The Edtech Podcast

Welcome to episode four of the Education 4.0 series co-curated with Jisc. This week’s episode is all about how universities and colleges are thinking big with tech to improve their student and staff experiences on campus Enjoy! and don't forget to message in or post using #edu4_0! 

We kick off this week's episode with our friends at Cool Initiatives on the CI Education Challenge 2019 before continuing with our conversations recorded at GESF earlier this year. First up is Dr Yuhyun Park from the DQ Institute on their vision of #DQforAll – empowering every individual with digital quotient. We then hear from Global Teacher Prize nominee Emma Russo, whose ambition in teaching has focused on creating and promoting opportunities for girls in physics and engineering. 

This week we throwback to my visit to Dubai in March. I was visiting the Global Education and Skills Forum, which hosts the global teacher prize and the next billion prize. The next billion edtech prize was launched by the The Varkey Foundation to recognise the most innovative technology destined to have a radical impact on education in low income and emerging world countries. In this episode you'll hear a variety of voices from Tanzania, USA, Egypt, India, and the UK (via Belgium).

Welcome to episode three of the Education 4.0 series co-curated with Jisc. This week’s episode of our series looks at where, when and how will learning happen when many of us spend lots of time online.  Enjoy! and don't forget to message in or post using #edu4_0!

We delve into some listener feedback on the edtech strategy published last week by the department for education in the UK. We’ve got to know some of the edtech strategies and approaches by different Governments around the world so it is interesting to reflect on developments closer to home. What are the wider education and edtech sector thinking about these developments? We asked and you delivered! Here’s a selection of your thoughts in this our special episode, with thanks to everyone who contribute

Hello listeners! This week’s episode is a treasure trove digging into digital skills development. You’ll hear from Kerensa Jennings on the art of audio production and digital skill access for all, Iris Lapinski on new learning tools early adopter teachers who want to pick up new skills in machine learning and AI, and Patrick Cutliffe who is working with Facebook to upskill a huge cohort of 18-30 year old learners to earners.

Hello! This week you'll hear a cameo from my L.O when he was far more little and trying out his microphone skills, plus a panel of teachers from around the world and in wildly different settings on what they want from edtech. This episode was recorded LIVE at the Global Education and Skills World Forum. Enjoy, and send us your feedback and comments!  

Hello dear listeners and welcome to episode two of the Education 4.0 series. This episode was largely recorded at the recent Digifest event run by Jisc. I'm in conversation with a variety of edtech entrepreneurs, further and higher education specialists in information technology, big data ethics and skills development about what Education 4.0 means and what the implications might be for how we "do" education. I hope you enjoy and don't forget to message in or post using #edu4_0! 

This week i'm in conversation with Ed Fidoe of the London Interdisciplinary School on launching a new style of degree University set up to tackle "humanity’s most complex problems". We also throw back to an old recording from Innovate Edtech with a Governor and edtech entrepreneur, a teacher and a dyslexic learning technology advisor in conversation about what makes great learner experience design. Big shout out to Cool Initiatives for sponsoring this episode. 

This week we’ve got an interplanetary episode with Francois Taddei of the Center for Research & Interdisciplinarity in Paris. Francois talks about collective intelligence, and going back to the ideals of the University in the freedom to learn and to connect with our mentors.

Hello listeners! This week’s episode is the first in a few episodes where we start to dig into some contemporary educational research and how that might inform teaching and learning decisions, leadership and product design.  What else? A big thanks to Canvas by Instructure for sponsoring this week’s episode. We rely on support like this to keep us writing, editing, and publishing so thanks again! Enjoy!

This week I’m super excited to share the first episode in our new series Education 4.0, co-curated with our friends at Jisc. You can follow the conversation using #Edu4_0.  This week is all about teaching transformed covering everything from setting up an entirely new teaching and learning campus, blended learning, the limitations of online and much more. Hear from The University of Northampton,

Coming soon…Education 4.0 – a new series on The Edtech Podcast co-curated with JISC. This seven-part podcast series will examine the changing world of higher and further education. To listen to the series, subscribe now on iTunes and Android players to The Edtech Podcast, or check out our feeds @JISC and @podcastedtech. Follow the conversation using #Edu4_0

Hello everyone, this week we listen into the Secretary of State for Education's plans for Edtech in England, plus the creative brains behind Scratch on the early days of computers, a teacher and the institute of imagination on hands on learning, a new club for edutainment toys, and an insanely enthusiastic digital media FE teacher on collecting masters and delving into research on AI, our emotions and learning. Enjoy! 

In this week’s episode, we speak to Global innovators from around the world, as recorded at HundrED Summit in Helsinki. There’s a natural link to last week’s guest Pia Pakarinen who talked about entrepreneurialism and education and many of our guests have a background in user design or brand and have found success in applying their thinking to creating bold learning experiences. Plus, find out about a new audio and podcasting competition for young people - The Young Arias.