In this episode, we talk with Gilbert Gonzales, assistant professor of health policy at Vanderbilt University. He discusses his interest in designing assignments for students that give them opportunities to make a different in the world outside their classroom. One of those assignments was “Health Policy Radio,” a podcast that he and his health policy students created. In the interview, he describes the assignment and the ways it enhanced his students’ learning.

Links

• Health Policy Radio with Gilbert Gonzales, https://soundcloud.com/user-175461561

• Gilbert Gonzales’ faculty page, https://www.vumc.org/health-policy/person/gilbert-gonzales-phd

• @gilbgonzales on Twitter, https://twitter.com/GilbGonzales

• Vanderbilt News story on Gilbert’s University Course, https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/03/06/university-course-students-meet-with-legislators-during-visit-to-general-assembly/

• Course Design Institute at the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/cdi/