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S7E4 Misinformation, AI, & Science Photography
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
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
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
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
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
Sujood Khalid Eldouma recently relocated to the UK for her master’s studies, having previously lived in Egypt after fleeing her native Sudan to escape the devastating civil war in that country.…
S6E5 Jerry from Uganda: An Open Learner's Story
They say every crisis also presents an opportunity. Open learner Jerry Vance Anguzu seized one such opportunity in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, when his native country of Uganda went into…
S6E4 Lotfullah from Afghanistan: An Open Learner's Story
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
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
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
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
Emmanuel Kasigazi is a data scientist from Kampala, Uganda. Michael Jordan Pilgreen is a financial technology engineer from Memphis, Tennessee. Kasigazi and Pilgreen know firsthand how transformative…
S5E9 Living Poetry with Poet Joshua Bennett
This episode features a wide-ranging conversation about poetry: what it is, where it comes from, and why it matters. Our guest, poet (and poetry professor) Joshua Bennett, talks about the early…
S5E8 Robust Science with Prof. Rebecca Saxe
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
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
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)
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
You thought Chalk Radio was a podcast about inspired teaching at MIT? Yes and no! “We don't do a lot of teaching,” says Dr. Ari Epstein, our guest for this week’s episode. Dr. Epstein is associate…
S5E4 Economics and Real-World Impact with Dr. Sara Ellison and Prof. Esther Duflo
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
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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