Walker Podcast for Teaching and Learning (WPTL)

Our exclusive podcast interview with Instructional Excellence Conference 2025 speaker, Dr. Michelle Miller:  https://www.michellemillerphd.com/ The interview is a focused follow up to the keynote and workshop from the Walker Center’s annual end of the academic year conference. Dr. Miller spoke with us just after the conference about a variety of teaching and learning topics. We encourage you to ch...

S3 Ep 1 Show Notes (October 2024) Our first interview with Walker Center’s own, Anna Liu. The interview is a focused Anna’s follow-up workshop series to the August 2024 “Week Zero” presentation by Dr. Cindy Nebel. Cindy is one of the Learning Scientists , a group of cognitive psychological scientists interested in research on education, focusing on the science of learning.  Ideas and Resources sha...

Our exclusive podcast interview with Instructional Excellence Conference 2024 speaker, Dr. James Lang . The interview is a focused follow up to the keynote and workshop from the Walker Center’s annual end of the academic year conference. Dr. Lang spoke with us on this podcast season’s topic, Loneliness among young people and social connectio n.  For more background on this topic, reference the Sur...

S2 Ep 1 Show Notes (March 2024) Special Guest Jason Harville, UTC Assistant Director of Academic Initiative  Jason’s UTC website: https://www.utc.edu/enrollment-management-and-student-affairs/housing/staff/residence-life   Our conversation was based on Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and this recent article: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/physical-mental-health/2023/11/08/new-epidemic-g...

Our special interview with Dr. Edward Maloney, author of Learning Innovation and the future of Higher Education. Dr. Maloney is also the executive director of Georgetown’s learning center, The Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS).  The interview is a focused follow-up to his campus visit and WCTL overview report from May 2023. The wildlife minute this month focuses on migrati...

Interview with author Kevin M. Gannon.   This is a special follow-up with Kevin, our 2023 Instructional Excellence keynote speaker , and author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto .  The wildlife minute this week focuses on my personal favorite, the crows!   S1, Ep 3 Show Notes:  Kevin Gannon’s website: https://thetattooedprof.com/   Kevin mentioned James Lang, his site is here: https://www.jame...

Interview with WCTL Staff colleagues with a focus on Generative AI. Chris Johnson and Heather Boyd answer questions and give updates on the resources our Center offers for faculty wanting to learn more about using AI with students and in classes. Also, the intense summer heat is the focus of our monthly wildlife minute. S1, Ep 2 Show Notes: Gen AI tools mentioned include: ChatGPT Bard by Google Da...

This month's episode is all about "back to school!" Our Walker Center director, Victoria Bryan, shares details about all of our new Week Zero events (Aug. 14-18) and then a special author visit announcement!  My sidekick, and world-traveler, Heather gives us a wildlife minute about her new favorite(after birds). We thank you for listening and ask you to send us feedback any time, at...

Our first episode of the Walker Podcast for Teaching and Learning! We talk about our vision for the podcast, what the first season will cover - and share who our guests will be! Plan to join us each month of the Fall 2023 semester to see how we expand on our ideas for the WPTL at UTC! Show Notes: -Upcoming topics include Week Zero w/ our director, Dr. Victoria Bryan -Dr. Bryan will also have an ex...