About Recombinant Teaching: STEM Education Office Hours with Dr. Justin Shaffer
This is not your typical higher education interview podcast.
Recombinant Teaching: STEM Education Office Hours is a call-in advice show dedicated to YOU, the instructors, professors, TAs, and administrators in the trenches of STEM higher education. Whether you are teaching a large gateway STEM course or a small senior seminar, this show is for you.
With over 13 years of experience and having taught more than 10,000 students, your host, Dr. Justin Shaffer (https://www.recombinanteducation.com), has seen it all. Each week, he (and sometimes with guest co-hosts) unpacks your listener-submitted questions to provide practical and actionable strategies on STEM pedagogy, student success, academic careers, and everything in between. Let’s work together to keep on improving STEM education.
Have a question? Click the "Submit a Question" link (https://www.recombinanteducation.com/podcast/) to be featured on the show.
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Justin Shaffer | STEM Education Expert and Professor
Jim Hutchins returns to the show to ask a provocative question: are learning objectives dead? Listen up to see how this one goes!
Jim Hutchins spent 45 years teaching medical and allied health students. Now he tries to bring beneficence and justice to students by creating free learning materials. You can follow him and find his materials on SubStack (https://substack.com/@jimhutchins) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hutchins-26a97413). Jim welcomes collaborations. A learner at ANY level can contribute.
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Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together. (https://www.recombinanteducation.com)
www.recombinanteducation.com (http://www.recombinanteducation.com)
14 Oct 2026
How can interleaving be used to improve student learning?
On this episode Justin chats with Akshata Naik about how to use interleaving and other techniques to improve student learning, especially in an anatomy and physiology course.
Dr. Akshata Naik, an assistant professor and physiology educator at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, located in Michigan, roughly 30 miles north of Detroit. Learn more about her at the links below.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshatarnaik/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/akshatarnaik/)
https://www.anaikowl.com/ (https://www.anaikowl.com/)
Here is a link to the core concepts in physiology book (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4939-6909-8) that Akshata referred to.
Want to be a part of the show? Submit a question (http://recombinanteducation.com/podcast)!
Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together. Check out Justin's website to learn more.
www.recombinanteducation.com (http://www.recombinanteducation.com/)
12 Oct 2026
How do you build ADA guidelines into your digital course materials?
Alison Roth joins the show to discuss the pertinent question of building accessibility into our digital course materials given the upcoming ADA deadline. More importantly, though Alison and Justin how this should be a normal part of your coursework and how this will leave lasting impacts once done.
Alison Roth is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Medical Physics at Purdue University. Check out her work here: https://hhs.purdue.edu/mp-learning-lab/ (https://hhs.purdue.edu/mp-learning-lab/)
Want to be a part of the show? Submit a question (http://recombinanteducation.com/podcast)!
Learn how you, your department, or your institution can work with Justin to improve STEM education together. (https://www.recombinanteducation.com/)
www.recombinanteducation.com (http://www.recombinanteducation.com/)
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