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    • Bruff, Derek (Vanderbilt University, 2018-03-21)
      In this episode, we hear from Margaret Rubega about her #birdclass assignment. Rubega is an associate professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut. She’s also Connecticut’s ...
    • Bruff, Derek (Vanderbilt University, 2018-08-06)
      In this episode, we hear from Bryan Dewsbury, assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of Rhode Island. He’s incredibly passionate about student success, and he uses technology in ways that are fully ...
    • Bruff, Derek; Anderson, Cliff (Vanderbilt University, 2018-08-20)
      In this episode we feature an interview with Ben Rydal Shapiro, a postdoc at the School for Interactive Computing at Georgia Tech. Ben was trained as an architect, and he brought that perspective to his PhD research in ...
    • Bruff, Derek (Vanderbilt University, 2018-09-03)
      For this episode, Derek Bruff talked with Bahiyyah Muhammad, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Howard University. She teaches courses as part of the national Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program, courses ...
    • Bruff, Derek; Johnson, Stacy (Vanderbilt University, 2018-09-17)
      In this episode, we feature an interview Stacey Johnson conducted for her podcast, We Teach Languages, with Gabriele Dillmann, associate professor of German at Denison University, a small liberal arts college in Ohio. ...
    • Bruff, Derek; Sloop, John (Vanderbilt University, 2018-10-01)
      This fall, two members of the Leading Lines team, working completely independently, brought interviews with university educators about shared language programs. In each case, a group of colleges and universities got together ...
    • Bruff, Derek; Mallon, Melissa (Vanderbilt University, 2018-10-15)
      In this episode, we hear from Julia Feerrar, head of digital initiatives at the Virginia Tech Libraries. She speaks with producer Melissa Mallon about a framework for digital literacy that she helped develop, a framework ...
    • Bruff, Derek (Vanderbilt University, 2018-12-05)
      Technology doesn’t have to be digital to be useful in teaching. In this episode, we feature an interview with Kimberly Rogers, who uses games and simulations in her sociology courses, two very analog technologies. Kimberly ...
    • Bruff, Derek (Vanderbilt University, 2019-11-19)
      In the game Monarch, players compete to the be the heir to the throne. The game is cleverly designed and has amazing art, but what makes it different is that all the characters are women. The dying monarch is the queen, ...
    • Bruff, Derek (Vanderbilt University, 2018-12-03)
      In this episode, we speak with Tia Smith, Bellsouth professor of mass communication at Xavier University of Louisiana. She joined Xavier in 2015 as department head of mass communications, and her research focuses on gender, ...
    • Bruff, Derek; Mallon, Melissa (Vanderbilt University, 2018-12-17)
      In this episode, we take a look at the work of the New Literacies Alliance. The NLA is a cross-institutional collaboration among librarians to create open educational resources intended to teach information literacy. They ...
    • Bruff, Derek (Vanderbilt University, 2019-01-07)
      We’re starting our 2019 season with an interview with Anna Bostwick Flaming, associate director at the Center for Teaching in the Office of Teaching, Learning, & Technology at the University of Iowa. Anna heads up the ...
    • Bruff, Derek; Sloop, John (Vanderbilt University, 2019-01-21)
      In this episode, we hear from Christopher Parrish, senior vice president and portfolio general manager at 2U. 2U is what’s sometimes known as an online program management, or OPM, provider. OPM providers are for-profit ...
    • Bruff, Derek; Stacey, Johnson (Vanderbilt University, 2019-02-04)
      In this episode, the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching’s assistant director for educational technology, Stacey Johnson, recently talked with Kylie about a new practicum the CFT launched aimed at preparing grad students to ...
    • Bruff, Derek (Vanderbilt University, 2019-02-18)
      In this episode, we talk with Mike Caulfield, director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University Vancouver and head of the Digital Polarization Initiative at the American Democracy Project. Mike talks ...
    • Bruff, Derek; Andrade, Paula (Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-04)
      In this episode, Paula Andrade, a second-year graduate student in history here at Vanderbilt who is currently serving as the Center for Teaching’s HASTAC Scholar, interviews another HASTAC Scholar for Leading Lines. Nathan ...
    • Bruff, Derek (Vanderbilt University, 2019-03-18)
      In this episode, we first hear a short, speculative fiction audio story by Vanderbilt undergraduate Sarah Saxton Strassberg called “Hagar Rising” that explores the future of gene editing. Sarah Saxton created this piece ...
    • Bruff, Derek; Narasimham, Gayathri (Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-01)
      Here on Leading Lines, we’re exploring the future of educational technology, and we have a team of producers who make sure that we consider all kinds of topics, including ones some of us may be skeptical about. Producer ...
    • Bruff, Derek; Sloop, John (Vanderbilt University, 2019-04-15)
      Back in Episode 52, Leading Lines producer John Sloop interviewed Chris Parrish, senior vice president and portfolio general manager at 2U. 2U is an online program management, or OPM, provider. They work with universities ...
    • Bruff, Derek (Vanderbilt University, 2019-05-06)
      How do you teach an earth science course entirely online? In this episode, we talk with Rodolfo Rego, senior instructor in the department of earth and environment at Florida International University. He develops and teaches ...