Designed for Learning

About Designed for Learning

Hosted by acclaimed teaching scholar Jim Lang, Designed for Learning is a podcast from Notre Dame Learning, a collaborative unit at the University of Notre Dame that works with faculty and other instructors as they seek to enhance learning for their students. In that spirit, the show features interviews with teachers, experts in teaching and learning in higher education, authors of new books and resources, and anyone else we can learn from. New episodes are released monthly.

Publisher

Notre Dame Learning

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Dec 2024

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Hinda Mandell on … Crocheting in the Classroom?

   It used to be that instructors primarily assessed student learning via printed documents that were turned in physically—papers written on actual paper, blue book exams, etc. Over the last couple of decades, those artifacts largely transitioned into digital products, which students submit through an online learning management system. In addition to efficiency gains, the shift reduced the amount of paper being shuffled back and forth between teacher and students. With the presence of AI ever in...

2. 

   3 Sept 2026

   Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on Helping Students See They Matter

   In higher education’s current landscape, many thinkers in teaching and learning are arguing that we need to emphasize that college is more than just the acquisition of knowledge and skills. We want students to recognize the value of learning in community, listening and speaking to the people around them. We want them to feel like they belong, that they have a place in our courses and on our campuses. We want them to develop confidence in their voices, to feel comfortable sharing their unique ...

3. 

   6 Aug 2026

   Annette Vee on AI-Aware Teaching

   The words and metaphors we choose to describe our interactions with artificial intelligence are telling. Do we view it as a stochastic parrot? A thought partner? A form of co-intelligence? A sycophantic assistant? Each of these phrases reflects a different set of beliefs and attitudes and likely shapes our engagement with AI. How instructors talk about the technology’s relationship to their teaching goals can be just as revealing. To say we want students to develop AI fluency, for example, me...

Who has been a guest on Designed for Learning

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Rachel Branco
• Lily Abadal
• Jane Doe
• Jim Lang

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

29,290,381

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

16

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

32

Contact Designed for Learning

Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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