Students as Teaching Partners: How Shared Responsibility Makes Learning Stick

In this episode of Social Learning Amplified, host Eric Mazur sits down with Alison Cook-Sather, the Mary Catherine Woodward Professor of Education at Bryn Mawr College and founder of the internationally recognized Students as Learners and Teachers program, to explore the power of pedagogical partnership and whole class co-creation. The two discuss how shared responsibility deepens motivation, agency, belonging, and empathy, especially in the age of AI, when it’s easier than ever for students to outsource their learning.  Ahead of her forthcoming open access book from Elon University, Enacting Whole Class Co-creation: Faculty and Student Experiences of Sharing Responsibility in Teaching and Learning, Alison shares how co-creation can work even within a traditional grading system through tools like course commitment forms and student self-assessment.  Get the book: https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/publications/open-access-book-series/forthcoming-books/