https://csedpodcast.org/tags/season-4/Recent content in season 4 on CS-Ed Podcast Home PageHugo -- gohugo.ioen-USMon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e19_engagecsedu/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e19_engagecsedu/Episode Summary Joining us today are Brian O’Neill, Associate Professor at Quinnipiac University, and Olivier St-Cyr, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream at the University of Toronto, co-editors-in-chief of EngageCSEdu. EngageCSEdu is a place to find and share peer-reviewed open educational resources (OER), including assignments, labs, and classroom activities for computer science courses. In this episode, we discuss what you can find in the collection, how it is expanding beyond introductory courses, and how you can turn an assignment or activity you’ve developed into a peer-reviewed ACM publication.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e18_ai_not_learning_obsolete/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e18_ai_not_learning_obsolete/Episode Summary In this episode, we talk about how AI has not made learning obsolete with Dr. Neil Brown, Senior Research Fellow at King’s College London in the UK. We start with Neil explaining how learning works by using prior knowledge to organize and make sense of new knowledge more easily. Without chunking that prior knowledge, it is much harder to understand and use more advanced knowledge, even when AI makes all knowledge available.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e17_semi_flipped/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e17_semi_flipped/Episode Summary In this episode, we talk about semi-flipped teaching with our guest, Diane Horton from the University of Toronto and co-host of In the Loop, a podcast for computer science undergraduates. We both teach semi-flipped, where students learn foundational material before class to make room for high-value activities such as addressing misconceptions, building intuition, discovery, peer instruction, and deeper reasoning. However, our implementations are different. So, we compare our approaches to prep work, classroom activities, and motivating students to come prepared, all in service of making the most of the limited time we have with students in the classroom.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e16_teaching_faculty_hiring/Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e16_teaching_faculty_hiring/Episode Summary Hiring teaching faculty lacks strong community norms, creating a heavy burden on candidates and costs for departments. In this episode, we talk with Michael Hilton from Carnegie Mellon University about a Computing Research Association (CRA) memo he co-authored called Best Practices for Hiring Teaching Faculty in Research Computing Departments. We discuss the practical consequences of this lack of norms, how departments can make hiring better for candidates so they can put their best foot forward, and how to better assess candidates.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e15_lit_mapping/Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e15_lit_mapping/Episode Summary In this teaching practice byte (TPB), Dr. Brian Harrington discusses his SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2025 paper on Literature Mapping, a scaffolded, scalable, low-overhead way to introduce undergraduate students to research and bootstrap a student research group. We discuss how literature mapping helps students practice reading many papers in progressively more depth. His process assigns each paper to two different students, builds in flexibility for students who leave partway through, and culminates in a publishable artifact that students can be proud of.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e14_genai_student_impacts/Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e14_genai_student_impacts/Episode Summary Students are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in their learning. But what are the implications of this? In this episode, we are joined by Irene Hou, PhD student at UC San Diego in the Design lab, to talk about her recent research, which draws on interviews with students across multiple universities. We discuss GenAI’s impact on how students seek help and how it affects students’ social ties, sense of belonging, and views of peers.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e13_help_seeking/Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e13_help_seeking/Episode Summary All students seek help, but what is academic help-seeking actually? In this episode, we are joined by Shao-Heng Ko, Ph.D. candidate at Duke University and our host’s advisee, to talk about all things student help-seeking. Shao-Heng explains help-seeking as a metacognitive process and introduces a framework for understanding the many ways students look for help—from classmates and discussion forums to office hours and generative AI. We discuss what students value most (spoiler: timeliness), how instructors can audit their own help ecosystems, and how different student groups navigate these resources.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e12_tpb_meet_the_prof/Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e12_tpb_meet_the_prof/Episode Summary In this teaching practice byte (TPB), we talk to Professor Emeritus William G. Griswold about his teaching practice Meet the Professor, where he has short, small-group meetings with every student in his 200+ student course. Bill originally shared this practice as a SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2024 experience report. In our conversation, we discussed how the practice fosters engagement, why group meetings proved better than one-on-one, how such connections are increasingly valuable as AI tools reduce traditional social interactions, and his latest updates and reflections on the practice since his experience report.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e11_teaching_faculty_careers/Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e11_teaching_faculty_careers/Episode Summary In this episode, Dr. Lindsay Jamieson, Teaching Professor and Associate Dean of Teaching Faculty for Northeastern’s Khoury College, shares her journey from a small liberal arts college to being Associate Dean of Teaching Faculty. We discuss what teaching-focused careers entail, how to assess positions, and what support and growth look like in these roles. Lindsay offers advice for making career shifts and reminds us that it’s always okay to change course if your current job doesn’t fit.