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Kevin Gannon is the director of the Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, and he’s als...
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The Teach Better Podcast is a series of conversations with teachers about teaching. We talk mostly with faculty in higher education, but will occasionally talk with other teachers too. Your...

Kevin Gannon is the director of the Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, and he’s als...

The evidence is clear that when students work actively in the classroom, they learn more. It's also true that most of the classrooms we teac...

Our guest today, Doug Robertson, is one of the best teachers on the planet. He teaches 4th grade at Powell Valley Elementary School outside...

This fall Doug and Edward both taught classes of their own. In their latest episode, they reflect on their challenges, what they tried, and...

Jose Vasquez has been teaching economics at the University of Illinois for 14 years. He teaches one of the largest introductory microeconomi...

Justin Cerenzia teaches history at St George’s School in Middletown, Rhode Island. We don’t usually have guests from high schools on the sho...

Outside observers can give instructors valuable formative feedback, and with the right observers and the right instruments, classroom observ...

Monroe Weber-Shirk has taught engineering at Cornell for 24 years, and in 2005 he started the AguaClara Cornell program where he works close...

Mac Stetzer from the University of Maine Physics Department is an active physics education researcher with lots of experience teaching teach...

Everyone has an opinion about course evaluations, but most of these opinions are based on personal anecdotes and armchair speculation. Our g...

Andrea Stevenson Won is an assistant professor in the Cornell Communication Department where she directs the Virtual Embodiment Lab. She stu...

Cornell psychologist Robert Sternberg has done seminal work on creativity, wisdom, and cognitive styles. He cares deeply about higher educat...

In this episode we take a walk through our archive and share some amazing examples of extreme teaching. These include college classes in pri...

Laura Gibbs has been teaching mythology and folklore online since 2002 for the University of Oklahoma. For the past five summers, Doug has t...

Mark Urban-Lurain is the Associate Director for Engineering Education Research at Michigan State University. He's also the Principle Investi...

Michelle Smith is an Associate Professor in the School of Biology and Ecology at the University of Maine, and she's one of the world's leadi...

Modeling Instruction (MI) is a curriculum and pedagogy based on the idea that science learning involves creation, use, validation, and revis...

Teddy Svoronos is a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He’s most well known for his creative use of t...

Ileen Devault is a historian in Cornell’s Industrial and Labor Relations school. In this episode she talks with us how about how she shares...

Our guest is Natasha Holmes, an Assistant Professor in the Cornell Physics Department who specializes in physics education research. For the...

In this blockbuster finale of #edtechsummer, Edward and Doug invite three experts to share their thoughts on the future of educational techn...

Edward and Doug discuss several low-tech alternatives to technology products they've discussed in earlier episodes of #edtechsummer. Laminat...

Economists study systems where individuals make decisions about buying, selling, and investment, and interesting patterns emerge. As in many...

In our latest installment of #edtechsummer we focus on digital textbooks. These products go far beyond simple digital versions of the text,...

In our first Summer 2017 edtech episode, we talk about classroom response systems, aka clickers. We're joined by three guests who have each...

A.T. Miller has published numerous articles on inclusive and multicultural teaching, and as the Associate Vice Provost for Academic Diversit...

Peter Rich, from Cornell's Policy Analysis and Management Department, just finished his first year of college teaching. In this episode we f...

In this episode we are joined by Professor Drew Margolin from the Cornell Communication Department. Drew is an expert on the role of technol...

In this episode we go conceptual and talk about a new way Edward has devised to categorize courses into three distinct types. The first, Int...

Walker White has one of the coolest jobs in higher ed. He directs Cornell’s Game Design Initiative, and teaches beginning and advanced game...

Stephanie Bower and John Murray teach writing at the University of Southern California, and have been co-teaching Writing in the Community f...

Peter LePage from the Cornell Physics Department joins us on our extra special 50th episode to talk about active learning pedagogy. He share...

We break new ground in this episode as we talk to Dr Anael Alston, the superintendent of schools in Hamilton, NY. He has a master’s and doct...

In this episode we are joined by Steve Pond from the Cornell music department. Steve is an ethnomusicologist and among other things he studi...

Our guest in this episode is organizational psychologist David Berg. He has taught in the Yale School of Management and is currently a Clini...

Jon McKenzie is a visiting professor in Cornell University’s English Department and a Dean’s Fellow for Media and Design. He is a teacher, a...

In this episode Professor Steven Strogatz joins us from the Cornell Math Department. He is a world-renowned mathematician, known primarily f...

In Spring of 2015, Sam Doernberg and Joe DiPietro taught Introduction to Neuroscience to 10 students in the Auburn Correctional Facility in...

Our guest in this episode is Professor David Easley from the Cornell Economics and Information Science Departments. David is a world-renowne...

Bill Goffe teaches economics at Penn State where he is both a consumer and a producer of evidence-based teaching. He is also an Associate Ed...

Edward and Doug discuss several challenges they've faced in teaching new classes this semester. Edward needs help motivating online students...

Kim Kenyon is an Associate Director of Cornell University's Center for Teaching Excellence. In this episode she shares with us the many ways...

In this episode we are joined by Associate Professor Jeff Niederdeppe from the Cornell Department of Communication. His research focuses on...

Sybil Alexandrov is one of the most well-regarded language instructors at Yale. In this episode we talk about her experience teaching herita...

In this episode we talk to Associate Professor Andri Smith about how she brings organic chemistry to life at Quinnipiac University by using...

Andrew Metrick is one of the best teachers in the Yale School of Management. In this episode he walks us through exactly how he co-taught a...

In the second of a special two-part episode, we continue to reflect on what we've learned from the podcast about nine key questions all facu...

In the first of a special two-part episode, we reflect on what we've learned from the podcast about nine key questions all faculty face. In...

Our guest is Julia Stephens from the Yale History Department and South Asian Studies Program. Julia both teaches and writes about South Asia...

Bonni Stachowiak teaches courses in business, marketing, leadership, and human resources at Vanguard University of Southern California where...