EPISODE · Jan 6, 2025 · 34 MIN
Episode 177: Creating the Digital Learning Future Our Students Deserve
from TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast
In celebration of 30 years of OLC conferences and with input and reactions from our community of online/digital learning professionals, including a live audience(!), hosts Tom and Kelvin discuss the issues inherent in predicting and shaping a desirable future for online/digital education over the next 30 years. Podcast Recording Download Transcript: PDF #advgb-cols-a428c0b2-466d-4b77-bd44-135e612e0f57{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-cols-a428c0b2-466d-4b77-bd44-135e612e0f57{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-cols-a428c0b2-466d-4b77-bd44-135e612e0f57{}}#advgb-col-df96cb58-2486-4908-b681-39d6aba8d5e6>.advgb-column-inner{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-col-df96cb58-2486-4908-b681-39d6aba8d5e6>.advgb-column-inner{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-col-df96cb58-2486-4908-b681-39d6aba8d5e6>.advgb-column-inner{}}#advgb-col-b2fb52ca-4d8f-4c8a-8619-c800793148e6>.advgb-column-inner{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-col-b2fb52ca-4d8f-4c8a-8619-c800793148e6>.advgb-column-inner{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-col-b2fb52ca-4d8f-4c8a-8619-c800793148e6>.advgb-column-inner{}} Episode 177 Show Notes: Episode Synopsis via Twitter View complete list of episode highlights via Twitter Coffee Links  [Book] Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey (by A.J. Jacobs) #advgb-cols-0bf0e6b4-a175-4bbb-a010-36aa78dca61d{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-cols-0bf0e6b4-a175-4bbb-a010-36aa78dca61d{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-cols-0bf0e6b4-a175-4bbb-a010-36aa78dca61d{}}#advgb-col-2016db19-292e-47c4-a7c0-1df410298752>.advgb-column-inner{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-col-2016db19-292e-47c4-a7c0-1df410298752>.advgb-column-inner{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-col-2016db19-292e-47c4-a7c0-1df410298752>.advgb-column-inner{}}#advgb-col-9a9427a0-e5fe-4fdc-939a-ed7016338225>.advgb-column-inner{}@media screen and (max-width: 1023px) {#advgb-col-9a9427a0-e5fe-4fdc-939a-ed7016338225>.advgb-column-inner{}}@media screen and (max-width: 767px) {#advgb-col-9a9427a0-e5fe-4fdc-939a-ed7016338225>.advgb-column-inner{}} Content Links  [From CERN] “A Short History of the Web” [On the Bavablog by Jim Groom] “Archie, Veronica, and Other Old Gold Technologies” [OLC/Sloan-C History] “Pioneering Higher Education’s Digital Future: An Evaluation of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Anytime, Anyplace Learning Program (1992-2012)” (Picciano et al.) [From the Carnegie Foundation] “The Carnegie Unit” [From the Christensen Institute] “Disruptive Innovation Theory” Background on 2024 OLC Accelerate Keynote Dr. Christina Katopodis [Book via Project MUSE] Learning Online: The Student Experience (by George Veletsianos – quoted in this episode) Quote attributed to Alan Kay: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” On Being Uniquely Human – Poet, Philosopher, and Theologian Examples [From the On Being podcast with Krista Tippett] “Seeking Language Large Enough” – Interview with Poet David Whyte [Via Wikipedia] Martin Buber’s “I/Thou” Relationships Summary of Karl Barth’s Criteria for Authentic Human Meetings (Built on Buber’s I/Thou) in Relation to AI [in Book Review: “Kinstler on Herzfeld, ‘The Artifice of Intelligence: Divine and Human Relationship in a Robotic Age’”] Just for Fun Pop Culture Links [Video] “You Look Marvelous” (Billy Crystal) Extra Special Feature Video Version of This Episode!
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