RPP #152: The Future of Education: A Scenario

• Rod illustrates a scenario he wrote as part of a strategic planning process on the future of education at the University of the Sciences.
• The scenario illustrates one future of education. As we all know, technology is increasing at an exponential rate. Self driving cars, facial recognition, virtual-reality, augmented reality and 3D printing are extant today, but will be integrated into everyday life within 5 to 10 years, whether we like it or not. The interesting thing about the scenario is that each one of the technological advances illustrated here can be demonstrated in isolation today. Who knows where we will actually be in 5 to 10 years!
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• Links
• Read on Medium
• Apple Watch
• Apple AirPods
• Ring Doorbell
• Amazon Drone 
• GM - Lyft
• Google Luxotica
• Google Translate
• Coursera Credit Badges
• Ultrahaptics
• Toshiba Customer Service Robot
• The Great A.I. Awakening (Google Machine Learning)
  
• Podsafe Music Selection
• Synth Pop Echos by Rod Murray using Jukedeck - create your own at https://jukedeck.com.

Duration: 09:48 audio & 10:42 video

RPP #149: Teaching in a Digital Age - Interview with Tony Bates

• Interview with Dr. Tony Bates, CEO of Tony Bates Associates Ltd and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University. Tony was the former Director of Distance Education and Technology at the University of British Columbia. We discuss the underlying principles that guide effective teaching in an age of technology: 
  
• New skills needed in our digital age
• Explicit skills, knowledge management, critical thinking, independent learning
• Preparing faculty for teaching
• Move toward team teaching
• Role of publishers
• Collaborative learning
• Communities of practice
• Agile design applied to teaching/learning
• Future of MOOCs after the hype
• Most important trends for education 5-10 years out
  
• Links
• Teaching in a Digital Age by A.W. (Tony) Bates
  
• Podsafe music selection
• The Christmas Season by Devo Spice, a comedy rapper from New Jersey who is one of the most popular artists on the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento Show.

Duration: 38:33

RPP #83: E-Readers: Are We There Yet? Interview with Scott Beadenkopf (Part 2)

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• The Complete Guide to Google Wave - Google Wave is a new web-based collaboration tool that's notoriously difficult to understand. This guide will help...
• Purdue U Brings Social Networking to the Classroom - Some professors--especially those who teach in large lecture halls--have come to embrace social networking as an instructional aid....
• Diigo - Like Delicious and Digg but better, with web highlighting, sticky notes, and annotation.

• Interview (Part 2) on E-Readers with Scott Beadenkopf, Director of Academic Technology at Neumann University: 
• Amazon Kindle
  
• Sony E-Reader
• Plastic Logic
  
• E-Ink - originator of electronic ink technology used in most e-book readers
  
• Barnes & Noble Nook

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Music Alley
• "Winter Moon" by Rhonda Lorence - from the new age viola album "Winter Moon" which was nominated for four Lifestyle Music Awards including Album of the Year and Best New Artist.

Duration: 26 min

RPP #82EP: E-Textbooks: Are We There Yet? Interview with Scott Beadenkopf

Bonus Enhanced Podcast formatted for viewing in iTunes or iPods.
See RPP #82 post below for details.

RPP #82: E-Textbooks: Are We There Yet? Interview with Scott Beadenkopf

Note: This is a standard audio-only mp3 podcast.
See RPP #82EP above for Enhanced Podcast.

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• Internet Archive: A Future for Books - BookServer is an open system to find, buy, or borrow books, just like search to find Web sites.
• An E-Textbook Program Aims to Benefit Students and Professors - Professors create digital textbooks bringing prices down from their average cost of $100 to a much more moderate $15.
• Embracing Electronic Textbooks - Electronic textbooks offer convenience for professors, who can easily review a new textbook online, then make a quick decision to include it in a course.
  

• Interview on E-Textbooks with Scott Beadenkopf, Director of Academic Technology at Neumann University
  
• CourseSmart - benefit from instant access to the largest single source of electronic textbooks available anywhere
• Connexions - a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses and books
• Flat World Knowledge - books by leading experts, rigorously reviewed and developed to the highest standards are free to read online
  

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
• "Stress" (song and flash animation) by highly caffeinated Jim Infantino of the band, Jim's Big Ego. Buy at Amazon

Duration: 23:25