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What's in this episode?

• How does higher education address the fourth digital revolution - is it adapting fast enough?
• How can technology address some of the challenges around teacher student ratios? 
• How can we use practical education to re-position different geographies as skills destinations, and reverse the dreaded brain drain? 

Interviews with: 

• Pratik Dattani, Managing Director, EPG Economic and Strategy Consulting Group & Founder, EIC '17, UK 
• Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD/PISA, Austria 
• Justin van Fleet, Chief of Staff to Rt. Honourable Gordon Brown, in the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Global Education/Director of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity, USA
• Mammo Muchie, Research Professor on Innovation and Development, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
• Michael Kerrison, Director of Educational Innovation and Development, University of London 
• Dr. Jacob (Yaki) Dayan, Founder & CEO, Edtech Israel 
• Raman Talwar, CEO & Founder Director, Simulanis, India 
• Charles McIntyre, CEO, IBIS Capital, Co-Founder EdTechX 
• Cederik Haverbeke, co-founder and CTO of Edorble 

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References: 

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• Pratik Dattani: https://twitter.com/PratikEPG
• Andreas Schleicher: https://twitter.com/SchleicherOECD 
• OECD/PISA: http://www.oecd.org/pisa/ 
• Justin Van Fleet: https://twitter.com/justinvanfleet 
• Education World Forum: https://twitter.com/TheEWF 
• World Economic Forum: https://twitter.com/wef 
• The Learning Generation: http://report.educationcommission.org/report/ 
• Africa Talent Hub: https://twitter.com/africatalenthub 
• Tschwane University of Technology: http://www.tut.ac.za/ 
• Michael Kerrison: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-kerrison-b88a804/ 
• Edtech Israel: https://twitter.com/edtechisrael 
• Simulanis: https://twitter.com/Simulanis 
• Raman Talwar: https://twitter.com/Raman_Simulanis
• Edugild: https://twitter.com/edugildpune 
• Charles McIntyre: https://twitter.com/mcintyre_1 
• LearnLight: http://www.learnlight.com/ 
• EdtechX: https://twitter.com/EdTechEurope 
• SXSWedu: https://twitter.com/SXSWedu 
• Uni of London: https://twitter.com/UoLondon  

Announcing Media Partnership with SXSWedu® Conference & Festival

The Edtech Podcast will attend the seventh annual SXSWedu® Conference & Festival in Austin, March 6-9, 2017 to document the passionate and diverse community of education stakeholders brought together across its four days of programming. As part of our media partnership, listeners can access a $50 discount on tickets by going to http://sxswedu.com/ and entering the code reg-edu-etp_c5173c53f9 at check-out! Shout out @podcastedtech if you're going and use the code :) 

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