RPP #207 William Ryan on Flipped Learning

• Interview with William J. Ryan, Founder & CEO of Ryan Consulting, LLC. We discuss his process that allows learners to interact with instructors and peers to practice, apply and synthesize content in the context of their mutual experience. We discuss:
• Dr. Ryan's background

  

  William Ryan, CEO

  
  
• Evolution of web conferencing tools
• Impact of the pandemic on remote teaching and learning
• Importance of core instructional design models 
• Creating time for online social interaction
• Assimilate, practice, and time for reflection
• Integrating Zoom with the LMS
• Simplifying and reducing PPT presentations   
• Don't use polls; just ask questions or use a chat
• Upper limits of online class size, and more

• Podsafe music selection
• "As The Wind Blows" by Kitaro

Duration: 41:02

RPP #205 Kimberley Timpf - AlcoholEDU by Vector Solutions

• Interview with Kimberley Timpf, Senior Director of Impact, Vector Solutions. We discuss their AlcoholEdu program. "AlcoholEdu is an evidence-based training designed to prevent risky drinking and other drug use on campus and help students better reach their academic, professional, and personal goals."
• Kimberley's background

  

  Kimberley Timpf

• History of Vector Solutions and AlcoholEdu
• Drinking and drug use on campus
• Impact of Covid   
• Emotional and physical effects of alcohol, cannabis,
  and e-cigarette use
• Video-based scenarios to coach students on bystander
   intervention techniques
• Support and reinforce the decisions of students who
  choose not to drink in college
• Randomized controlled trials prove the efficacy of
  AlcoholEDU

• Podsafe Music Selection
• "Somebody to Love" by Grace Slick and the Jefferson Airplane at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1967

Duration: 41:05

RPP #204 Phill Miller of Open LMS

• Interview with Phill Miller, Managing Director of Open LMS. Open LMS is "a Moodle™-based LMS platform designed for learners, empowering administrators.' We discuss:
• Phill's background

  

  Phill Miller

• History of Open LMS
• Usage boost during Covid
• Open LMS acquisitions
• Lower cost of ownership
• SaaS approach
• Partnerships: Safe Assign, Ally, Intelliboard, Class Technologies  
• Class acquisition of Bb Collaborate
• New directions in educational technology 
• Moodle is the largest LMS worldwide, one of the "Big 4"
• First face-to-face Users Conference in Phoenix in October 2022 

• Links
• Class Technologies and Open LMS Partnership
• Learning Technologies Group (LTG) Open LMS parent 
• Accredible digital credential and badge platform

• Podsafe music selection
• "Summertime" by Brother Love

Duration: 41:11

RPP #203: Kyle Shea of AllCampus

• Interview with Kyle Shea, Executive Vice President, Partnership Development at All Campus. "AllCampus is a leading online program management services provider that helps universities evolve their academic programs and exceed the ever-evolving expectations of students." We discuss:
• Kyle's background

  

  Kyle Shea, EVP

• History of AllCampus
• Online Program Management options: 
• Program viability, instructional design, curriculum enhancement, marketing, enrollment support, student support and retention
• Undergrad/Grad, Credit/non-credit, degrees/certificates, micro-credentials
• Impact of Covid-19: new clients and expansion of existing programs
• Faculty leaving teaching to learn new skills
• Skills in demand by corporations
• Synchronous/asynchronous trends for online
• Engaging and preparing client faculty 
• Student support coaches
• AllCampus unique services 
  
  
• Podsafe music selection
• "California Dreamin" by The Mamas and The Papas

Duration: 33:53

RPP #202: Michelle Weise of National University

• Interview with Michelle Weise, Vice Chancellor, Strategy and Innovation, National University. NU offers over 75 programs and four-week classes designed to help students reach their goals while balancing busy lives. A pioneer in online education, NU has offered online classes for over 20 years, as well as classes on-site at locations across California and on select military bases nationwide. We discuss:
• Michelle's background

  

  Dr. Michelle Weise

  
  
• History of National University
• Innovator's dilemma  
• Unique 4-week terms
• Partnership with Amazon 
• Military and working adult population
• Right-sized learning experiences
• One-to-one, hybrid, and fully online modalities
• Problem-based learning
• Badges, micro-credentials, and certificates
• Next-generation degree
• Skills Compass
• AI-powered career navigation tools 
• Jobs of tomorrow

• Links
• Long Life Learning: Preparing for Jobs that Don't Even Exist Yet, by Michelle R. Weise
• RPP #135: Disruptive Innovation in Education: Interview with Michelle Weise

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

Duration: 41:54

RPP #201 Don Kassner of MonitorEDU

• Interview with Don Kassner, President and Founder of MonitorEDU. MonitorEDU is a leading provider of high-stakes remote proctoring using live proctors based in North America. We discuss: 
• Don's background and history of MonitorEDU

  

  Don Kassner

• Proctoring changes brought about by Covid
• Efficiency of live proctoring over AI-generated flags
• Chat translation and foreign language proctors
• Ramping up for peak exam times  
• Student identity verification
• Monitoring proctor performance
• Security related to exam software
• Partnerships with testing platforms
• Invigil record and review system
• Proctoring oral exams
• Automated proctoring
  
