Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

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 transformational experiences for students are applicable to a wide variety of teaching environments and situations. I think you'll find his reflec

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.Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education

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, relying on his experience as a Professor, a Dean, a Provost. and a College President over a 40-year career in higher education.Edumeasure: As

This episode is a continuation of Episode Eleven, Part Two of my interview with three recent college graduates reflecting on their college educations.Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education

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 provide us with a fascinating perspective on our students' understanding of the goals and ideals of the liberal arts. This episode is Part One of a two-par

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 kind of educational experience can have a powerful impact on the students' relationships with the world around them.Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts

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 to speak about how education shapes, and is being shaped, by the rise of powerful new technologies in our schools. He offers our listeners some im

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 creative passage between the requirements of content knowledge and the practice of liberal arts values.Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode, I discuss with Dr. Dane Wendell how transformational teaching and learning develop in his political science classrooms.Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education

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 for high schools and colleges across the country.Edumeasure: Asssessing Liberal Arts Education