Teaching in Higher Ed

Teaching in Higher Ed approaches college teaching as careful, human work. The show is organized around interviews and reflective exchanges with educators, scholars, and people in faculty development who are thinking through what learning asks of instructors now. Its conversations rarely rush. They tend to begin with a story from a classroom, a program, or a professional practice, then widen into questions about design, equity, technology, attention, and institutional responsibility. Recent episodes show that range clearly. Norma Montague discusses classroom audits, hidden bias, and the small but consequential choices that help students feel seen and challenged. Teddy Svornas considers agentic AI, file access, GitHub, public information, and the unsettled middle ground of deciding what a model should be allowed to see. Nancy Chick, Peter Felton, and Katarina Mårtensson bring attention to the scholarship of teaching and learning, especially the discipline of forming consequential questions. Matthew Mahavongtrakul turns productivity into an act of care for a future self. Katie Linder's work becomes a way to think about keeping personal knowledge management simple through RSS. Lynn Mead frames ePortfolios less as a technology product than as a reflective process that helps students understand and present their learning. Dani Mann speaks about peace, joy, community, and the value of making room for challenge. Theresa Duong connects pedagogical wellness to the conditions that let students and instructors flourish. Across these conversations, the show favors nuance over slogans. It is warm, but not casual. It is practical, but not quick-fix. Its best moments translate abstract language into concrete decisions: how to structure attendance, how to respond to student grief, how to use AI for reflection, how to notice participation patterns, and how to make learning visible. Teaching in Higher Ed is especially suited to educators who want their teaching practice to become more deliberate, more inclusive, and more sustainable without pretending that any of that is simple.