  
• Links
• RPP #137: ProctorU - Interview with Don Kassner
  
  
• Podsafe Music
• Gymnopédie No.1 by Erik Satie 

Duration: 47:25

RPP #197: Melvin Hines of Upswing

Interview with Melvin Hines, CEO, and Co-Founder of Upswing. "A virtual assistant and student services platform to reach, relate to, and retain your non-traditional students." We discuss:

• Melvin's Background

  

  Melvin Hines, CEO

• History of Upswing
• Great disparities in education 
• Reach, Relate, and Retain
• Reach: answer questions via text chatbot
• Relate: connect to campus or Upswing human resources via web conferencing to provide support and tutoring on more than 400 topics
• Retain: collect analytics to identify students at greatest risk   
• Result: 15% reduction in dropouts each year
• Unique chatbot technology integrates with campus calendars to schedule web conferences with campus and Upswing staff and tutors
• Support for mental health and wellness 
• Support for faculty     
• Changes due to the Pandemic 
  
  

• Podsafe music selection
• Autumn Day by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Duration: 37:48

RPP #196: Dan Avida of Engageli

Interview with Dan Avida, CEO, and Co-Founder of Engageli. "Engageli's digital learning platform
enables higher-ed institutions to provide educators and learners with an active, social, collaborative, inclusive and engaging learning experience."  We discuss: 

Dan Avida, CEO

• Background of founders including Dan's wife Daphne Koller,
  co-founder of Coursera
• Works in class or online (synchronous or asynchronous) and hybrid
• No need for breakout rooms
• Student "table" with the group of peers: "Learn with Friends"
• Students can talk at the same time as the instructor
• In-class students log in so they can take notes and capture instructors screen
• In-class student presses button to ask questions - other mics are muted 
• Polls and quizzes embedded into presentations
• Recordings, notetaking, captioning built into the platform
• Integrated with the LMS using LTI
• Works with Chromebooks - no app to download
• Video is not re-streamed  
• Supports thousands of students in a class using TAs  
• Extensive analytics to detect students at risk 
• AI and ML coming in a future release
  

• Podsafe music selection
• Hachiko by The Kyoto Connection
  
  

Duration: 40:15

RPP #195: Thomas Waite & Steve Mildner of K16 Solutions

Interview with Dr. Thomas Waite, CEO, and Steve Mildner, CRO of K16 Solutions. K16's Scaffold Designer is the industry’s first cloud-hosted, fully integrated LMS migration and course development tool that automates manual processes and improves efficiency. "Migrate Course Content. Archive Student Data. Build Better Courses. LMS Solutions for Educators by Educators." We discuss: 

• Thomas and Steve's backgrounds

  

  Thomas Waite, CEO & Steve Mildner, CRO

• Mission: course design, LMS migration, and archiving
• Partners: Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, and Open LMS
• Reduced cost of migration between LMSs
• Global text replacement during migration (LMS name, phone numbers, etc)
• Migration duration shortened from months to hours
• No need to run both LMSs during the migration
• Historical data from legacy LMS archived on the K16 platform for easy retrieval
• Scaffold solutions for efficient course design  


• Podsafe music selection
• A Passage Of Life by Kitaro

Duration: 50:53

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

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
• Encouraging Evidence on a Sector-Focused Advancement Strategy
• Job Training that Works

• 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: 35:08

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

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:

• His background
• Why he decided to start podcasting now
• What he covers on his blog and podcast
• His thoughts about the Fall Term
• Higher Ed herd mentality
• Emergency remote teaching/learning using Zoom 
• Importance of instructional design
• Student tolerance for learning online
• Links
• COVID-CONVERTED EDITION #2 on YouTube
• RPP #176: The Future of Learning Platforms by Phil Hill
• PhilOnEdTech Podcast
• Cleanfeed - audio recording
• Garageband - sound editing
• Sonics.ai - transcription service
• Podsafe music selection
• Loving Hank by Debbie Poryes Trio - Jazz Pianist, Composer, Teacher & Vocalist

Duration: 40:22

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:

• Register for the PADLA Online Workshop: Actionable Tips and Tricks to Teach Online in Real Time
• Presenters: Gary Dietz and Shannon Forte

Podsafe Music Selection:

• Twinkle in the Night by Aakash Gandhi

Duration: 38:20

RPP #176: The Future of Learning Platforms by Phil Hill

• This is a special audio and video podcast of Phil Hill's Keynote, entitled The Future of Learning Platforms. Phil Hill is Publisher of the PhilOnEdTech Blog and Partner at MindWires, LLC. As a market analyst, Phil has analyzed the growth of technology-enabled change for educational institutions. Phil gave this Keynote at the USciences eLearning 3.0 Conference on Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Phil discusses:
• LMS market share

  

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• LMS as a walled garden 
• The chasm between visionaries and pragmatists
• Transformation of MOOCs
• New platform designs
• Moving beyond the digitization of traditional classrooms
• Personalized learning
• Machine learning and student data
• Links
• PhilOnEdTech Blog
• MindWires, LLC
• Presentation Slides
• Podsafe Music Selection
• There's nothing impossible by Deus, a techno-classical musician from the Ivory Coast.

