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The Future of Professional Education

The Future of Professional Education

Author: Sean Dagony-Clark | ThriveDX

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Learning. We've all experienced it, but how does it happen? In this podcast, we'll explore the world of adult career-change education, from learning theories to classroom experiences to the kinds of people who make life-changing education possible. Come learn with us!

TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! https://blog.feedspot.com/educational_podcasts/

Your host is Sean Dagony-Clark, an educator, author, and leader with experience in K-12, higher education, and management. You can find him on Twitter and LinkedIn under the username dagonyclark.
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Sean is off to new adventures and has left full-time employment with ThriveDX. This episode is a synopsis of some of the most important takeaways from the whole podcast series: the ThriveDX Educational Principles. Links and further reading: Sean’s new consultancy: EffectivEDU (EffectivEDU.com) Sean’s new podcast: Ways We Learn (anchor.fm/welearn) Episode 3 - The ThriveDX Educational Principles (https://anchor.fm/tfpe/episodes/The-ThriveDX-Educational-Principles-eo60s7/a-a46ui2n) Episode 5 - Techniques that Support Active Learning (https://anchor.fm/tfpe/episodes/Techniques-that-Support-Active-Learning-evq17f/a-a5ct10n) Episode 12 - Building a Comprehensive Assessment Strategy (https://anchor.fm/tfpe/episodes/Building-a-Comprehensive-Assessment-Strategy-e1a6n36/a-a6su4uh) Episode 13 - Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory and Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Learning (https://anchor.fm/tfpe/episodes/Swellers-Cognitive-Load-Theory-and-Mayers-Multimedia-Principles-e1c00jf/a-a74pci7) Episode 23 - Educational Mythbusting with Daisy Christodoulou (https://anchor.fm/tfpe/episodes/Educational-Mythbusting-with-Daisy-Christodoulou-e1iblb2/a-a7tcusr) Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, or LinkedIn. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Wes Della Volla has a long history in media production and a bunch of awards for his work in VR and 360 video. He’s created some groundbreaking VR experiences and is now partnering with Meta’s immersive learning initiative. So when Wes talks about the metaverse and its utility in education, we definitely will learn something! Links and further reading: Earlier TFPE on immersive learning with VR and AR https://anchor.fm/tfpe/episodes/Immersive-Learning-with-Ben-Murphy-es7mj3 Brookings Institute publication “A whole new world: Education meets the metaverse” https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-whole-new-world-education-meets-the-metaverse/ Meridian Treehouse publications https://www.meridiantreehouse.com/journal  https://www.meridiantreehouse.com/metaverse-education-guide VR experiences: Immersive dives:  https://thehydro.us/immerse-vr https://thehydro.us/virtual-dives https://vimeo.com/570715251 Moonwalk https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-and-meta-invite-visitors-walk-moon-exclusive-new-virtual-reality Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/company/meridiantreehouse https://www.instagram.com/meridiantreehouse/ https://twitter.com/meridiantree https://twitter.com/TheHydrous https://twitter.com/DellaVolla Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at seandc@thrivedx.com. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Jenni Kephart is the founder of Unlocking Potential (https://www.unlockingpotentialspecialists.com/), an academic and test-prep support company on math problems, exams, essays, school projects, or other academic challenges. Jenni’s team works to “validate each student’s natural and intuitive way of thinking,” and she says they see the benefits of this extend far beyond the time the students leave her program. Come learn how she supports intuitive learning. Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at seandc@thrivedx.com. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
In this episode we learn from Shaunak Roy, the founder of Yellowdig, which is a startup that focuses on social and active learning and connection, building communities of learners in their existing learning management systems, and incentivizing engagement. Shaunak speaks about the importance of connection and motivation in learning, particularly in online scenarios, and shares how his company is trying to fill this gap.  Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at seandc@thrivedx.com. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Bart Butler creates experiences. Among other places, he’s worked at The Disney Company and European Wax Center, and if you’ve visited either of those you know just how fanatical they are about customer experience. He now heads the Experience Development team at ThriveDX, where he works on improving the experiences of our students, faculty, and staff.  Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at seandc@thrivedx.com. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Kaya Henderson has a long and fascinating career journey in education, including a 6-year stint as the Chancellor of the D.C. Public School system, and has now channeled her expertise into building reconstruction.us and driving its mission of “unapologetically Black education.” Come learn about Kaya’s thoughts on inclusive and representative education, and how she’s built a thriving education platform outside the standard educational system. Links and further reading: reconstruction.us and the NPR article on it Kaya’s podcast, Pod Save the People Kaya on LinkedIn Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at seandc@thrivedx.com. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great shows to learn from. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Daisy Christodoulou is an expert in learning theory who has focused her career on building and evangelizing research-based practice. In this episode, Sean and Daisy talk about educational myths in the areas of learning styles, teaching knowledge vs. skills, project-based learning, rubrics, studying techniques, and more. This is a long one but trust us: Daisy is worth it. Links and further reading: Sean’s review of Teachers vs. Tech. Daisy’s website, which has all the details of her books as well as links to purchase them, and her Twitter profile. The No More Marking website has many details about Comparative Judgement. Anki spaced repetition software (with links to Win, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android versions) and Daisy's blog post about Anki. Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve. Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at seandc@thrivedx.com. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Four of ThriveDX's amazing instructors (Ivan Suarez, Katie Embrey-Farquhar, Chris Mendoza, and Sean Klitzner) talk about what they’ve learned about teaching during Covid and share what works… and what doesn’t… in online teaching. It’s a great conversation with some incredible educators, and you'll definitely learn something from them. Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at seandc@thrivedx.com. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Note: this is part 2 of a 2-part episode. If you haven’t listened to part 1 yet, you may benefit from going back to hear how we define the terms of Blended Learning and related methodologies. Sherrina Henderson, ThriveDX’s Assistant Director of Associate Director of Digital Program Strategy and Performance, has a wealth of knowledge about education from her two decades of work and study in the field. In this two-part episode, Sean and Sherrina speak about all things Blended Learning. This part examines ways to create effective Blended Learning experiences. Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at seandc@thrivedx.com. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Note: this is part 1 of a 2-part episode. Sherrina Henderson, ThriveDX’s Assistant Director of Associate Director of Digital Program Strategy and Performance, has a wealth of knowledge about education from her two decades of work and study in the field. In this two-part episode, Sean and Sherrina speak about all things Blended Learning. This part defines the terms of Blended Learning and related methodologies, and the next will examine ways to create effective Blended Learning experiences. Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at seandc@thrivedx.com. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Sean interviews Dr. Aditya Nagrath about ways e-learning has transformed education, gamification of learning, math anxiety, and how those things influence the company and app he co-founded, Elephant Learning Math Academy, which makes the amazing claim that its students progress more than a year in math understanding in just 10 weeks of using the app 30 minutes a week! Elephant Learning Math Academy is in your app store, and you can learn more about it at elephantlearning.com.  Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at seandc@thrivedx.com. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Tens of thousands of learners take bootcamps every year to change careers or upskill themselves, and Sean was fortunate to be able to speak with three of them: Andrea Atkinson and Curtis Sweet (who completed the Cybersecurity Bootcamp program at U Miami), and Roof Sweatte (who completed the Digital Marketing bootcamp at NJIT). Andrea, Curtis, and Roof discuss their experience with education in general, why they chose a bootcamp, the experience of learning in a bootcamp, their experiences applying for their first jobs in their new careers, and advice for current or prospective bootcamp learners.  Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail. Reach out and share what matters to you. And finally: TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Note: this is part 2 of a 2-part episode. Taris Mullins is an expert on diversity and inclusion, and we’re lucky to learn from him in this episode of TFPE. Topics in part 2 of this episode include over-indexing for privilege, the problem with inequitable assessment, the impact of a teacher on a student’s self-perception, ways educators can create inclusive learning experiences, and the most meaningful thing you can do for your favorite teacher. Links and further reading from Taris: Taris’ LinkedIn page and email (he’d love to hear from you!) Racial Equity Institute: The Groundwater Approach Center for Public Education Brief: Educational Equity Brookings Institute: Challenges Facing Black Men The Leadership Academy: Culturally Responsive Leadership Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail. Reach out and share what matters to you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Note: this is part 1 of a 2-part episode. Taris Mullins is an expert on diversity and inclusion, and we’re lucky to learn from him in this episode of TFPE. Topics in part 1 of this episode include ways to create an inclusive learning environment, equality vs. equity, fostering introspection in educators, the importance of leadership, the “snowball effect” of inequity, and groundwater and the dying fish. (That last one will make sense once you listen, we promise.) Links and further reading from Taris: Taris’ LinkedIn page and email (he’d love to hear from you!) Racial Equity Institute: The Groundwater Approach Center for Public Education Brief: Educational Equity Brookings Institute: Challenges Facing Black Men The Leadership Academy: Culturally Responsive Leadership Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail. Reach out and share what matters to you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Last week’s episode featured Fred Menachem speaking about Holocaust Remembrance Day. One of the lessons I hope you came away with was the need to fight stereotypes and oppression wherever it happens and whoever it happens to. Today Fred gave another powerful commentary on a related theme, Black History Month, and interviewed two ThriveDX employees who shared their stories as well: Micah Roberts and Edson O'Neale. You'll learn a lot from their perspectives and their overall message of making this a month not just to learn, but to learn authentically, engage with difficult topics, and take action to create a more equal world. Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail. Reach out and share what matters to you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
