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Rodney B. Murray, Ph.D.
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RPP #188: Per Scholas - Interview with Bridgette Gray
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11/30/20 • -1 min
- Interview with Bridgette Gray, Chief Impact Officer of Per Scholas on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Per Scholas is a national skills training nonprofit that provides tuition-free courses across the country. It has worked closely with students to make sure they have the tools necessary to learn from home during this pandemic. We discuss:
- Training for those traditionally underrepresented
in technology careersBridgette Gray - 15-week "Bootcamp" style training sessions
- Market-driven technical and professional skills training
- Moving from in-class to online training during the pandemic
- Tech equipment challenges
- Lack of universal broadband infrastructure
- Funding sources
- Curriculum development including partnerships with
Amazon and Google - Asynchronous or synchronous training
- Articulation agreements to issue academic credits
- Western Governors University as their national university partner
- Links
- Podsafe music selection
- The Christmas Season by Devo Spice, a comedy rapper from New Jersey who is one of the most popular artists on the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento Show.

RPP #185: RedShelf - Interview with Greg Fenton
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05/15/20 • -1 min
- Interview with Greg Fenton, CEO & Co-Founder of RedShelf. We discuss the RedShelf e-textbook platform offering more than 1 million digital titles including study tools from most publishers at a significant discount. We discuss:
- How Redshelf got started
Greg Fenton, RedShelf CEO - How they compete against Amazon
- Free student access because of COVID-19
- Which publishers they work with (almost all)
- How they deliver publishers' ebook content
- Features make e-textbooks better than print (read aloud, flashcards and study guides)
- Student's desire for hard copy textbooks
- Reading e-textbooks offline
- Faculty authors options to self-publish
- Business model (student and institutional purchase)
- Future directions including "inclusive access"
- Links
- Podsafe music selection
- Gymnopédie No.1 by Erik Satie

COVID-CONVERTED EDITION #1: Introduction to Actionable Tips and Tricks to Teach Online in Real Time
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11/13/21 • -1 min
This special COVID-Converted Edition audio and video podcast series is in response to the impact of COVID-19 on the way we live, learn and work. Teachers all over the world have been thrown into teaching their "COVID-Converted" courses online. This series will focus on moving from this emergency remote teaching and learning to more thoughtfully prepared online learning experiences.
This episode is an interview with Gary Dietz and Shannon Forte, partners in a new venture to bring teachers affordable, practical techniques to engage learners and deliver effective online instruction. We discuss their Workshop including:
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- Presenter backgrounds
- Need for workshops to teach instructors
- Intended audiences for these workshops
- Activities used in the workshop and taught
- Sensorial approaches using music, sound, drawing
- Use of video in place of "talking heads"
- Using private chat to manage classroom
- Advantages of online over physical classroom
- Overcoming obstacles for teachers new to online
- Register for the PADLA Online Workshop: Actionable Tips and Tricks to Teach Online in Real Time
- Presenters: Gary Dietz and Shannon Forte
- Twinkle in the Night by Aakash Gandhi

RPP #184: Bongo - Interview with Josh Kamrath
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03/20/20 • -1 min
- Interview with Josh Kamrath, CEO of Bongo. Bongo offers Video Assignments and a Virtual Classroom that power experiential learning, assessment, and feedback. We discuss:
- Josh's background and evolution of Bongo
Josh Kamrath, CEO - How did Bongo get started
- Not just web conferencing
- Putting knowledge into action
- Structured video assignment workflows
- Peer review and assessment
- Auto-analysis using AI and machine learning
- Integration with the LMS
- How they are different from competitors
- Sentiment analysis in the development pipeline
- Podsafe music selection
- Aurora Borealis Expedition by Asher Fulero

RPP #181: Strut Learning - Interview with Lee Johnston
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02/21/20 • -1 min
- Interview with Lee Johnston, CEO of Strut Learning - the "next-generation LMS for innovators." Strut integrates personalized learning, assessments, student success, authoring, automation, workflows, and analytics. Listen as we discuss:
- The history of Strut (formerly Sagence Learning)
Lee Johnston, CEO - Cognify / Compose / Certify and Connect
- Competency-based and non-term direct assessment
- Strut as a replacement or add-on to the LMS
- Strut's market focus
- Gamified personalized learning
- Active social learning
- Skills mapping creating active feedback loops
- Next-Gen analytics, active workflows, and automation
- High-fidelity dashboards
- and more
- Podsafe music selection
- Pirouette by Asher Fulero