Duration: 50:52

RPP #175: ALEKS Insights - Interview with Lori Anderson

• Interview with Lori Anderson, VP of Technical Product Management at McGraw Hill. We discuss ALEKS (Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces) a web-based, AI assessment, and learning system focused on math and chemistry. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics she is most ready to learn.
• We discuss:
• How ALEKS got started

  

  Lori Anderson

• How its AI adaptive learning works
• The audience for ALEKS
• Teaching formats covered
• Integration with other software
• Customization
• ALEKS pricing model
• Links
• McGraw-Hill's ALEKS Adaptive Learning Technology
• Using the web-based interactive software ALEKS to enhance college algebra
• ALEKS: A Web-based intelligent tutoring systemPodsafe music selection
• Podsafe Music Selection
• Vivaldi: Concerto No. 1 in D Major (Spring, 1st Movement) from The Four Seasons by the American Baroque Orchestra

Duration: 30:17

RPP #164: Future of Education Discussion with Bryan Alexander

• This special audio (and video) podcast is a broadcast of a Panel Discussion at the USciences eLearning 3.0 Conference held on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Rod kicked off the Panel discussion by showing a brief video on one possible future education scenario.
• Moderator: Dr. Bryan Alexander
• Panelists:
• Dr. Bobbe Baggio, Associate Provost, Cedar Crest College
• Dr. Ken Hartman, CEO Degree Quest & Former President, Drexel University Online
• Dr. Paul Katz, President, University of the Sciences
• Dr. Rodney Murray, Executive Director of Academic Technology, University of the Sciences
• We discuss the questions (with direct links to sections):
• How will students differ in 2030?
• How will faculty differ in 2030?
• Where do you see educational entrepreneurship having the greatest impact?
• Which educational trends keep you up at night?
• Impact of student and national debt
• and much more  
• Links
• Rod's Pulse Podcast Youtube Playlist
• Podsafe music selection 
• Utopian Prince by Rod Murray - AI Music from Jukedeck - create your own at https://jukedeck.com

Duration: 62:27

RPP #158: StudyTree - Interview with Ethan Keiser

• Interview with Ethan Keiser, CEO of StudyTree
• We discuss how StudyTree integrates academic support services with artificial intelligence to provide students with a mobile automated academic assistant. StudyTree analyzes students’ grades and behavioral patterns to construct customized recommendations to improve their academic performance. 

  

  Ethan Keiser, CEO
• We answer the questions:
• How does the StudyTree app work?
• How is AI used in the app?
• How does it work with STEM and Humanities?
• How do you form cooperative study groups?
• How does it compare to live coaching?
• How does it integrate with the LMS?
• Who is using it now?
• What is the ROI for the student/institution

• Podsafe Music Selection
• Autumn Day by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license

Duration: 34:23

RPP #155: Connected Casebook - Interview with Vikram Savkar

• Interview with Vikram Savkar, Vice President & General Manager, Legal Education, Wolters Kluwer. Connected Casebook is an integrated digital and print learning solution designed to facilitate deeper student mastery of legal thinking and stronger learning outcomes. We discuss:
• Electronic textbooks and how they fit into mobile education

  

  Vikram Savkar, VP

  Legal Education, Wolters Kluwer

• Improvements in electronic publishing
• How authors publish books online with WK
• How content is adapted for Millennials
• Adaptive and competency based learning
• The Casebook platform
• Future of audio textbooks
• Purchase options for students
• Podsafe music selection
• Maybe I'm Amazed by Blake Morgan. Licensed cover of the Paul McCartney classic.

Duration: 38:14

RPP #153: eLearning after 20 Years - Interview with Ken Hartman

• Interview with Dr. Ken Hartman, CEO of Degree Quest and the past president of Drexel University Online. Ken has a long distinguished history in education and especially online learning. This talk highlights changes to teaching and learning 20 years after Ken published his book, The Internet Guide for College Bound Students in 1996. We discuss:
• Rise in college tuition

  

  Dr. Ken Hartman

• Use of student "Big Data"
• Observations from the ASU GSV Summit
• Future of the LMS
• Flat online course enrollment
• Disruptive innovation in education
• Quality outcomes from online education
• Role of AI and VR in e-learning 
• Faculty development
• Importance of Data Analytics

• Links
• The Internet Guide for College Bound Students (1996)
• Prospective Students Seek Information, But Colleges Don't Always Provide
• Above the Noise: The Higher Education Highway 
• Acquisitions, Mergers and Reinvention (Not Closures) Will Characterize Higher Ed’s Future
• Back to School 2015 - Dr. Kenneth Hartman (video)
• Degree Quest
• ASU GSV Summit

• Podsafe music selection 
• New Age Piano: Lines Build Walls by Ehren Starks

Duration: 32:49