About 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.
Students as Teaching Partners: How Shared Responsibility Makes Learning Stick
In this episode of Social Learning Amplified, host Eric Mazur sits down with Alison Cook-Sather, the Mary Catherine Woodward Professor of Education at Bryn Mawr College and founder of the internationally recognized Students as Learners and Teachers program, to explore the power of pedagogical partnership and whole class co-creation. The two discuss how shared responsibility deepens motivation, agency, belonging, and empathy, especially in the age of AI, when it’s easier than ever for students to outsource their learning.
Ahead of her forthcoming open access book from Elon University, Enacting Whole Class Co-creation: Faculty and Student Experiences of Sharing Responsibility in Teaching and Learning, Alison shares how co-creation can work even within a traditional grading system through tools like course commitment forms and student self-assessment.
Get the book: https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/publications/open-access-book-series/forthcoming-books/ (https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/publications/open-access-book-series/forthcoming-books/)
30 Sept 2026
If Nothing's Going Wrong, You're Not Really Teaching
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/
9 Sept 2026
What If Grades Are Lying to Us? Rethinking Learning as Observable Behavior
In this episode of Social Learning Amplified, host Eric Mazur sits down with Dr. Jarek Janio, ESL 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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