In a heartfelt talk, Fred Menachem shares his thoughts on the meaning and importance of Holocaust Remembrance Day.  Links from the episode: Maus, by Art Spiegelman CNBC article on the Tennessee school board's ban of Maus, as well as the minutes from the board meeting Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail. Reach out and share what matters to you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
An accelerated professional learning program is much more than just learning a discipline; the end goal for most of our learners is landing a job.  Career Services is an essential component of their learning experience: it supports our learners during and after the academic program, prepares them for interviewing, teaches important soft skills, and empowers them to nourish and grow their careers for the future. In this episode, Sean speaks with Gabi Kamekona, our Head of Career Services, about the ways her team prepares students for the next step in their journeys. Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail. Reach out and share what matters to you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory and Mayer’s Multimedia Principles are two of the most fundamental and foundational elements in creating effective educational experiences. In this episode, Sean dives into the meaning of these important theories and how to apply them to generate outstanding learning outcomes.  Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail. Reach out and share what matters to you. References / further reading E-Learning Heroes. “Applying Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Learning in E-Learning #330.” Accessed December 20, 2021. https://community.articulate.com/articles/applying-principles-of-multimedia-learning-in-elearning. Center for Teaching and Learning | Wiley Education Services. “Principles of Multimedia Learning,” July 19, 2016. https://ctl.wiley.com/principles-of-multimedia-learning/. “Cognitive Load Theory: Helping Students’ Learning Systems Function More Efficiently | Franklin University.” Accessed December 20, 2021. https://www.franklin.edu/institute/blog/cognitive-load-theory-helping-students-learning-systems-function-more-efficiently. Kirschner, Paul A. “Cognitive Load Theory: Implications of Cognitive Load Theory on the Design of Learning.” Learning and Instruction 12, no. 1 (February 2002): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0959-4752(01)00014-7. Lovell, Oliver. Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory in Action. Melton, Woodbridge: John Catt Educational, 2020. Mayer, Richard E., Julie Heiser, and Steve Lonn. “Cognitive Constraints on Multimedia Learning: When Presenting More Material Results in Less Understanding.” Journal of Educational Psychology 93, no. 1 (2001): 187–98. https://doi.org/DOI: 10.1037//0022-0663.93.1.187. Mayer, Richard, and Richard E. Mayer. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning. Cambridge University Press, 2005. Sweller, John. “Cognitive Load During Problem Solving: Effects on Learning.” Cognitive Science 12, no. 2 (1988): 257–85. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog1202_4. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Sean shares his thoughts on building a comprehensive assessment strategy: what assessment is meant to accomplish, how to use it to measure progress toward learning goals, and some tips on building your own comprehensive assessment strategy. Further reading from this episode: Anastasiya A. Lipnevich and Jeffrey K. Smith, “RESPONSE TO ASSESSMENT FEEDBACK: THE EFFECTS OF GRADES, PRAISE, AND SOURCE OF INFORMATION,” ETS Research Report Series 2008, no. 1 (June 2008): i–57, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.2333-8504.2008.tb02116.x. ASCD. “Types of Assessment - ASCD PD Online.” Accessed November 12, 2021. https://pdo.ascd.org/lmscourses/PD11OC117/media/DI-Assessment_M1_Reading_Assessment.pdf. Lifehack. “How to Use Spaced Repetition to Remember What You Learn,” October 9, 2019. https://www.lifehack.org/851026/spaced-repetition. “Appendix 3: Sample Rubrics for Assessment.” Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, April 4, 2008. https://www.cbd.int/ibd/2008/Resources/teachers/appendix3.shtml. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
Sean shares advice on preparing for so-called "Difficult Conversations" in hopes that your next one will be a little less difficult. Notes from the episode: Scenarios for role-play: Student isn’t doing their homework and is at risk of failing out of class Student repeatedly shows up late to class (or just doesn’t show up) Employee keeps sending strongly worded emails and it’s affecting the team dynamic Employee is always marked “Away” on Slack, or declines meetings repeatedly, or just doesn’t respond to anything You’ve already given an employee feedback on two occasions about low performance that could lead to a PIP; their performance has not improved Or if you’re particularly brave: Your manager berated you in front of your team yesterday and you would like to help them make future feedback more constructive Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail. Reach out and share what matters to you. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tfpe/message
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