Center for Teaching and Learning Stanford University

"Award-winning Stanford professor of history Jim Campbell argues for the value of disciplinary training in the age of interdisciplinary programs. He uses Google Glass as a metaphor for the unique lens such training gives thinkers, the abilities needed to consider questions in the appropriate context.

Campbell is introduced by Professor Emeritus Tom Ehrlich.

Prof. James T. Campbell appeared May 8, 2014 as part of the Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning's longest-running lecture series, Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching, which invites faculty winners of Stanford's major teaching awards to deliver a lecture on a teaching topic of their choice."

Opportunities for students to be creative outside of arts classes are few. In Professor Hester Gelber's class, students engage with religious studies by creating their own short stories. They read science fiction and fantasy novels to explore our modern take on religion.

Stanford undergraduates are wonderfully smart and motivated. They are also often over-committed and time constrained. I’ll share some thoughts gleaned over the years for strategies to help engage such energetic, busy students in different aspects of learning, teaching, and research.

In teaching biology to undergraduates, I want them to discover the thrill of discovery. I'll talk about designing a large introductory research-based laboratory class that challenges students to create and share scientific knowledge.

Can your students learn what they need to know by just reading the book, or is there value added to also seeing the "movie"? Some thoughts on how I try to make it worthwhile for my students to actually attend my classes.

I’ll show how service learning course in health professions develop a student's deep understanding of the principles of effective and ethical public service.