Dr Burgess usually teaches Research Methods (psych 12) and Skepticism and Pseudoscience in Psychology (psych 13) once a year.

Other teaching could be upper-level undergraduate cognition seminar, psycholinguistics or a graduate seminar.

Dr Burgess currently serves on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Committee. He has been involved in the use of technology in the classroom and how it can be used to facilitate learning. He has served on the Academic Senate Computing and Information Technology committee (2001-2003) and then chaired that committee (2003-2005). He was the second faculty member to pilot the clicker technology (2004). As part of Plato's Roundtable, he and Professor Erickson were interviewed by Dr. Leo Schouest about the cognitive psychology of using clickers in the classroom and student interactivity and discussed the role of working memory, information encoding and complexity, memory structure and organization, cognitive models in learning and the use of powerpoint presentations.

YouTube site with videos relevant to the classes he  teaches.