051 - An Interview with Stephen Downes about Open Education and More

06/21/18 • 58 min

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.

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050 - An Interview with John Couch: What Helped Apple Thrive and the Implications for Education

John Couch has a long an impressive career that includes being one of early employees at Apple where he served as VP of Software and more recently VP of Education, founder, school leader, and author of the book Rewiring Education. In this interview we touch on pretty much every one of these topics and more, including John sharing the special ingredient that helped Apple flourish and can do the same thing for schools and other organizations.

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052 - An Interview with Robin Goldberg - Chief Experience Officer at Minerva

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.