Social Learning Amplified hosted by Eric Mazur

This podcast hosted by Eric Mazur, an internationally recognized educational innovator in Social Learning and Peer Instruction, brings candid conversations with educators who are finding new ways to engage and motivate their students inside and outside the classroom. Each episode of Social Learning Amplified will give you real-life examples and practical strategies you can put into practice in your own courses.

Social Learning Amplified hosted by Eric Mazur is a education podcast hosted by Perusall, with 27 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Perusall hosts Social Learning Amplified hosted by Eric Mazur, a education show with 27 episodes published.

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  Episode #6

  If Nothing's Going Wrong, You're Not Really Teaching

  Sep 30, 202626 minS4

  Teaching is unpredictable — so why do we pretend it isn't? In this episode of the Social Learning Amplified podcast, Eric Mazur sits down with Jessamyn Neuhaus , director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence and professor in the School of Education at Syracuse University, to talk about her book, Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom. Jessamyn unpacks the STIR framework (Stop, Think, Identify, Repair) for navigating classroom disruptions, explores how traditional grading fuels distrust and disconnection, and presents that the goal isn't fewer snafus — it's a healthier relationship with the fact that things can, and will, go wrong.Along the way, she and Eric dig into student-centered learning, power dynamics in the classroom, and why "the super teacher" is a myth worth letting go of.Get Snafu Edu: https://www.oupress.com/teaching-engaging-and-thriving-in-higher-ed-series/

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  Episode #5

  What If Grades Are Lying to Us? Rethinking Learning as Observable Behavior

  Sep 9, 202623 minS4

  In this episode of Social Learning Amplified, host Eric Mazur sits down with Dr. Jarek Janio, ESL assistant professor and faculty coordinator at Santa Ana College and founder of the Student Learning Outcomes (SLO) Symposium, to unpack the case for treating learning as observable competency rather than inferring it from proxies like grades, attendance, or engagement. Eric and Jarek explore the difference between performance-based and product-based assessment, how ungraded and multiple-measures approaches can reduce bias in evaluation, and what it might mean to build a classroom — and a student-teacher relationship — around a shared, visible record of ability. Get Interrogating, Disrupting, and Reframing College Student Learning Outcomes: https://www.routledge.com/Interrogating-Disrupting-and-Reframing-College-Student-Learning-Outcomes/Janio/p/book/9781041194194

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  Social Learning Amplified hosted by Eric Mazur

  How to Fix Educational Inequity, One Classroom at a Time

  Aug 20, 202628 min

  In this episode of Social Learning Amplified, host Eric Mazur talks with David Gooblar, associate professor of English and director of General Education Literature at the University of Iowa, about his latest book, One Classroom at a Time . David takes us through how his research exposed a gap between what we know helps marginalized students learn and what most equity initiatives actually do, and why he came to see teaching itself as an act of social justice. David and Eric explore why grades so often override meaningful feedback, and how starting conversations with shared goals rather than methods can win over skeptical colleagues. They look at what institutions need to change, from tenure incentives to class sizes, to back up equity commitments with real structural action in a grounded, research-driven case for putting students, not systems, at the center of teaching. Get One Classroom at a Time: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674297487

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  Episode #3

  Why Do We Teach Math No One Uses?

  Jul 24, 202623 minS4

  In this episode of Social Learning Amplified, host Eric Mazur is joined by Ted Dintersmith , author of the newly released Aftermath: The Life-Changing Math That All Schools Must Teach , to make the case that math is the last great frontier of school reform — and why AI is forcing that reckoning to happen now. Together, they explore why math carries such outsized weight in schools despite how little of it adults actually use, and how standardized tests, APs, and college admissions keep outdated curricula locked in place. Dintersmith shares classroom examples of teaching math as a way of thinking rather than a set of memorized procedures, and offers practical advice for parents and teachers ready to act now, rather than wait for the next decade of reform. Get Aftermath : aftermaththebook.com

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  Episode #2

  The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching: Live from Perusall Exchange 2026

  Jun 25, 202658 minS4

  How do we teach and assess in a world where AI can do so much of the work for us? In this special live recording from the Perusall Exchange 2026, Eric Mazur sits down with the three authors of the highly anticipated The Norton Guide to AI-Aware Teaching (W.W. Norton, Summer 2026): Annette Vee , Associate Professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh; Marc Watkins , Director of the AI Institute for Teachers at the University of Mississippi; and Derek Bruff, Associate Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at UVA. Together, they explore why "AI-aware" is the right framework for this moment — not resistant, not fully integrated, but grounded in pedagogy. The conversation covers making thinking visible in the age of AI, rethinking assessment from artifacts to performance, the dangers of the "illusion of mastery," and why talking openly with students about AI might be the most important move an educator can make right now. Whether you're overwhelmed by AI in the classroom or eager to engage with it more intentionally, this episode offers both inspiration and practical first steps. Want to be part of the conversation? Read alongside the authors in their 4-week community book event on Perusall -- starting July 6th! Learn more & register: www.perusall.com/engage

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