Mike, Brandon, and Dan welcome Scott Jaschik, Co-Founder and Editor of Insidehighered.com, to the show. The group walks through a wide variety of topics concerning colleges and universities, from discuss dwindling enrollments and population changes in the Northeast to challenges emerging around international students. What are some of the biggest issues emerging on campuses today? Listen in to find…
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It’s that time of year again! Mike, Brandon, and Dan take a look at the newly released Gartner Hype Cycle. Our trio of hosts breaks down how the cycle works, some of their favorite technologies featured this year, and some of the year over year changes. They also discuss what an education and EdTech hype…
Mike sits down with Larry Rudman, VP of Learning Science and Instructional Design at Kaplan, to engage in a free-flowing discussion about the problems inherent in applying learning science findings in real life contexts in the modern world. Larry shares his personal experiences from a long and varied career in the field while summoning up…
Mike, Brandon and Dan dive into a recent article by Eli Sheldon of Edsurge titled “How Data Science Adds Computational Thinking – and Fun – To Gym Class.” The trio walks through the use of statistical analysis and data science to expand gym class beyond the physical and explore the concept of SABRLearning, one of Mike’s predictions…
Mike Palmer sits down with Matt Cooper, CEO of Skillshare, to talk about subscription-based education, curating learning content, the need for creative skills, and how Skillshare stays on top of new education trends. The discussion covers the Netflix model and things to learn from other subscription models, as well as how often their best students…
In Part 2 of our Learning from Netflix series, Brandon, Dan, and Mike take a look at subscription-based educational platforms. Skillshare, for example, just received 28 million dollars in funding and provides an “all you can eat” approach to education with a monthly or yearly subscription fee. What challenges might subscription-based educational platforms face? What benefits…
Sans Forgetica is a new font/typset out of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia that was designed specifically to aid in memory and retention. The font is designed to be slightly challenging to read and that “desirable difficulty” makes it a surprisingly effective memory aid. On this episode, Dan and Mike catch up…
Mike and Brandon sit down to explore mnemonic tools like “Memory Palaces” and “the method of loci” which are learning performance hacks that have been shown to aid in memory. We use the book Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foerr as a backdrop to our discussion of memory, retention, and recall. How can memory techniques…
On this week’s episode, Mike, Brandon, and Dan take on the latest internet sensation, Gritty the new mascot for the Philadelphia Flyers. The Flyers introduced Gritty as their new mascot late in September and since then, he(?)’s been feagured across multiple news channels and media outlets. As Mike might say, Gritty is “Zeitgeist-y!” Our trio…
Mike sits down with Katie Nielson, the Chief Education Officer for Voxy.com. Katie talks about what it’s like to be the other kind of CEO. We talk about Voxy’s approach to teaching English to non-native speakers and the challenges for both individual learners and larger groups of students. We reminisce a bit about the early…