Soumitri Varadarajan
Learner Centered Design Education
The course you design. The course you teach your students. Could be learner centered. Soumitri Varadarajan reflects upon 35 years of teaching Industrial Design. Examining what works. Wondering why he does things the way he does. Imagining that some of this could be useful to someone. Somewhere. Disclaimer: This is not a broadcast attempting to inform you. This is merely a portal into Soumitri's brain. Into his thought experiments. It is him questioning everything. It is him finding no answers. So go away! Do not listen to this! Stop being curious.
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Jun 8, 2026
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Episodes
रेडियो बकरी #7: क्या फ्लिप कर दिया जाए 10.10.2021 1:00:01
10 प्रश्न 10 questions फ्लिप क्या होता है? थॉट एक्सपेरिमेंट क्या होता है? टीचर क्या चीज़ है? क्या स्कूल और पढाई सही है? जैसे के चल रहा है? लीन करिकुलम क्या होता है? गोल क्या है? क्या गलती करना ख़राब होता है? क्यों सोचें? क्या बेहतर है - कंटेंट या मेथड? टीचिंग पोर्टफोलियो क्या होता है? Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/
रेडियो बकरी #6: क्या आप कंप्यूटर सीख सकते हैं बिना टाइपिंग के? 09.10.2021 10:15
Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/
रेडियो बकरी #5: क्या सिलाई से साइंस सीखी जा सकती है? 09.10.2021 11:10
The idea that the student has grown up as a goat herd and has played with goats. That she has an emotional attachment with goats. That she will miss the goats when she is at school. Is a powerful strength that provides a channel into activating the student's agency. Intro voice Zain. Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/
रेडियो बकरी #4: क्या खाना बनाने के माध्यम से गणित सीखी जा सकती है? 09.10.2021 15:02
Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/
रेडियो बकरी #3: क्या आप गानों के माध्यम से हिंदी सीख सकते हैं? 09.10.2021 17:15
If the answer is yes, then if you had to design a program for a singing camp. What would that look like? Maybe a lot of antakshari playing. Then some speculation on meanings. Lots of laughter. Finding out words, their meanings and adding them to ones brain. The language gym! Maybe writing them out in ROMAJI. That is the word for the script when you write Japanese using English alphabets. Isn't wri...
रेडियो बकरी #1: 'मेरे पहले पांच हफ्ते' - क्या यह प्रोजेक्ट हो सकता है? 09.10.2021 27:32
This is #1 in a series of episodes that explore the topic of Learner Centered Education in the context of a specific bridge course - that of educating non literate children in the 8-16 year bracket. This series is in hindi, or more precisely hinglish. Outro: Chaap Tilak, by Abida Parveen Coke Studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SDrjwtfKMk Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.w...
रेडियो बकरी #2: क्या क्रिकेट के माध्यम से अंग्रेजी सीखी जा सकती है? 09.10.2021 14:10
If you play cricket, then you know cricket words. English words like out, catch, bat and ball. How many words of the cricket language, cricket vocabulary, do you have? Can you then learn more cricket words? Do you know other English words? Police, Bus, Bank, Okay? Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/
Worried about Podcast Cover and Content Plan? 05.10.2021 12:54
I asked Canva and Iain, my son, for help to do my Podcast Covers. I activated my play mode to do the covers. Then when my brain fired up I sat down to build a an excel/ Airtable spread sheet of topics for future podcast episodes. Canva: https://www.canva.com/ Airtable: https://au.pcmag.com/old-collaboration/49221/airtable Iain: https://iainsoumitri.com/portraits
How I started with Podcasts 03.10.2021 35:10
This is a Sunday recording. A story of how I got into making podcasts. Well not the whole story. I have omitted a lot of the disasters. The Failures. For while I am forever failing in things I start. Never finishing things I start. That is another way to tell a story. This one is more orientated to you. You who have thought about it. Hmmm, should I do podcasts? Maybe. Maybe another time. The what...
What then is "Heart Work"? 03.10.2021 27:47
(Yesterday) was week 10. That is when I has a class - that I refer to as the 'lets pack up' and move on class. I divide a semester of 12 weeks into 4 quarters of 3 classes. So this is the last quarter. What did I say in class? Well, I wrote up what I said. Some of it. As a journal entry. Also, To class I took a series of phrases that I had been listening to in the podcasts over the wee...
Resume Virtue & Eulogy Virtues 01.10.2021 26:43
Note: This is an alt version of the "heart work" podcast. (Yesterday) was week 10. That is when I has a class - that I refer to as the 'lets pack up' and move on class. I divide a semester of 12 weeks into 4 quarters of 3 classes. So this is the last quarter. What did I say in class? Well, I wrote up what I said. Some of it. As a journal entry. Also, To class I took a series of phrases that...
Welcome 01.10.2021 2:15
I am Soumitri Varadarajan, the host of this podcast show, titled Learner Centered Design Education. This is the audio version. The audio-ification, as it were, of the texts that I write. To keep my thoughts outside my head. My Blog on Learner Centered Design Education: https://rawslearn.wordpress.com/ My Website: http://soumitri.com.au/
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