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e10_tpb_team_communication_neurodivergence/Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e10_tpb_team_communication_neurodivergence/Episode Summary In this teaching practice byte (TPB), we bring you Professor Andrew Begel to discuss how to support communication for project teams through the lens of supporting our neurodivergent students. We first discuss briefly why there is a greater awareness of neurodiversity. Then we go into how to support student communication within a team setting, regardless of your students’ neurotype, since it turns out all students need to be taught how to communicate more effectively!https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e9_academic_mentoring/Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e9_academic_mentoring/Episode Summary Dr. Valerie Taylor from Argonne National Laboratory joins us in this episode to talk about mentoring in academia. Mentoring, at its core, starts with asking questions and seeking advice, as opposed to finding a mentor. In this episode, we discuss the ins and outs of mentoring through Valerie’s many amazing stories from her career, from identifying what questions to ask and how to say no. You can also download this episode directly.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e8_tpb_multi_part_q_a/Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e8_tpb_multi_part_q_a/Episode Summary Dr. Luther Tychonievich from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign shares with us his multi-step Q&A process where he solicits questions from his students to get more diverse questions and strongly signals to them that he wants questions. Dr. Tychonievich goes into detail about how to shorten the exercise if you have less time, as well as considerations and ways to respond to the questions when an answer is not necessarily appropriate.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e7_peer_instruction/Mon, 04 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e7_peer_instruction/Episode Summary In this episode, we got to continue talking to Dr. Beth Simon about peer instruction from the prior episode’s peer instruction Teaching Practice Byte. Our host, Kristin Stephens-Martinez, shares her experience with peer instruction and asks Beth for help to improve. The episode ends with three main takeaways that Kristin has since used in her course. You can also download this episode directly. Episode Notes Craig Zilles, David P.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e6_tpb_peer_instruction/Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e6_tpb_peer_instruction/Episode Summary Peer instruction is a way to move the easy-to-learn content to before lecture, so you can spend more time during lecture on developing understanding. In this teaching practice byte, we talk to Dr. Beth Simon from UC San Diego about peer instruction, what context she’s used it in, how she does it, and nuanced details that aren’t always discussed when reading about this active learning technique. You can also download this episode directly.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e5_parsons_problems/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e5_parsons_problems/Episode Summary In this episode, we have Dr. Barbara Ericson, assistant professor from the School of Information at the University of Michigan. Our topic is Parson’s Problems, which are like mixed-up code chunks that students need to put in the correct places. We discuss the research behind them, how she uses them in her class, and her current work investigating how to use Parson’s Problems to improve student learning.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e4_tpb_coding_tutor/Mon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e4_tpb_coding_tutor/Episode Summary Philip Guo, an Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego, built Python Tutor, which is neither just for Python nor really a tutor. It’s actually a tool to visualize what code is doing! In today’s episode, he talks about the other programming languages it supports (Java, C, and C++), gives examples of how he uses it, and explains the nuances of when to use it.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e3_teaching_faculty_job_title/Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e3_teaching_faculty_job_title/Episode Summary In this episode, we talk with Professor Adam Blank, Teaching Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech. Our conversation focuses on college teaching faculty that only have a master’s degree by discussing how the job title should be about a person’s skills and knowledge, as opposed to the degrees they hold. We start off by defining terms, then move on to what a teaching faculty actually does and needs to know to do the job and how a Ph.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e2_tpb_physical_java_models/Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e2_tpb_physical_java_models/Episode Summary Teaching Practice Byte (TPB): In our first TPB episode we invite Colleen Lewis back to the podcast to talk about her physical models of Java that help her teach students how Java objects work. Colleen was originally on our podcast way back in Season one! We go into detail about what kinds of classes she uses these models in, what the models are, how she uses them, where they would and would not work, and where the idea came from.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e1_academic_misconduct/Mon, 06 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4e1_academic_misconduct/Episode Summary We are kicking off season 4 with a deep conversation on academic misconduct with Dr. Oluwakemi Ola from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada, and Dr. Mia Minnes from the University of California, San Diego. This episode was inspired from a panel we were on at the 2023 SIGCSE Technical Symposium called “Who’s Cheating Whom: Changing the Narrative Around Academic Misconduct.” In this episode, we go into more detail as we discuss how academic misconduct is handled at our respective institutions, how it impacts us, how our thinking about misconduct has changed over time, what we do to teach our students about misconduct, and how the systems around us influence our and the students’ decisions around misconduct.https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4_teaser/Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://csedpodcast.org/blog/s4_teaser/You can also download this teaser directly. Transcript Hello All! This is the CS-Ed Podcast. A podcast where we talk with educators about teaching computer science! We are gearing up for season 4 and we have big plans! First, we’ve created a Patreon! Yes, that’s right, the podcast is moving to become self-sustaining through audience support. If you’d like to keep this podcast ad and sponsor free, please consider becoming a Patreon member.