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Dr. Rob Reynolds of TEL Education discusses the future of higher education.
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These days, any popular apparatus or device is a good candidate to become a content and services channel. We’ve seen it with computers, smartphones, and cars. Not surprisingly, we’re seeing the same trend evolve with high ed institutions, as their local infrastructure is being transformed into a powerful channel to reach new audiences across the globe.---Perceptual illusions occur everywhere, including nature, art, and education. As humans, we are susceptible to them because we generally insi...
Welcome to "Education and Technology Futures," a podcast that highlights interesting trends and connections in the worlds of education, technology, and culture. In this inaugural episode, Rob takes a look at five BIG challenges facing education in the coming decade.---It’s awfully easy these days to find yourself looking up and asking, "With all the changes, what has really changed?" In other words, “What’s really new in all the new stuff?” Is the coming decade one where we’ll see real innova...
There is a growing number of financial analysis saying that 2020 is looking better and better for a good old fashioned recession.Analysts at UBS say the risk of recession or at least major contraction in the economy has shot up to 73%.Last month, Business Insider asked dozens of Wall Street experts and analysts about the most important trends in markets right now. One idea addressed multiple times from varying perspectives was the likelihood of a recession in 2020.But what would a reces...
Many would argue that hands-on, experiential learning is the ideal way to help people acquire new knowledge and skills. It’s certainly how most of us have obtained much of the valuable knowledge we use daily. And, it seems particularly valuable as we look at teaching the skills and literacies required for the modern workforce.In this podcast, I explore the potential of experiential learning as well as the challenges it can present. I also discuss briefly a new initiative at TEL to provide ope...
In the 21st century, instruction, as a holistic activity to support learning (demonstrable mastery), has evolved into a complex, multi-layered activity that involves multiple specializations and functions. If individual instructors struggled in the past to excel at the various roles they were asked to fulfill in their teaching, they find it impossible to be everything students require in today’s digitally informed learning environments.At TEL, we’re rethinking and redesigning course instructi...
My early thinking about successful web and web-based game design and has definitely shaped my philosophy regarding successful learning environments. More specifically, I believe that successful learning spaces — virtual and physical — should be interactive, and community-building.But what do we/I mean by interactive? In this episode, I identify four key ingredients for interactivity in learning environments and discuss their significance with regards to the student experience.
Full TranscriptFurther Reading on AI and AI in EducationThe World’s Largest 10 Economies in 2030Automation could hollow out the American workforceExpected Labor Cost Increases Continue To Drive Grocery Stores Toward AutomationAmericans Have Lost Faith In Their Ability To Move From Poverty To RichesGlobalization 4.0: The Human ExperienceTop 6 Trends in Higher Education
Full TranscriptFurther Reading on AI and AI in Education:What is machine learning?What Is Deep Learning?Beyond Machine Learning: Capturing Cause-and-Effect RelationshipsDeep Learning: The Confluence of Big Data, Big Models, Big ComputeFacial and emotional recognition; how one man is advancing artificial intelligenceDon’t overestimate AI’s understanding of human languageA neural network can learn to organize the world it sees into concepts—just like we doHow Is AI Used In Education -- Real Wor...
“We talk a lot about grit in higher education. Grit only goes so far if you’ve never experienced success and grit only goes so far if you have no idea what to do next. What this partnership does is it teaches them what to do next. It gives them confidence.”In this interview, Dr. Rob Reynolds talks with Dr. Karen Ferguson, Provost and VP of Enrollment at Salem University, about the challenges and opportunities in serving non-traditional and rural students. Dr. Ferguson discusses her own ...
Careers often take a winding path. TEL's Director of Curriculum knows this first-hand. Brooke Heard took the helm of TEL’s Curriculum department earlier this year and is helping the non-profit organization find options that meet students where they are. In this conversation with Executive Director Rob Reynolds, they discuss some of the reasons why TEL is adding options such as course bundles and certificates to meet the needs of employers and adult learners.
Being poor should not be a barrier to education. Dr. DeWayne Frazier grew up in rural Appalachia. He was the first in his family to graduate from high school, much less go to college. Even before becoming a higher education administrator, he understood the importance of education. And he knows first-hand the extra hurdles poverty can create during a student’s academic journey.In this podcast episode, Dr. Frazier talks about his passion for making education accessible for any student who ...
“This is directly from [OKWU President] Dr. Dunn: 'Educating the head, but also the heart, the hands, and the habits.' So this is the thought of educating the whole person. That can't just be something that is done outside of the classroom, where the professor is in charge of the head and we'll let other people in the university deal with all these other aspects. It has to be integrated into our pedagogy, and integrated into how we are interacting with the students.”Oklahoma Wesleyan Universi...
"That's exactly where I see asynchronous learning going. It's not necessarily capital A asynchronous. It's maybe lowercase a [asynchronous] with some support from the institution where the student enrolled."Dr. John Morrison is TEL's Director of Product Vision, helping our teams coordinate our products and services while also growing and expanding what we offer to schools. In this interview with TEL's Executive Director, John shares why he is so passionate about helping students from disadvan...
“Our goal really from the beginning was to administer the test, to make sure it is a fair test and that all students were operating under the same ruleset. It wasn't about catching cheaters. People have this idea that people online cheat more than they do in the classroom. And that's just not true from my experience. If you provide the proper supervision and replicate or make it comparable to the classroom, you're going to see students put in their best efforts. Truth of the matter is, it's a...
"We have some people that come to us that maybe they tried college 20 years ago, and life happened, or it didn't go well, or they made some bad decisions, whatever it is, but just respecting them for coming now and knowing that they bring strength and experience to the table. How do we honor that, walk alongside them, and give them confidence as they re-enter higher end?"In this episode of the Education Futures Podcast, Rob talks with Dr. Sada Knowles, the Dean of New College at Oklahoma Chri...
"On top of this learning that you are doing about content that you are also learning this layer about being a better learner, being connected, gathering tools that you will use for the rest of your life."In this second podcast conversation with Executive Director Rob Reynolds and Chief Information Officer Stacy Zemke, they go deeper into the Student Learning Dashboard and the specific features students can expect. Starting now, students can take advantage of the tools to make learning visible...
"That's where backward design is really valuable because it's not starting with, 'What textbook are we going to read?' or 'What assignments are we going to do?' It really starts with what do we want the students to be able to do."Dr. Cat Jackson is TEL Education's Chief Learning and Research Officer and manages the curriculum team behind the TEL courses. In this podcast with Dr. Rob Reynolds, they discuss the foundations of our curriculum and how they focus on helping students show mastery. T...
"The whole idea of the dashboard is to make all of those invisible things visible. To give them a place where they can see, 'Oh, okay, I took these classes and these classes are tied to these skills. And hey, I'm making progress on learning that skill. That's kind of cool. I can see that now.' There should be no mystery in what they are learning."For several years, TEL's Executive Director Rob Reynolds and Chief Information Officer Stacy Zemke have been talking about how to make learning visi...
"I'm starting to see [the non-traditional students and traditional students], they've been blended together in a significant way through this whole pandemic and I don't know if they will be teased apart in the same way that they were before."As the Executive Director of Strategic Partnerships and Digital Learning for Evangel University, Mark Fabian has had a front-row seat to the gradual then all-at-once transition to digital learning. In this conversation with Dr. Rob Reynolds, Mark talks ab...
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