TOPcast: The Teaching Online Podcast

Episode 177: Creating the Digital Learning Future Our Students Deserve

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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.

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Coffee Links 
  • [Book] Thanks A Thousand: A Gratitude Journey (by A.J. Jacobs)
    • 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)
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