Podcast #77: Active Learning, Motivation, and Peer Assessment with Jose Vazquez

Jose Vasquez has been teaching economics at the University of Illinois for 14 years. He teaches one of the largest introductory microeconomics classes in the world every semester with more than 900 students. He also teaches one of the biggest intro micro MOOC’s in the world: His Coursera course has had more than 100,000 students register in the last five years. He thinks deeply about how best to use his class time and what he wants students to do outside class. Our conversation covers a wide range as Jose explains what still excites him about teaching and how he got to where he is. Among other things, we talk about the joys of active learning, the importance of motivating our students, and the benefits (and costs) of peer assessment.

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Podcast #77: Active Learning, Motivation, and Peer Assessment with Jose Vazquez is an episode from The Teach Better Podcast by Doug McKee.

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This episode was published on Nov 21, 2018.

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