Career-Oriented Course Design with Greg Edwards

11/28/23 • 39 min

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On this episode, I talk with Greg Edwards, head of learning at Rize Education. Rize is a for-profit company that works with a consortium of over 135 colleges and universities to help them quickly launch new, career-oriented majors and other programs. The institutions partner with Rize, which can provide half a dozen core online courses for these majors, sourced from the consortium, that layer on existing courses at the home institution to get these new programs up and running in a semester or two.

As head of learning at Rize, Greg is involved in all aspects of course design and development. In our conversation, he shares how Rize goes about identifying new programs to create, how course design works at a consortium scale, and the roles that faculty play in this new model.
Episode Resources

· Greg Edwards on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorytedwards/

· Rize Education, https://www.rize.education/

· Lower Cost Models for Independent Colleges Consortium, https://www.thelcmc.org/

· LCMC programs, https://www.thelcmc.org/programs

· “The New Learning Economy” white paper by Jeff Selingo, https://info.cengage.com/learning-economy_wp_2738580

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· Greg Edwards on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorytedwards/

· Rize Education, https://www.rize.education/

· Lower Cost Models for Independent Colleges Consortium, https://www.thelcmc.org/

· LCMC programs, https://www.thelcmc.org/programs

· “The New Learning Economy” white paper by Jeff Selingo, https://info.cengage.com/learning-economy_wp_2738580

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In this episode, I talk with Anne Reed, director of micro-credentials at the University of Buffalo. Her office oversees over one hundred different micro-credentials that can be earned by University of Buffalo students. Micro-credentials at Buffalo are learning experiences that are larger than a course but smaller than a minor that students can use to differentiate themselves on the job market by making clear the workforce relevant knowledge and skills they’ve gained.

Anne and I had a fascinating conversation about micro-credentials at the University of Buffalo, how they’re structured and aligned with workforce needs, the roles faculty play in them, and why students pursue them. She also taught me how to create my own micro-credential, an "Outstanding Podcast Guest" badge that I awarded to Anne!
Episode Resources:

· Office of Micro-Credentials at Buffalo, https://www.buffalo.edu/micro-credentials.html

· University of Buffalo’s badges, https://www.credly.com/organizations/university-at-buffalo/badges

· Anne Reed on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-reed/

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· National Association of Colleges and Employers, https://www.naceweb.org/

· O*NET, https://www.onetonline.org/

· “The New Learning Economy” white paper by Jeff Selingo, https://info.cengage.com/learning-economy_wp_2738580

· Texas Credentials for the Future, https://www.utsystem.edu/sites/texas-microcredentials

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Global Online Learning with Safary Wa-Mbaleka and Leni Casimiro

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One of the themes I’ve been exploring here on the podcast is how teaching and learning in higher education has changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Months of emergency remote teaching followed by more planned online and blended teaching has resulted in an acceleration of the role of online teaching in higher education.

Safary Wa-Mbaleka is associate professor of leadership in higher education at Bethel University in Minnesota, and Leni Casimiro is professor and chair of education at the Adventist International Institute for Advanced Studies in the Philippines. They, along with Kelvin Thompson are editors of the new Sage Handbook of Online Higher Education out this month.
On this episode, I talk with Safary and Leni. We had a lively conversation about the changing state of online education around the world and how higher education faculty and staff can respond to those changes.
Episode Resources

· Safary Wa-Mbeleka’s faculty page, https://www.bethel.edu/academics/faculty/safary-wa-mbaleka

· Leni Casimiro’s faculty page, https://www.aiias.edu/education-department/name/leni-casimiro/

· The Sage Handbook of Online Higher Education, https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/the-sage-handbook-of-online-higher-education/book281802

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Intentional Teaching - Career-Oriented Course Design with Greg Edwards

Transcript

Derek Bruff 0:06
Welcome to the Intentional Teaching, a podcast aimed at educators to help them develop foundational teaching skills and explore new ideas in teaching. I’m your host, Derek Bruff. I hope this podcast helps you be more intentional in how you teach and in how you develop as a teacher over time.
In the last episode, I quoted Jeff Selingo from his recent white paper on the “new learning economy.” In that paper, he writes, “What’s clear is that students in the future