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EduTrends is part of Tec Sounds Podcasts, the official podcast suite of Tecnológico de Monterrey. Join Tec de Monterrey’s international journey of discovery and creation of the future of higher education. Host Pepe Escamilla and other experts from diverse disciplines will showcase innovative pedagogies, technologies, and other educational developments at the service of enhanced learning outcomes.
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This episode’s guest is Emiliana Vegas, co-director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is an expert on education in developing countries. Emiliana talked with José “Pepe” Escamilla about the challenges and opportunities in Latin American educational systems. They discussed the new role of teachers and strategies to improve educational outcomes such as experiential or active learning. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
José “Pepe” Escamilla visits Dr. Randy Bass at Georgetown University. He is Vice Provost for Education and Professor of English at Georgetown, where he founded the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, and now he directs the Red House. In a meaningful conversation, Dr. Randy Bass explains that there is a need for a new focus on education, and tries to answer what can humans do to get better at being human? A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
José “Pepe” Escamilla visited the Brookings Institute in Washington, DC, to meet with Rebecca Winthrop, who is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at Brookings. Rebecca tried to answer if classrooms are evolving as fast as technological transformations and described how it is possible to “leapfrog” learning outcomes. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
In this episode we talked to Philipp Schmidt, director of Learning Innovation at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the MediaLab Learning Initiative and conducts research on learning communities. A conversation about the future of teaching and learning, the power of open communities and the impact of Peer 2 Peer universities. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
A conversation with Alex Amouyel, the Executive Director of MIT’s SOLVE, an initiative that aims to identify solutions to actionable challenges through open innovation. José “Pepe” Escamilla and Alex Amouyel discuss how SOLVE works, what are the most critical world challenges they are trying to tackle, and how powerful the wisdom of the crowd is.
A conversation between José “Pepe” Escamilla and Jean Hammond, LearnLaunch Co-Founder. LearnLaunch is an educational innovation hub that aims to empower innovators to expand access to high-quality education for all learners. Jean Hammond shared her vision on how education can evolve to meet the needs of students to cope with the challenges of the future. She also talked about entrepreneurship and diversity in EdTech ventures. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
Jose “Pepe” Escamilla talked with Peter Mathieson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh. A conversation about Edinburgh’s 2030 plan, the digital challenges facing universities, and how to encourage faculty to be future-ready. Mathieson also discussed ethics in AI and the importance for universities to become sustainable. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
Jose "Pepe" Escamilla met with Martin Paul, President of Maastricht University, one of the youngest Dutch universities, in a conversation that sought to rethink the European University. Martin Paul also addressed Maastricht's efforts to develop its students' independent learning skills, explained their hybrid degree programs, and described what citizens and universities will be like in the future. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
Listen to an insightful conversation about online education between José "Pepe" Escamilla and Anant Agarwal, edX CEO, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Anant talked about the birth of edX and its extensive MOOC offering. He described how data from the edX platform could help improve online education and how it can promote active learning. Anant also addressed the MOOC's completion rate challenge and how online education might evolve in the coming years. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
José "Pepe" Escamilla met with Singapore's Teachers' Union General Secretary Mike Thiruman. An eye-opening conversation on teacher empowerment, skills, and working conditions. Thiruman also addressed Singapore's education success and what Latin America can learn from it. Finally, Thiruman shared his view on the future of education and lifelong learning.
A conversation about the startup explosion and EdTech ventures in emerging economies between Maia Sharpley, Partner at Learn Capital, an Education-focused venture capital firm, and José “Pepe” Escamilla, inside TecSounds’ booth at the entrepreneurship festival INCmty 2019. Maia Shapley described the new lifelong learning ecosystem and the need for teachers and learners to focus on the development of skills like collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. A Podcast by Tec Sounds
INCmty hosted the EduTrends Podcast, where Norihisa Wada, EduLab Inc. Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, talked with Jose “Pepe” Escamilla about XR technologies in education, the power of gamification, and the importance of the human touch when developing EdTech tools. Norihisa Wada also explained EduLab’s work in assessment initiatives on learning and its efforts to create investment vehicles for EdTech ventures. A podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
Ger Graus, Global Director of Education at KidZania, met with José "Pepe" Escamilla at Tec de Monterrey to talk about the state of children's education, the need for a new educational focus on children's aspirations and the globalization of growing up. Ger Graus also discussed how schools, parents, and the environment shape the way girls and boys make choices throughout their learning journey. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
A talk between Tonika Cheek Clayton, Managing Partner of the Ed Tech team at NewSchools Venture Fund, and José “Pepe” Escamilla about the importance to support edupreneurs, the need for the development of better EdTech tools focused on underserved students learning outcomes and some success stories of the Newschools investing efforts in educational innovation. Tonika Cheek Clayton addressed some of the Newschools research’s key findings on EdTech use in US classrooms, and she described the need for education to be more personalized, engaging and inclusive. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
Eric Mazur, a physicist and educator at Harvard University, visited Jose “Pepe” Escamilla during the educational innovation conference CIIE 2019. Mazur dissected Peer Instruction, explained his “Just in Time” teaching method and made a solid point against assessment in the learning process. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
José “Pepe” Escamilla had an eye-opening conversation with Marc Brackett, director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, who recently published “Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive.” Brackett talked about his RULER approach to social and emotional learning. He also discussed what schools are doing to prevent bullying and what role parents and teachers play in the development of students’ emotional intelligence. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
Jose “Pepe” Escamilla traveled to South America and met with Ricardo Rosas, Director of the Center for Development of Inclusive Technologies at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Ricardo does research in Educational Technology and Special Education. He also develops traditional and device-based cognitive assessment instruments and intervention tools. Ricardo shared with us some examples of inclusive technologies that they are developing at his lab and described the global state of inclusion in universities. A podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
A conversation between Robert Hawkins, Global Lead for Technology and Innovation in Education at the World Bank Group, and Jose “Pepe” Escamilla. Robert is an expert advisor to governments seeking innovative ways to improve education systems. Robert described the five principles that guide the World Bank’s efforts to improve education globally, pointed out the need for universities to bolster lifelong learning and shared some success stories on educational innovation in developing countries. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
Listen to José "Pepe" Escamilla and Winslow Burleson, Assistant Director and Director of Research at the School of Information at the University of Arizona, talk about how analyzing emotions through technology and AI can improve educational outcomes. A Podcast by Tec Sounds Podcasts.
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