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What Learning Looks Like

NYU Arts & Science Office of Teaching Excellence &

Education

Frequency: 1 episode/28d. Total Eps: 7

Every day our team in the NYU Arts & Science Office of Teaching Excellence & Innovation has amazing conversations with teachers, learners, and administrators about what learning REALLY looks like in higher education. We’re excited to share some of those conversations with you through this podcast.

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Episode 1 WLLL Chris Whitehead

Friday, September 12, 2025 • Duration 42:38

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and University Learning Center director Christopher Whitehead, who is Assistant Dean for Academic Support & Development in the College of Arts & Science.

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Chris’s Gen Chem 1 Vlog:

Kyla Scanlon, “The Most Valuable Quality in the World Is Friction” https://kyla.substack.com/p/the-most-valuable-commodity-in-the

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Brown, P. C., Roediger, H. L. III, & McDaniel, M. A. (2014)

How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens, Benedict Cary (20140.

Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning, Elizabeth L. Bjork and Robert Bjork https://bjorklab.psych.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2016/04/EBjork_RBjork_2011.pdf

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Episode 2 WLLL Eugene Plavskin

Friday, September 12, 2025 • Duration 38:58

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Professor Eugene Plavskin, Assistant Clinical Professor of Biology. Eugene is course director for the Principles of Biology introductory course, which has more than 700 students each fall.

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"Enhancing Student Success: Using Peer-Led Video Modules to Teach Metacognition & the Hidden Curriculum in a Large Enrollment Introductory Biology Course"

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Episode 3 WLLL Scott Palmer

Friday, September 12, 2025 • Duration 36:27

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Scott Palmer, Senior Coordinator for Digital Learning and Innovation at NYU’s La Pietra campus in Florence, Italy. Scott has been a professor and administrator at La Pietra for more than two decades.

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Walker Percy, “The Loss of the Creature” https://archive.org/details/loss_creature/page/n3/mode/2up
Florence Underground, NYU Florence Student Radio Project https://www.novaradio.info/programmi/nyu-florence-radio/ Radio Assignment Rubric: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fNNj0ZLMXcuzlcPEzwc4KU0q7cve91lP5qJgdQNdCDE/edit?tab=t.0
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, Benedict Anderson (1983).
“Political Objects: Blending Cultural Analysis and Artistic Production” by Scott Palmer, https://wp.nyu.edu/ls-thinkglobalteachlocal/2018/05/04/political-objects-blending-cultural-analysis-and-artistic-production/

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Episode 4 WLLL John O'Hara

Friday, September 12, 2025 • Duration 36:12

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and John O’Hara, Director of Faculty Engagement and Program Innovation in the College of Arts & Science’s Office of Academic Affairs.

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Episode 5 WLLL John Henssler

Friday, September 12, 2025 • Duration 40:33

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and John Henssler, Clinical Professor and Director of Undergraduate Organic Teaching Laboratories in the NYU Chemistry Department.

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Learn more about Professor John Henssler

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Episode 6 WLLL Bridget McFarland

Thursday, December 18, 2025 • Duration 46:58

A conversation between NYU A&S TEI's Lucy Appert and Bridget McFarland, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Expository Writing Program at NYU, who has been using alternative or contract grading in her first year writing course for the past four years.

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Mercer Street: https://wp.nyu.edu/mercerstreet/
EWP Course Objectives: https://cas.nyu.edu/ewp/ewp-courses.html
Asao B. Inoue, “Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom, 2nd Edition”
DasBender, Gita, Mickelson, Nate, Souffrant, Leah. “Contract Grading and the Development of an Efficacious Writerly Habitus” (2023) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2c4979b8

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Episode 7 WLLL Amanda Irvin

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 • Duration 43:37

A conversation with Amanda Irvin, Executive Director of the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning.

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Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning podcast
Mitchell J. Nathan, Kenneth R. Koedinger, and Martha W. Alibali, “Expert Blind Spot: When Content Knowledge Eclipses Pedagogical Content Knowledge”
Joshua Eyler: https://olemiss.edu/profiles/jreyler.php
Jesse Stommel: www.jessestommel.com/books/
Todd Zakrajsek: https://www.toddzakrajsek.com/publications
The Critical Thinking Institute at UC Berkeley
Ambrose, S. A., Bridges, M. W., DiPietro, M., Lovett, M. C., & Norman, M. K. (2010). How learning works: Seven research-based principles for smart teaching. Jossey-Bass/Wiley.
Alfredo Spagna: https://podcast.show/dead-ideas/episode/94165225/
Michelle Miller: https://www.michellemillerphd.com/books
Carl Weiman: https://profiles.stanford.edu/carl-wieman?tab=publications

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