Oct 7, 2009 -- At the invitation of former Finance Minister of Japan Koji Omi, Eric Mazur attended the sixth annual Forum on Science and Technology in Society in Kyoto Japan. The forum, attended by leaders in politics, business, including 32 ministers and 12 Nobel laureates, dealt with ethical, safety and environmental issues pertaining to advances in science and technology. More

Mazur in Kyoto

Mar 11, 2008 -- Eric Mazur was keynote speaker at the University of Surrey's Learning and Teaching Event 08. The event, attended by several hundred university faculty from a variety of departments, provided a broad showcase for work that promotes engaged student learning. According to Mazur, lectures can only succeed in promoting genuine learning if they contain questions which require students to apply their understanding. More

At Surrey Uni

Jan 16, 2008 -- On tour in Montreal, Canada, Mazur lectured at Concordia University on teaching large classes and on the Peer Instruction method. Mazur's call/response form of teaching allows for a “continuous assessment and feedback. A number of faculty at Concordia are implementing the method in their classes. More

At Concordia

Jul 17, 2007 -- In a conversation with Eric Mazur for the Science section of The New York Times, Claudia Dreifus discusses doing physics, teaching, and serendipitous discoveries. She notes that Mazur is "as experimental in his classroom as he is in his research laboratory." The article became the 11th most emailed article on the New York Times web site on the day of publication. More

Eric Mazur on Physics

See also: The New York Times, July 17, 2007, Science, p.2

May 18, 2007 -- Mazur "conquered the audience" during his hour-long lecture on education at the Fundação Serralves in Porto, writes Andrea Freitas in the Portuguese daily Público. The lecture was the first in a cycle on education in a series entitled Crítica do contemporâneo. In it Mazur used examples from his teaching career to convince the audience that every teacher ought to abandon the podium and take on the role of a coach to help students learn. More

Mazur in Portugal

See also: Público, May 17, 2007, p. 12

Apr 22, 2007 -- In an article on the front page of the Ideas section of the Boston Sunday Globe, Linda Wertheimer provides extensive coverage of Eric Mazur's class at Harvard. The article discusses a recent push to evaluate teaching and Mazur's efforts to have a more scholarly approach to teaching -- that is to say, for instructors to measure the effect of their own teaching and then adjust their approach to improve the result. More

Taking data

See also: The Boston Globe, 22 April 2007, p. E1