Vanderbilt Center for Teaching: Episode 1 - An Interview with Michael Bess
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Vanderbilt University. Center for Teaching
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Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "CFT Podcasting - Podcast Episodes - Episode 1 - An Interview with Michael Bess - In this episode, we feature excerpts from an interview with Michael Bess, Chancellor's Professor of History here at Vanderbilt. In this interview, Michael describes his use of Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that 'anyone can edit,' to help undergraduate history majors learn how to think and reason like historians." Bess illustrates the methodology of historians by using Wikipedia's archived debates on controversial topics such as dropping the bomb on Hiroshima.
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Instructional technologies, Wikipedia