Episodes

  • Episode 17: If You Had $45 Billion, What Would You Do to Improve Education?

    Episode 17: If You Had $45 Billion, What Would You Do to Improve Education?
    Nov 30 2016
    Jim Shelton, now heading up the education portfolio at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, isn’t giving any details yet. But in this podcast, he emphasizes the value of bringing learning scientists together with educators to improve learning and increase equality.
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    22 mins
  • Episode 16: A Higher-Education Rebel With a Cause

    Episode 16: A Higher-Education Rebel With a Cause
    Oct 19 2016
    Sarah Short, who has taught some 44,000 students over a half-century at Syracuse U., wants to see more classroom interaction.
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    9 mins
  • Episode 15: Online Education Is Now a Global Market

    Episode 15: Online Education Is Now a Global Market
    Oct 5 2016
    MOOCs may have been overhyped, but their impact is far from over, says Simon Nelson, of the online-learning provider FutureLearn, a spin-off of the British Open University. And traditional colleges have a huge opportunity if they’re just willing to think a little differently.
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    14 mins
  • Episode 14: How Colleges Should Adapt for a Networked Age

    Episode 14: How Colleges Should Adapt for a Networked Age
    Sep 21 2016
    Author Joshua Cooper Ramo points to a shift in attitudes toward college -- and authority figures in general.
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    15 mins
  • Episode 13: A Comedian and an Academic Walk Into a Podcast …

    Episode 13: A Comedian and an Academic Walk Into a Podcast …
    Sep 7 2016
    Shane Mauss, a stand-up comic who likes picking professors’ brains, has become an unlikely but engaging science educator.
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    13 mins
  • Episode 12: You Don’t Know Your Students. This Professor Hopes to Change That.

    Episode 12: You Don’t Know Your Students. This Professor Hopes to Change That.
    Aug 24 2016
    Michael Wesch, an associate professor of anthropology at Kansas State, joins his students for an unusual tour of their lives beyond the classroom.
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    26 mins
  • Episode 11: Are MOOCs Forever?

    Episode 11: Are MOOCs Forever?
    Jul 14 2016
    Coursera’s Daphne Koller discusses plans for the future of a format that some thought would never last this long.
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    14 mins
  • Episode 10: Remember Second Life? Its Fans Hope to Bring VR Back to the Classroom

    Episode 10: Remember Second Life? Its Fans Hope to Bring VR Back to the Classroom
    Jun 1 2016
    Evolving virtual-reality technology holds great promise for higher education, argues A.J. Kelton, director of emerging and instructional technology at Montclair State University.
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    15 mins