Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

In this episode we consider the ground rules for dealing with AI in our classrooms.  What constitutes a responsible, creative response to the challenge of AI for teachers, students, and parents?  We …

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 …

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 mist…

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 experie…

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 Engli…

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: Assessing Liberal Arts …

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 …

This episode is a continuation of Episode Eleven, Part Two of my interview with three recent college graduates reflecting on their college educations.

Edumeasure: Assessing 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 …

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…

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 te…

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 refle…

In this episode, I discuss with Dr. Dane Wendell how transformational teaching and learning develop in his political science classrooms.

Edumeasure: Assessing Liberal Arts Education

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 intere…

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…

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 st…

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 ex…

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 e…

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…