RPP #193: Danny King of Accredible

Interview with Danny King, CEO, and co-founder of Accredible. Accredible is a comprehensive digital badge and certificate platform. "Accredible is one of the only platforms available that is a full-service digital credentialing solution. Certificates, diplomas, badges, blockchain credentials, and wallet cards - all in one place." We discuss:

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  Danny King, CEO

  Danny's background
• History of Accredible
• Digital credentials, certificates, badges
• Audience 
• History of credentials
• Credentials on the blockchain 
• Integration with LMS and publishing tools
• Revoking and editing blockchain credentials 
• Vaccine credentials and Covid Passports
• Evidence portfolios attached to credentials
• Credentials sharing on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter 
• Certificate as referral/marketing machine  

• Podsafe Music Selection
• Vivaldi: Concerto No. 1 in D Major (Spring, 1st Movement) from The Four Seasons by the American Baroque Orchestra

Duration: 37:33

RPP #192: Liz Simon of General Assembly

Interview with Liz Simon, Chief Operating Officer of General Assembly. General Assembly is a pioneer in education and career transformation, specializing in today’s most in-demand skills such as web development, data, design, business, and more. They began as a co-working space in 2011 and have grown into a global learning experience with campuses in 20 cities and over 35,000 graduates worldwide. We discuss:

• Liz's background as a lawyer

  

  Liz Simon, COO

  
  
• Obama Administration and the US Digital Service
• Audience: students wanting to learn a new skill or companies needing to retrain staff or create a pipeline of new talent
• Impact of the pandemic on teaching methodologies
• Course and program time commitment
• Three-month intensive learning, 9-5, 5 days/week
• Differentiation with MOOCs
• 90% get a job in their field within 3 months
• Partnerships and articulation agreements

• Links to companies mentioned
• https://generalassemb.ly/
• https://www.accredible.com/
• https://www.class.com/
  
  
• Podsafe music selection
• Utopian Prince - Create your own AI Music at Jukedeck 

Duration: 31:05

RPP #191: Marcus Popetz on Harmonize by 42 Lines

Interview with Marcus Popetz, CEO and co-founder of 42 Lines. Harmonize is a discussion tool that allows students to communicate, interact, and engage more easily with one another. It supports richer discussion and collaboration. Faculty and students upload multiple files directly within posts and easily record audio and video comments. We discuss:

• Why 42 lines?

  

  Marcus Popetz, CEO

  
  
• What's wrong with discussion boards
• Discussion board, group chat, instant messaging,
• Requires LMS LTI integration
• Analytics to lower instructor workload
• Creating a hybrid cadence between synchronous and asynchronous
• Integration with Zoom and other video conferencing systems
• Accessibility accommodation including auto-captioning
• Compatible with smartphones  
• Visual layout with 'cards' instead of a long list of text
• Faculty can mark up videos! 
• Peer to peer interaction is coming
• Future direction to use data science to build "formative drop-out detector" to improve student retention

• Podsafe music selection
• Kiss This! (Hey IRS)" by Robert Lund of the Funny Music Project, a parody of Faith Hill's "This Kiss"

Duration: 37:59

COVID-CONVERTED EDITION #5: Class Technologies - Interview with Michael Chasen

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 Michael Chasen, co-founder, and CEO of Class Technologies Inc. Class adds teaching and learning tools to Zoom making virtual classrooms feel like real classrooms. We discuss:

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  Michael Chasen's background
  
• Class for Zoom features
• Attendance
• Tests, surveys, proctored exams
• One-on-one student conversations
• Multiple gallery seating charts: view by name, the order of hand raising, participation view
• Measuring engagement using extensive analytics
• Combined in-person and remote students
• Monitor multiple Zoom rooms simultaneously
• LTI integration with the LMS
  
  

• Podsafe music selection
• "Run" from the new age piano album "Lines Build Walls" by Ehren Starks.

Duration: 35:33