. He offers us four lenses for how we might become more of who we are as educators”
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Minding Bodies
Susan Rock
“comes from Susan Rock's phrase. This is inside of her book, Minding bodies is students are not Brains on sticks and shouldn't be treated as such”
UDL at Scale, with Thomas J. Tobin
Sep 2026 · 3 books
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Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education
Thomas J. Tobin
“Tom's books include Reach Everyone. Teach everyone. Going all to act. And the book we'll be focusing predominantly on today, UDL at scale”
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UDL at Scale: Institutionalizing Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education
Thomas J. Tobin
“And the book we'll be focusing predominantly on today, UDL at scale”
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The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook
David M. Parry
“I'm holding up a book called The Public Scholar, a practical handbook by David M. Parry”
Top Tools for Learning 2026, with Dave Stachowiak
Aug 2026 · 1 book
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Defy: The Power of No in a World That Demands Yes
Sinita Sa
“Sinita is the author of a book called Defy. the power of no in a world that demands yes”
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Aug 2026
Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop, with Anuj Gupta and Brian Gogan
Aug 2026
Servingness and Liberatory Teaching, with Gina Ann Garcia
Aug 2026 · 6 books
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The HSI Movement: Strategies Driving Change at Hispanic Serving Institutions
Gina Anne Garcia
“Most recently, the HSI movement. Strategies driving change at Hispanic serving institutions”
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Transforming Hispanic Serving Institutions for Equity and Justice
Gina Anne Garcia
“And that comes from Robin G. Kelly's thinking, right? Everybody sort of cites him for that thinking around freedom dreaming. I'm I just borrow it from him, but people love it, this idea that we can Imagine um in in the abolitionist world. I've been reading a lot about abolitionists. In the abolitionist thinking, scholarship is really about abolishing prisons, right? Like it comes from that. We borrowed we borrowed it and brought it into education, of course. We In education, we borrow ”
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Emergent Strategy
adrienne maree brown
“The book that I use as the theoretical foundation for my book, The HSI movement, is actually Adrian Marie Brown's Evergent Strategy”
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We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
Mariame Kaba
“So the three books were um we do this until we free us. That's the abolitionist work”
Cover of Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
adrienne maree brown
“And Holding Change, Adrian Marie Brown's Holding Change is about facilitation for movement change work”
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The Correspondent
J.C. Hulsey
“The audio book. of the correspondent. I don't know if you've heard about that book yet, but it's all about letter writing. It centers on a woman's life. And so she writes letters to people and then they write her back”
Outdated Research Notions, with Jane Hammons and Adrienne Warner
Aug 2026 · 2 books
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Fire Weather
John Vaillant
“a book that I'm currently reading that's called Fire Weather by John Baliand”
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The Vaster Wilds
Lauren Groff
“The novel's called The Vaster Wilds. by Lauren Crof”
Everyday Acts of Facilitation with Beth Cougler Blom
Jul 2026 · 3 books
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Design to Engage
Beth Coogler Blum
“She's the author of Design to Engage”
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everyday acts of facility, learning to facilitate through life's ordinary moments
Beth Coogler Blum
“And most recently, as we'll be talking about today, everyday acts of facility, learning to facilitate through life's ordinary moments”
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Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
“anyway, it inspired me to also read a book called Your Brain on Art, which I'm about Maybe halfway through”
Fostering Skills for Civic Life, with Bethany Morrison
Jul 2026
A Faculty Guide to Teaching With Video, with Jeff Kim
Jul 2026
Feedback, Voice, and AI in the Writing Classroom, with Anna MillsFeedback, Voice, and AI in the Writing Classroom, with Anna Mills
Jul 2026 · 4 books
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AI and College Writing: An Orientation
Anna Mills
“and is the author of the OER textbooks AI and College Writing. An orientation”
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How Arguments Work: A Guide to Writing and Analyzing Texts in College
Anna Mills
“and how arguments work, a guide to writing and analyzing texts in college”
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More Than Words
John Warner
“John Warner in his book, More Than Words, he talks about writing as being messy and spiky”
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Bad Ideas About AI and Writing
Anna Mills
“Bad Ideas About AI and Writing”
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