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 #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 #106: ApprenNet: Interview with Karl Okamoto & Emily Foote on LawMeet MOOC

• Interview with Karl Okamoto and Emily Foote, co-founders of ApprenNet LLC.
  
  Online LawMeets® leverage the ApprenNet platform to bring a community of lawyers together in order to foster knowledge sharing without the high costs that traditional apprenticeships entail. Online LawMeets offer the ability to scale significant predictors of skills acquisition, including: observation, social capital and mentorship.
• They answer the questions:
• What is a traditional law ‘Meet’
• What is a MOOC?
• How do you use a MOOC to simulate an apprenticeship?
• How does LawMeets work?
• Can anyone use ApprenNet?
  
• Podsafe Music Selection from the Music Alley
• Air on G String by J.S. Bach performed by UK’s Brunswick Duo

Duration: 22:39

RPP #85: Apple iPad and Driving Online Learning Enrollment

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• Facebook Apps for eLearning - Here is a list of 20 facebook apps for educational use 
• 'Horizon Report' Highlights 6 Technologies to Watch in Education - The open-content movement now joins mobile computing as the two trends most likely to enter mainstream learning in the next year, says the report (40 page PDF), from the New Media Consortium and Educause
  
  

• Repositioning Higher Education: Factors Driving Online and Blended Program Enrollment - by Kristen Betts, Kenneth Hartman, and Carl Oxholm III, Drexel University
• Because of the recent economic downturn, higher education must re-examine and reposition itself to meet new and emerging challenge
• Learning on Demand (29 page PDF) - This Sloan Survey of Online Learning reveals that online enrollment rose by nearly 17 percent from a year earlier
  
  
• Apple iPad - Apple's new tablet computer with an unfortunate name
• ScrollMotion to Develop iPad E-Books for Major Publishers - ScrollMotion will make textbooks compatible with the new Apple iPad for four major publishers
• Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education - Tablet-style computers bring classroom collaboration and push the adoption of electronic textbooks
• Create Your Own iPhone or Android App in Minutes With iSites - iSites is a new service that take an RSS feed and quickly transform it into an iPhone, iPad or Android app
  

• Podsafe Music Selection from IODA Promonet
•  "As The Wind Blows" by Kitaro
  

Duration:  26:35

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

RPP #81: Interview: Dr. Alec Couros on Social Networks in Teaching and Learning

• Picks from Rod's Podcaster Guide and E-Learning News
• Campus Technology 2009 Presentations
  
• 7 Textbook Publishers Move to Electronic Format
  

• Interview with Dr. Alec Couros, professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
• Open Thinking - his professional blog
• Social Media and Open/Networked Learning - his open course
  
• Harnessing the Power of Social Networks in Teaching & Learning - his recent keynote at the University of Delaware
  

• Podsafe Music Selection from Music Alley
• "New Soul" by Yael Naim, the acclaimed singer/songwriter from Israel, from her album Yael Naim. 'New Soul' gained fame as the music played during Apple's Macbook Air ad campaign.

Duration: 29:13