{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"LearningWell Radio","home_page_url":"https://learningwellradio.fireside.fm","feed_url":"https://learningwellradio.fireside.fm/json","description":"LearningWell Radio is part of a LearningWell magazine – a learning community dedicated to examining how higher education experiences can lead to improved wellbeing both on campus and throughout one’s lifetime. 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Lindner helped create and lead UF Quest, a 4-year signature course aimed at providing intimate, interactive learning communities within the large land-grant university in Gainesville. Part of the general education program that begins with a first year Humanities course, UF Quest engages students with questions that Lindner says “are difficult to answer, but impossible to ignore.”  \n\nThis episode is part of LearningWell Radio's series “Invented Here,” which spotlights innovative, transformational learning programs at colleges and universities across the country.","content_html":"\u003cp\u003eLearningWell Radio co-host Dana Humphrey in conversation with Dr. Angela Lindner, professor and former Associate Provost of Undergraduate Affairs at the University of Florida. Lindner helped create and lead UF Quest, a 4-year signature course aimed at providing intimate, interactive learning communities within the large land-grant university in Gainesville. 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