The MoonshotEdu Show

What if we could help employers find the qualified candidates while helping job seekers advance their careers? In this interview with Drew Petty of Skillful, we learn about one effort to shift our thinking about such matters to a skill-based (and not just a credential-based) mindset and approach.

In this episode, we learn from Rebecca Winthrop, author of Leapfrogging Inequality: Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive. Rebecca is Director at the Center for Universal Education and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute. She offers an important global perspective on education innovation that has implications for education in all parts of the world.

In this episode, Robin Goldberg, Chief Experience Officer at Minerva, talks about the impact and lessons learned since the start of Minerva's inaugural class in 2014. Robin shares insights about incredible student gains in 21st century skills over a student's first eight months at the school, the truly global experience that students get, and the rich and integrated internship experiences that are paired with a classroom experience built upon what they consider the best of learning science. Among other things, Robin offers a few insights from the 2017 MIT Press book, Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education.

In this interview with Stephen Downes, Stephen blends substantive thinking and real-world application of that thinking, giving him a particularly valuable vantage point from which to make sense of the frontiers of education. He the mind behind the OLDaily, a co-creator behind the first connectivist MOOC, and among many other things, a senior researcher at the National Research Council of Canada. In this interview, we explore open education, the current limitations of AI and its potential in the future, education trends to watch, and much more.

In this interview with Nadine Strossen, former president of the ACLU and author of HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, we discuss the importance of free speech and the role that education institutions can play in preserving it.