RPP #109: Undercover Student: Interview with Gwen Burbank

• Interview: Gwen Burbank, Curriculum Manager/Instructional Technology Specialist for the MBA program at St. George’s University in Grenada, West Indies. Gwen is also a member of the Pennsylvania Distance Learning Association (PADLA.org)
• Gwen went undercover as a MBA student in St. George's synchronous online program. We discuss:
• key educational management issues
• instructional design factors 
• teaching techniques helpful in keeping students engaged and honest
• "the good, bad and ugly" of synchronous online learning
• Podsafe Music Selection from Jamendo
• "Woods of Chaos" by Rob Costlow - New Age Piano"

Duration: 30:55

RPP #108: Mediasite: Interview with Sean Brown

• Interview: Sean Brown, Vice President of Education at Sonic Foundry. Sean has over 17 years of product management and education business development experience at IBM, Apple and Oracle before coming to Sonic Foundry in 2002. He is a past president and board member of the Hopkins Foundation for Innovation in Education.
• We discuss their Mediasite product including:

• lecture capture in the classroom
• their new product that supports personal recording at the desktop
• faculty and student acceptance
• new uses including flipping the classroom
• support for mobile devices including iPad
• Podsafe Music Selection from Music Alley
• "Winter Moon" by Rhonda Lorence - from the new age viola album "Winter Moon"

Duration: 29:08

RPP #107: Ensemble Video: Interview with Scott Nadzan

• Interview: Scott Nadzan, Director of Marketing & Sales for Ensemble Video. Ensemble Video is like an institutional YouTube with the flexibility and controls required in higher education. 
• We answer the questions:

• What is video content management?
• How is it used?
• What formats are supported?
• Why isn’t Youtube good enough?
• Does it work with my LMS?
• Can you use it for iTunes U videos and GoToMeeting recordings?
• Podsafe Music Selection
• "A Passage of Life" by Kitaro

Duration: 25:46

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