RPP #183: Academia Next with Bryan Alexander
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03/20/20 • -1 min
- This special edition is a wide-ranging talk with Bryan Alexander, author of Academia Next, about the futures of higher education. Bryan is a futurist, researcher, speaker, and educator. His focus is on the future of higher education, especially under the impact of technology. We discuss:
Dr. Bryan Alexander - Teaching at Georgetown U
- His new book, Academia Next
- EDU scenarios in 2035 and longer
- Technologies with largest impact
- Next-gen learning environment
- Mixed/extended reality
- Gamification
- Technopanic
- Open education
- Influence of science fiction
- Quantum computing
- Geriatrics
- Social trends
- Policies and politics
- Cyberwarfare
- Future jobs
- Podsafe music selection
- Don't Doubt ur Vibe by Elon "EDM" Musk

RPP #182: Yellowdig - Interview with Shaunak Roy
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02/21/20 • -1 min
- Interview with Shaunak Roy, CEO, and Founder of Yellowdig. More than a discussion board, Yellowdig meets students where they are, making engagement effortless and natural throughout the entire student lifecycle. We discuss:
Shaunak Roy, CEO - Mr. Roy's background and company story
- The reinvention of the discussion board
- OER-based Peer-driven discussions
- Gamified discussions
- Immediate automated engagement scoring
- LMS agnostic LTI integration
- 300,000 Yellowdig daily users
- Why 'Yellowdig' name
- Podsafe music selection
- Ipanema Daydream by Bird Creek

RPP #180: Learning Technology Entrepreneurs
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02/21/20 • 0 min
- This special podcast is a recording of a panel discussion, Learning Technology Entrepreneurs: Case Studies from Concept to Market. This was recorded at a unique joint meeting of the PA/DE/NJ Distance Learning Association and the Venture Café located in the University City Science Center in Philadelphia, PA. The meeting featured a moderated panel discussion of Learning Technology Entrepreneurs sharing their personal journeys from initial concept to bringing their product/service to the learning marketplace.
- Moderator: Louis Stricoff, Executive Director of PADLA
- Panelists:
- Michael Eiseman, Founder of Learn by Hand, LLC
- Ethan Keiser, Founder of Study Tree
- Shaunak Roy, Founder & CEO, Yellow Dig
- Mustafa Sualp, Founder & CEO, AEFIS
- Links
- Podsafe music selection
- "Fly Fly Fly" by singer/songwriter Adrina Thorpe - Influenced by Sarah Mclachlan, Tori Amos, and Coldplay

RPP #176: The Future of Learning Platforms by Phil Hill
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02/22/20 • 0 min
- This is a special audio and video podcast of Phil Hill's Keynote, entitled The Future of Learning Platforms. Phil Hill is Publisher of the PhilOnEdTech Blog and Partner at MindWires, LLC. As a market analyst, Phil has analyzed the growth of technology-enabled change for educational institutions. Phil gave this Keynote at the USciences eLearning 3.0 Conference on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Phil discusses:
- LMS market share
Phil Hill's Keynote at USciences - LMS as a walled garden
- The chasm between visionaries and pragmatists
- Transformation of MOOCs
- New platform designs
- Moving beyond the digitization of traditional classrooms
- Personalized learning
- Machine learning and student data
- Links
- Podsafe Music Selection
- There's nothing impossible by Deus, a techno-classical musician from the Ivory Coast.

RPP #211: Rob Abel of 1EdTech (aka IMS Global Consortium)
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04/20/23 • -1 min
- Interview with Rob Abel, CEO of 1EdTech Consortium (formerly IMS Global Learning Consortium). 1EdTech is "focused on expanding access to edtech innovation in support of breakthrough and evolving educational models in K-12, Higher Ed, and corporate education." We discuss
- Rob's backgroundRob Abel
- IMS Global transition to 1EdTech
- Growth of membership
- Standards, certifications, code libraries, reference implementations
- Trusted app ecosystem
- Digital credentials
- Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR)
- ~900 members
- Open Badges (formerly from Mozilla)
- Blockchain
- Digital micro-credentials
- Richer transcripts
- Alumni offerings
- 1EdTech Learning Impact Conference in Anaheim, CA - June 5-8
- Podsafe music selection
- Air on G String by J.S. Bach performed by UK’s Brunswick Duo
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How many episodes does Rod's Pulse Podcast have?
Rod's Pulse Podcast currently has 63 episodes available.
What topics does Rod's Pulse Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Learning, Training, Elearning, Medical, Podcasting, Podcasts, Technology and Education.
What is the most popular episode on Rod's Pulse Podcast?
The episode title 'RPP #187: CoursePlan - Interview with Maria Andersen' is the most popular.
How often are episodes of Rod's Pulse Podcast released?
Episodes of Rod's Pulse Podcast are typically released every 27 days, 22 hours.
When was the first episode of Rod's Pulse Podcast?
The first episode of Rod's Pulse Podcast was released on Feb 21, 2020.
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