Episodes 60
Avg. Duration 20m
Activity Sporadic
Apple Rating 4.9 (42)
Since Feb 2020
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
77%
Hosting
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About This Podcast

Chalk Radio is an MIT OpenCourseWare podcast about inspired teaching at MIT. We take you behind the scenes of some of the most interesting courses on campus to talk with the professors who make those courses possible. Our guests open up to us about the passions that drive their cutting-edge research and innovative teaching, sharing stories that are candid, funny, serious, personal, and full of insights. Listening in on these conversations is like being right here with us in person under the MIT dome, talking with your favorite professors. And because each of our guests shares teaching materials on OCW, it's easy to take a deeper dive into the topics that inspire you. If you're an educator, you can make these teaching materials your own because they're all openly-licensed. Hosted by Dr. Sarah Hansen from MIT Open Learning. Chalk Radio episodes are offered under a CC BY-NC-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/).

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S7E4 Misinformation, AI, & Science Photography

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Science photographer Felice Frankel is acclaimed for the striking beauty of her images, which have been displayed in museums, published in multiple books, and even featured in the background in one…

S7 Special Episode: Collaborating with Community Colleges

Jan 15, 2026 34m Bonus

MIT OpenCourseWare has been one of the pioneers of open education, leading the way by offering free materials from MIT courses as early as 2001, when no other institutions were pursuing comparably…

S7E3 MIT Economist Jon Gruber on AI, Trade-offs & Healthcare

Nov 05, 2025 29m

Prof. Jonathan Gruber, our guest for this episode, likes to tell his students that economics is a fundamentally right-wing science. What he means by that is that classical economics is built on one…

S7E2 MIT Programmer Ana Bell on Growth Mindset, Coding, and Rubber Ducks

May 14, 2025 30m

Learn about Python, growth mindset, and the uses of rubber ducks in this interview with MIT lecturer Ana Bell. Dr. Bell, who has been programming since she was twelve and now teaches popular…

S7E1 MIT Economist Andrew W. Lo on Finance, AI, and Human Behavior

Apr 16, 2025 39m

In this the first of two pilot episodes of Chalk Radio with VIDEO, Professor Andrew Lo, who teaches finance at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, knows that many people find financial matters…

S6E6 Sujood from Sudan: An Open Learner's Story

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S6E5 Jerry from Uganda: An Open Learner's Story

Dec 04, 2024 26m

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S6E4 Lotfullah from Afghanistan: An Open Learner's Story

Nov 13, 2024 25m

Our guest for this episode, Lotfullah Andishmand, grew up in a village in rural Afghanistan where there was no internet access or electric lights. (He describes having had to navigate by moonlight to…

S6E3 Nader from Jordan: An Open Learner's Story

Oct 30, 2024 26m

When Nader AlEtaywi was in high school in Jordan, he had a passion for finance but his prospects seemed limited. Juggling his studies, minimum-wage jobs, and family crises made it hard to envision a…

S6E2 Jae-Min from South Korea: An Open Learner’s Story

Oct 16, 2024 29m

Jae-Min Hong, our guest for this episode, is a hungry learner with wide-ranging curiosity and a distrust of groupthink. A native of South Korea, she has been fluent in English from childhood, which…

S6E1 Maria from Brazil: An Open Learner’s Story

Oct 02, 2024 26m

In this inaugural episode of the Open Learners podcast, hosts Emmanuel Kasigazi and Michael Jordan Pilgreen interview Maria Eduarda Barbosa, a medical student located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Maria…

S5 Introducing the Open Learners Podcast

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S5E9 Living Poetry with Poet Joshua Bennett

Jun 26, 2024 51m

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S5E8 Robust Science with Prof. Rebecca Saxe

Jun 19, 2024 1h 1m

Our guest for this episode, Professor Rebecca Saxe, is MIT’s Associate Dean of Science. Prof. Saxe is also the principal investigator for her own laboratory, the Saxe Lab, where she deploys powerful…

S5E7 Innovation, Past and Future with Open Learning's Dean Christopher Capozzola

Jun 05, 2024 13m

As MIT’s Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning, Christopher Capozzola’s job is to look forward, identifying new opportunities and facing new challenges in online and digital learning. But he’s also…

S5E6 What’s Worth Making? with Prof. Hal Abelson

May 29, 2024 42m

Professor Hal Abelson has been active in computer science for over half a century—the first computer he worked with, in high school, was the kind where programs were encoded in a pattern of holes…

S5 Everything Here Is Sacred (Terrascope Radio Replay)

May 22, 2024 18m Bonus

In a departure from our usual format, in which we interview an exceptional faculty member to learn about their approach to teaching, this time we’re showcasing an exemplary piece of student work: an…

S5E5 The Power of Experience with Dr. Ari Epstein

May 22, 2024 19m

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S5E4 Economics and Real-World Impact with Dr. Sara Ellison and Prof. Esther Duflo

May 15, 2024 36m

In this episode we meet professor and Nobel laureate Esther Duflo and her colleague Dr. Sara Ellison for a discussion about economics: what it is, how it differs from sociology, how it incorporates…

S5E3 The Lumpy Universe with Prof. David Kaiser

May 08, 2024 53m

This conversation with Prof. David Kaiser, who teaches physics and the history of science at MIT, covers a vast timespan, from the beginning of the universe to the present day. Prof. Kaiser explains…

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Chalk Radio has published 60 episodes since February 2020, covering topics in Courses, Education.

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