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Our annual Interface Teaching conference is an opportunity for educators to share their best practices and strategies for teaching and learning. In this special episode, you'll hear presenters from the 2026 Interface conference share key takeaways from their talks on topics like mentorship, experiential learning, mixed experience classrooms, and more!     Featured Guests: 1. Drew Feigum and Isaiah Fetterman, Center for Online Innovation and Production 2. Dr. Feihong Wang, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Dr. Soo Ahn, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 3. Dr. Rui Tammy Huang, College of Education 4. Dr. Becky Piazza, and Truly Hardemon, College of Public Health and Health Profession 5. Dr. Zhiyong Drew Cheng, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences 6. Shashank Santosh, Top Hat 7. May Mansy, College of Engineering

In this new episode of the Teaching Beyond the Podium Podcast series, Laura Jervis of CITT sits down with Ryan Rushing our Textbook Affordability Coordinator to discuss easy ways of how to get started adding accessibility to your courses.

Finding opportunities for play-based learning can be challenging, especially in courses in which play doesn’t seem as intuitive. Dr. TehQuin D. Forbes, Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships Coordinator for the UF Honors Program, explains how incorporating playful activities in the classroom can lead to a range of skills and outcomes to benefit students, and how it can be done with simple modifications to more extensive course design.

In this episode of the Teaching Beyond the Podium Podcast, UF Professor Erika J. Brooke, Ph.D. discusses how she incorporated virtual exchange into her courses. Brooke is an Associate Instructional Professor in Criminology in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law at the University of Florida.

This month’s featured guests, Brooke Brammer and Oliver Grundmann, discuss the importance of communication and collaboration in the course design process and share strategies for effective course design and evaluation. They highlight the importance of incorporating engaging assignments while explaining clearly to students what constitutes responsible use of artificial intelligence for learning. Peer evaluation, course reviews, and student feedback can be used as resources for continuous improvement in individual courses and across instructional units. The conversation touches upon the course review process and how to infuse content with personal teaching styles and learning objectives.

In this episode of Teaching Beyond the Podium Podcast, Brian Harfe, Ph.D., Interim Associate Provost For Teaching And Technology, talks about his teaching background and how he uses Chatbots to enhance teaching and learning. Recorded this Spring, the episode captures the quickly evolving nature of AI in education.

In this episode of the Teaching Beyond the Podium Podcast, Matt Gitzendanner Ph.d., leads us through his background at UF and how you can use HiPerGator in your class!

In this episode, we are joined by Taryrn T. C. Brown, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in Teachers, Schools, and Society from the UF College of Education as she discusses her experience adapting and creating a liquid syllabus in collaboration with instructional designers. Through thoughtful insights and practical examples, this episode provides invaluable takeaways for educators seeking to infuse creativity and engagement into their syllabus.

In this episode of the Beyond the Podium Podcast UF Professor Eleni Bozia, Associate Professor of Classics and Digital Humanities will discuss AI in Humanities Research, Curriculum, and Beyond.

In this episode we chat with Megan Mocko from the Warrington College of Business about her experiences with taking risks and innovating in the classroom.

This episode explores using library special collections as a course tool for experiential learning. Our guest today is Neil Weijer, the Curator of the Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection. Neil shares what lead him to special collections and how they can be used as learning tools in the classroom.

Engaging in research and lab work is often the steppingstone that creates passionate lifelong learners and researchers. You can give your undergraduate students the opportunity to engage in scholarly conversations with international researchers on their most recent works! Listen as Dr. Diba Mani, Instructional Assistant Professor in the College of Health & Human Performance, shares how she developed a research-based virtual exchange experience that her students love.  Music: Motivational by Scott Holmes

Culturally responsive teaching is a research-based approach to teaching that helps connect students' cultures, languages, and life experiences to the work they are doing in class. Dr. Travis Smith, Clinical Assistant Professor in the College of Education, describes how to begin culturally responsive teaching with self-reflection about our teaching. Then, we can learn more about our students’ cultural identities to create a classroom environment where all students can thrive. Music: Motivational by Scott Holmes

Need a little help with course design? Add an instructional designer (ID) to your teaching toolbox! Laura Jervis and Allyson Haskell, Instructional Designers at UF’s Center for Instructional Technology and Training, share how they can assist you, and some quick tips for designing a successful course.  Music: Motivational by Scott Holmes

Making connections between your research and teaching undergraduate courses is not always as easy as we would like. Fortunately, teaching and research do not have to be mutually exclusive! Dr. Anthony Auletta, lecturer in the Entomology and Nematology department at UF, has successfully merged his passions for teaching and research into a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that his students love! Listen as he shares ideas for starting a CURE in your courses.  Music: Motivational by Scott Holmes