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 in

Episode 16: A Higher-Education Rebel With a Cause

Oct 19th, 2016 9m 16s

Sarah Short, who has taught some 44,000 students over a half-century at Syracuse U., wants to see more classroom interaction.

Episode 15: Online Education Is Now a Global Market

Oct 5th, 2016 13m 32s

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 willin

Episode 14: How Colleges Should Adapt for a Networked Age

Sep 21st, 2016 14m 50s

Author Joshua Cooper Ramo points to a shift in attitudes toward college -- and authority figures in general.

Episode 13: A Comedian and an Academic Walk Into a Podcast …

Sep 7th, 2016 13m 27s

Shane Mauss, a stand-up comic who likes picking professors’ brains, has become an unlikely but engaging science educator.

Episode 12: You Don’t Know Your Students. This Professor Hopes to Change That.

Aug 24th, 2016 26m 19s

Michael Wesch, an associate professor of anthropology at Kansas State, joins his students for an unusual tour of their lives beyond the classroom.

Episode 11: Are MOOCs Forever?

Jul 14th, 2016 14m 19s

Coursera’s Daphne Koller discusses plans for the future of a format that some thought would never last this long.

Episode 10: Remember Second Life? Its Fans Hope to Bring VR Back to the Classroom

Jun 1st, 2016 14m 37s

Evolving virtual-reality technology holds great promise for higher education, argues A.J. Kelton, director of emerging and instructional technology at Montclair State University.

Episode 9: Why Georgetown's Randy Bass Wants to 'Rebundle' College

May 25th, 2016 12m 4s

Believe it or not, he says, traditional institutions have a long history of innovation. His university's project on the future of higher education intends to continue that trend.

Episode 8: Why Audrey Watters Thinks Tech Is a Trojan Horse Set to ‘Dismantle’ the Academy

May 18th, 2016 13m 40s

A prominent critic of education technology has a new podcast, where she deconstructs what she calls the “Silicon Valley narrative.”

Episode 7: Carol Dweck Says Theory of Educational Mind-Set Is Often Misunderstood

May 11th, 2016 11m 19s

The Stanford professor responds to critics and shares some of her latest ideas about how to help students push forward when they have setbacks.

Episode 6: This Mongolian Teenager Aced a MOOC. Now He Wants to Widen Their Impact.

May 4th, 2016 9m 26s

Battushig Myanganbayar enrolled at MIT after crushing one of its first massive open online courses. And he has some ideas about how they could make a real difference in the developing world.

Episode 5: Dissecting One (Extremely Boring) College Lecture

Apr 27th, 2016 10m 50s

Three teaching experts offer color commentary on a classroom scene, and discuss the pros and cons of this enduring teaching format.

Episode 4: Why This MIT Dean Is Leaving Her Job to Start a New Kind of University

Apr 20th, 2016 11m 19s

Christine Ortiz explains how her radical project was sparked by interdisciplinary body-armor research and some time spent on a technology-free retreat.

Episode 3: Tyler Cowen Says Online Professors Should Think Like Bloggers

Apr 13th, 2016 11m 28s

The economics blogger and George Mason University professor says the distinction between universities and non-university educators is “crumbling.” Just look at his Marginal Revolution University.

Episode 2: Google’s ‘Education Evangelist’ Says Students Are Changing Faster Than Colleges

Apr 6th, 2016 13m 12s

Jaime Casap represents one of the country’s most powerful tech companies. He’s also a voice for minority students from poor families.

Episode 1: How Sal Khan Hopes to Remake Education

Mar 29th, 2016 13m 50s

Khan Academy has become a force. Its founder, Salman Khan, talks about his vision for the future, and what he thinks the college of tomorrow should look like.

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