Derek Bruff

@derekbruff
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Higher education consultant. Visiting associate director at the University of Mississippi Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Author of Intentional Tech from West Virginia University Press. Host of the Intentional Teaching podcast.
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Derek BruffJan 30, 2024
A journal that specializes in peer-reviewed lesson plans? That's CourseSource, publishing lesson plans on a variety of biology topics that feature active and inclusive instruction. On today's podcast I talk with the CourseSource editorial team, Jenny Knight and Sharleen Flowers, about how the journal works... and why other disciplines don't have venues like this one. https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/14400710-peer-reviewed-teaching-resources-with-jenny-knight-and-sharleen-flowers
Peer-Reviewed Teaching Resources with Jenny Knight and Sharleen Flowers - Intentional Teaching

CourseSource is an open-access journal now entering its tenth year that has a variety of peer-reviewed teaching resources for biology, primarily detailed lesson plans tagged by course and topic for easy searching.  I found out about CourseSou...

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Derek BruffJan 16, 2024
I am very excited to have Isis Artze-Vega on the podcast this week! We talk about the value of trusting relationships in teaching and learning and ways instructors can help students cultivate a relationship-rich educational experience. Listen here: https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/14292897-relationship-rich-education-with-isis-artze-vega
Relationship-Rich Education with Isis Artze-Vega - Intentional Teaching

Isis Artze-Vega is college provost and vice president for academic affairs at Valencia College, a public college in Florida with over 40,000 students. Isis is also the co-author of a book on relationship-rich education, which was the topic of her ...

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Derek BruffJan 2, 2024

When it comes to assessing teaching quality, we need to do more than just rely on student evaluations of teaching.

In today's Intentional Teaching podcast, I talk with Beate Brunow and Shawn Simonson about efforts on their campuses to assess and evaluate teaching in more meaningful ways.

Listen here: https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/14189134-assessing-teaching-with-beate-brunow-and-shawn-simonson

Assessing Teaching with Beate Brunow and Shawn Simonson - Intentional Teaching

In today’s episode, we dig into an important question for higher ed: How can we improve the evaluation of teaching? Researcher Corbin Campbell was quoted in a Chronicle article recently, saying, “Folks will say quality teaching is hard to measure....

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Derek BruffDec 12, 2023

"Online education does not run on common sense alone."

I'm glad to have Safary Wa-Mbaleka and Leni Casimiro on the podcast this week to talk about The Sage Handbook of Online Higher Education. The book has a unique global perspective.

Listen here: https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/14108407-global-online-learning-with-safary-wa-mbaleka-and-leni-casimiro

Global Online Learning with Safary Wa-Mbaleka and Leni Casimiro - Intentional Teaching

One of the themes I’ve been exploring here on the podcast is how teaching and learning in higher education has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Months of emergency remote teaching followed by more planned online and blended teaching h...

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Derek BruffNov 30, 2023
This would be the Faculty Focus bump.
Derek BruffNov 29, 2023
Two uses of generative AI for teaching and learning to put on your radar: https://derekbruff.org/?p=4176. And by "put on your radar" I mean "some courses might already be doing these things."
Two Ideas for Teaching with AI: Course-Level GPTs and AI-Enhanced Polling – Agile Learning

Derek BruffNov 28, 2023
How can a small college launch a new major in a field like data science or public health... in just a semester or two? In the latest Intentional Teaching podcast, I talk with Greg Edwards, head of learning at Rize Education, a company that does just that. https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/13979282-career-oriented-course-design-with-greg-edwards
Career-Oriented Course Design with Greg Edwards - Intentional Teaching

On this episode, I talk with Greg Edwards, head of learning at Rize Education. Rize is a for-profit company that works with a consortium of over 135 colleges and universities to help them quickly launch new, career-oriented majors and other progra...

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Derek BruffNov 10, 2023
CETL hosted a great workshop earlier this week with some updates on new generative AI tools and a really great example of using AI to help teach critical thinking. I wrote a recap of the session over on the CETL blog: https://cetl.olemiss.edu/2023/11/10/recap-beyond-chatgpt-new-tools-to-augment-your-research/
Recap: Beyond ChatGPT - New Tools to Augment Your Research - Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

by Derek Bruff, visiting associate director Earlier this week, I had the chance to host another event in the series on generative AI organized by CETL and AIG. Wednesday’s event was titled “Beyond ChatGPT: New Tools to Augment Your Research,” and it featured speakers Marc Watkins, academic innovation fellow and lecturer of writing and rhetoric […]

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Derek BruffNov 7, 2023

Did I learn how to create a digital badge just so I could give one to Anne Reed, director of digital badges at the University of Buffalo and a guest on my podcast this week?

Yes, yes I did. And you can hear about the experience on the podcast.

https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/13890172-personalized-learning-through-micro-credentials-with-anne-reed

Personalized Learning through Micro-Credentials with Anne Reed - Intentional Teaching

In this episode, I talk with Anne Reed, director of micro-credentials at the University of Buffalo. Her office oversees over one hundred different micro-credentials that can be earned by University of Buffalo students. Micro-credentials at Buffalo...

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Derek BruffNov 7, 2023
I've been hearing about the potential of digital badges in education for a long time, but the University of Buffalo has a thriving micro-credential program. On the latest episode of Intentional Teaching, I talk with Anne Reed, director of that program, about the ways that micro-credentials are enhancing undergrad and graduate education at UB. Listen here: https://intentionalteaching.buzzsprout.com/2069949/13890172-personalized-learning-through-micro-credentials-with-anne-reed
Personalized Learning through Micro-Credentials with Anne Reed - Intentional Teaching

In this episode, I talk with Anne Reed, director of micro-credentials at the University of Buffalo. Her office oversees over one hundred different micro-credentials that can be earned by University of Buffalo students. Micro-credentials at Buffalo...

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