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The Best of StudioTulsa in 2011: Eric Mazur and His Idea of "Peer Instruction"

By Rich Fisher

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Tulsa, OK – Today on The Best of ST, we revisit an interesting interview that originally aired in January of 2011. Our guest is Eric Mazur, who is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. In addition to being one of the world's leading physicists, Mazur is also known for creating and popularizing a teaching strategy known as "peer instruction." Mazur even published a book in the late 1990s called "Peer Instruction: A User's Manual" --- and he was talking about this strategy with various faculty members on the TU campus when we interviewed him.