• 1 minute 45 seconds
    Introducing College Matters from The Chronicle

    Everything happening in the world converges in one place: higher education. 

    College Matters from The Chronicle, coming September 10.

    5 September 2024, 3:45 pm
  • 21 minutes 38 seconds
    Episode 17: If You Had $45 Billion, What Would You Do to Improve Education?

    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 increase equality.

    30 November 2016, 6:39 pm
  • 9 minutes 16 seconds
    Episode 16: A Higher-Education Rebel With a Cause
    Sarah Short, who has taught some 44,000 students over a half-century at Syracuse U., wants to see more classroom interaction.
    19 October 2016, 3:47 pm
  • 13 minutes 32 seconds
    Episode 15: Online Education Is Now a Global Market
    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 willing to think a little differently.
    5 October 2016, 4:10 pm
  • 14 minutes 50 seconds
    Episode 14: How Colleges Should Adapt for a Networked Age
    Author Joshua Cooper Ramo points to a shift in attitudes toward college -- and authority figures in general.
    21 September 2016, 3:31 pm
  • 13 minutes 27 seconds
    Episode 13: A Comedian and an Academic Walk Into a Podcast …
    Shane Mauss, a stand-up comic who likes picking professors’ brains, has become an unlikely but engaging science educator.
    7 September 2016, 4:13 pm
  • 26 minutes 19 seconds
    Episode 12: You Don’t Know Your Students. This Professor Hopes to Change That.
    Michael Wesch, an associate professor of anthropology at Kansas State, joins his students for an unusual tour of their lives beyond the classroom.
    24 August 2016, 3:09 pm
  • 14 minutes 19 seconds
    Episode 11: Are MOOCs Forever?
    Coursera’s Daphne Koller discusses plans for the future of a format that some thought would never last this long.
    14 July 2016, 4:35 pm
  • 14 minutes 37 seconds
    Episode 10: Remember Second Life? Its Fans Hope to Bring VR Back to the Classroom
    Evolving virtual-reality technology holds great promise for higher education, argues A.J. Kelton, director of emerging and instructional technology at Montclair State University.
    1 June 2016, 9:02 pm
  • 12 minutes 4 seconds
    Episode 9: Why Georgetown's Randy Bass Wants to 'Rebundle' College
    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.
    25 May 2016, 5:00 pm
  • 13 minutes 40 seconds
    Episode 8: Why Audrey Watters Thinks Tech Is a Trojan Horse Set to ‘Dismantle’ the Academy
    A prominent critic of education technology has a new podcast, where she deconstructs what she calls the “Silicon Valley narrative.”
    18 May 2016, 4:20 pm
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