Monday, November 30, 2020

RPP #188: Per Scholas - Interview with Bridgette Gray

  • 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 careers
      Bridgette 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
Duration: 35:08
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

COVID-CONVERTED EDITION #4: Interview with Dr. Sian Beilock

This special COVID-Converted Edition audio and video podcast series responds 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.

Interview with Dr. Sian Beilock, President of Barnard College. Learn how one college helps students combat fear and anxiety through mandatory coursework designed to provide context to the big problems we’re facing during this pandemic. We discuss:
  • Dr. Beilock's background
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  • Move to compressed semesters
  • Asynchronous vs. synchronous teaching
  • "Big Problems 2020" and how faculty make meaning out of the current environment
  • "Alumni Circles" helping students
  • Zoom fatigue
  • Student Zoom Preceptors 
  • Women's health in the pandemic 
  • "Feel Well - Do Well" health and fitness program
  • "Student Tutor Corp" to take demand off of faculty and staff
  • How education will change after the pandemic

  • Podsafe music selection
    • Maybe I'm Amazed by Blake Morgan. Licensed cover of the Paul McCartney classic.
Duration: 30:14
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Thursday, August 20, 2020

COVID-CONVERTED EDITION #3: Equity & Inclusion in Online Course Design

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 abstract of a PADLA webinar entitled "Equity & Inclusion in Online Course Design" by Carrie O’Donnell, Founder of O’Donnell Learn, and Brett Christie, Director of Learning Experience Design for O’Donnell Learn. Watch, listen, and learn about:

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    • 8 Elements of Effective Learning
    • Principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
    • Quality vs. Equity vs. Inclusion
    • The Bandwidth Immediacy Matrix
    • Establishing a Sense of Community and Belonging
    • Ensuring Multiple Means of Representation, Engagement, and Expression

  • Links
  • Save your seat for the next FREE PADLA Equity & Inclusion in Online Course Design Webinar on September 10 to participate and hear the full story.
  • Podsafe music selection
Duration: 32:44
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Thursday, July 23, 2020

RPP #187: CoursePlan - Interview with Maria Andersen

  • Interview with Dr. Maria Andersen, CEO of CourseTune, makers of the new CoursePlan product for individual faculty users to design their courses using visual tools. 

  • We discuss:
    • Background of CourseTune and how CoursePlan is different
    • Course design layers: “What are students learning” and “When will they learn it”
    • Aligning learning and assessment activities to the learning objectives
    • Visualizing the entire course at once
    • Support for HyFlex delivery
    • Accounting for student load and time on task
    • LMS integrations and future directions
    • Contingencies for teaching this Fall during the pandemic
Duration: 42:13
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Thursday, June 25, 2020

RPP #186: Proctortrack - Interview with Raj Kumar

Interview with Rajnish Kumar, CEO, and Co-Founder at Verificient Technologies. Their Proctortrack product leverages automation and live proctoring using AI to deliver automatic proctoring solutions. We discuss:
Raj Kumar, CEO of Verificient
Raj Kumar, CEO
  • Evolution of Verificient and Proctortrack
  • Need for identity verification and remote proctoring
  • Veripass for identity verification
  • Use of biometrics
  • How Proctortrack works
  • Support for Chromebook
  • Support for 2nd camera (mobile phone)
  • Use in testing centers
  • Future innovations
  • Podsafe music selection
    • Duration: 30:01
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    Monday, June 01, 2020

    COVID-CONVERTED EDITION #2: Interview with Phil Hill

    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 Phil Hill, Publisher of PhilOnEdTech, and Partner at MindWires Consulting. We discuss podcasting, especially his new PhilOnEdTech Podcast, and the Covid-fueled hybridization of Higher Ed. We cover:
    Duration: 40:22
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    Thursday, May 14, 2020

    RPP #185: RedShelf - Interview with Greg Fenton



    • 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
      Duration: 31:43
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      Saturday, April 11, 2020

      COVID-CONVERTED EDITION #1: Introduction to Actionable Tips and Tricks to Teach Online in Real Time


      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:
      Open Video Podcast on Youtube
      • 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
      Links:
      Podsafe Music Selection:
      Duration: 38:20
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      Friday, March 20, 2020

      RPP #184: Bongo - Interview with Josh Kamrath

      • 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
        Duration: 37:17

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        Wednesday, February 05, 2020

        RPP #183: Academia Next with Bryan Alexander

        • 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
        Duration: 46:16
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