Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education
Edumeasure is a new podcast for teachers, students, parents, and others concerned with transforming teaching and learning -- a podcast for exploring creative, unconventional responses to current issues in education. Hosted by Dr. Bernd Estabrook, a professor at a small liberal arts institution.
Episodes
18 episodes
Season 2 Episode 5: AI in the Classroom -- Use It Before It Uses You?
What should teachers and students do about our society's sudden obsession with Artificial Intelligence? In this episode, we revisit our previous season's podcast on the topic, reflecting on the role that recent generative AI techn...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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28:26
Season Two Episode 4: Mistakes and Values, Part II
In this episode, I follow up on my thoughts from the previous episode, Mistakes and Values. I explore how to implement creative learning in the transformative classroom with the explicit use of mistakes analysis, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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34:17
Season Two Episode 3: Mistakes and Values, Part I
In this episode we examine the obstacles to creative engagement with the learning potential of mistakes in the classroom, focusing on the challenges for teachers as professionals. We use the experiences of the host to illustrate some of t...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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21:11
Edumeasure II: Episode 2--Teaching the Magic of Language
We start off our new season with an interview -- a conversation with an emeritus professor of literature, Dr. Robert Seufert, who reflects on his decades of experience in the classroom teaching English. His experiments in the creation of ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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34:33
Introducing Season 2 of Edumeasure
As we begin the second season of Edumeasure, we thought we would give our listeners some idea of what we learned from the first season, and where we plan to go now.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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6:29
Edumeasure Episode #13: A Presidential Vision
What should an extraordinary education look like from the perspective of a college president? Dr Jeff Abernathy, President of Alma College, offers his vision of what a liberal arts education can and should do to to transform student learning, r...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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26:59
Episode Twelve: Voices of the Educated, Part Two
This episode is a continuation of Episode Eleven, Part Two of my interview with three recent college graduates reflecting on their college educations.
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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31:43
Episode Eleven: Voices of the Educated, Part One.
In this episode's interview, we listen to three recent college graduates reflect on their educations -- about what was meaningful about the college experience itself, and what those experiences mean to them today. These students pr...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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20:09
Edumeasure Episode Ten: Interview with Dr. Larry Zettler -- The Biology of Transformation.
In today's episode we interview Dr. Larry Zettler, a professor of Biology at Illinois College. We discuss how the transformational classroom explores the value of unmediated experiences in support of intensive learning and how this kin...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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18:50
Edumeasure Episode Nine: Interview with Jim Chaffee -- Technology, Teaching, and Learning
In this episode I interview Mr. Jim Chaffee, the Executive Director of Learning Innovation and Technology at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. His credentials in education technology make him an ideal professional ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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24:45
Edumeasure Episode Eight: Interview with Dr. Clayton Spencer -- The Chemistry of Teaching and Learning.
Dr. Clayton Spencer looks at how transformational teaching and learning can be promoted in the sciences, offering insights from nearly three decades of teaching chemistry to undergraduates. He reflects on his experiences navigating a crea...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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28:32
Episode Seven: Interview-- Politics, Teaching, and Learning with Dr. Dane Wendell.
In this episode, I discuss with Dr. Dane Wendell how transformational teaching and learning develop in his political science classrooms.
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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26:13
Episode Six: Perspectives -- Listening, or The Strange Case of the Goth Student.
In this episode I reflect upon an important lesson about teaching and learning that was taught to me by a very unusual student. I look closely at the problem of student engagement, which seems to be an ever more stubborn problem ...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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20:33
Episode Five: Interview -- Dr. Cynthia Cochran on Writing
In this episode I'm interviewing a remarkable teacher of writing, Dr. Cynthia Cochran, who shares the insights of four decades as a writing teacher. Her reflections have relevance for anybody interested in how to transform a skill into a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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26:43
Episode Four: Perspectives -- Academic Rigor or Rigor Mortis?
High school and college courses with a great deal of content are facing increasing difficulties in sharing that content in the classroom. The flood of new information available in most fields, our students' inability to retain and integrate dis...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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19:39
Episode Three: Perspectives -- Chat GPT as Threat or Challenge?
The new developments in artificial intelligence (AI) technology have the potential to initiate tremendous changes in our society – not the least in how we educate our children. Many educators have expressed concern about AI programs like CHAT G...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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16:41
Episode Two: Interview with Dr. Edward Lenert on Teaching and Learning.
In this episode Dr. Estabrook interviews a colleague, Dr. Edward Lenert, on his experiences teaching a course on law and media at the University of San Francisco. The discussion revolves around his efforts to develop transformative learning in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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16:02
Episode One: Introduction to the New Edumeasure Podcast.
Edumeasure is a new podcast for teachers, students, parents, and others concerned with transforming teaching and learning; a podcast for exploring creative, unconventional responses to current issues in education. In this episode Dr. Esta...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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