A collection of audio essays on teaching and learning in postsecondary education read by the author, Dr PK Rangachari, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University.
A conversation with Dominic Gangemi on making sense of the world. We start with a quote from Psalm 104 and discuss how science tries to understand the world we live in.
An audio essay dealing with another fashionable academic term "evidence-based" using Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to consider the contrasts between assumptions and facts.
An audio essay dealing with the fashionable academic word "impact". A wry look at publications and citations, and a proposal to create a PIF (a personalized impact factor).
An audio essay dealing with time in a student's life.
An audio essay dealing with the fashionable buzzwords prevalent in academia.
An audio essay looking critically at the ways courses/programs select their students, from recruitment to admissions.
An audio essay asking the question: "Is group based learning worth the hassle?"
An audio essay on the endless pursuit of a number—marks, marks and marks.
An audio essay dealing with what students suffer through—tests, tests and tests.
An audio essay on the complexities of what learning really is.
An audio essay on the teachers who have been instrumental in helping PK Rangachari along his erratic ways.
An audio essay about PK Rangachari's early days growing up in India and drifting unintentionally into medical school at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
An audio essay introducing this collection of audio essays on teaching and learning by PK Rangachari.
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