The potential for extended reality – the collective term for augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and mixed reality (MR) technologies – to change the way we learn is very substantial indeed. Read the thoughts and insights from Fergus Bruce, Director at Sublime.
The next in our mini-series on the edtech demonstrator programme in England, this time with a focus on back to school and college. Also in this episode, Fergus Bruce of Sublime talking us through this week’s guest blog and Caroline Wright of BESA with some events news. And finally, Charlie James of edtech demonstrator college, Basingstoke College of Technology, on from learner to learning technologist and blasted resits.
This week’s episode is all about some of the immediate responses to workforce training through technology in the wake of COVID-19. You’ll hear from professionals in both early years and further education, on how they engaged learners, helped support rapid training of the workforce and long term positive impact.
Artur Meyster is the Founder and CTO of Career Karma, helping people become software engineers through coding boot camps. In this guest blog post, Artur writes about FOUR reskills to consider in 2020. Happy reading!
The gap in education workforce decision making: Why data-driven insights are the key to elevating student outcomes. A guest blog post for The Edtech Podcast by PeopleBench Chief Education Officer, Dr Vicki Cameron.
This week, we are chatting to Bett’s Global Education Council, getting to grips with the council’s manifesto set in January and the way COVID has impacted the manifesto ideals and how urgently they are implemented.
Our guests reflect on how the pause given by the pandemic has allowed an opportunity to teach back better and how this can be achieved.
In the first of our new conversations making sense of the world with Covid, I speak to the CEO of 2U, Chip Paucek. We talk about why the University campus isn’t going to disappear anytime soon, what makes remote learning high-quality, and what it’s like to experience the highs and lows of being an edtech CEO and entrepreneur.
Plus, we made it to episode 200. Thanks for listening everyone.
Advancing technology education in rural high schools across America – a post by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education, U.S. Department of Education on launching a $600,000 challenge for tech skills development.
This week, you will hear from Chris Headleand, the Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln in the UK, about how he developed an innovative way to keep students and staff connected to the University of Lincoln during lockdown. We chat about the opportunity for Universities to really reinvigorate their teaching and learning, student centricity and the need to take the reality of local lockdowns and needs of shielding students seriously.
We throwback this week to a past recording with a learning technologist who offers up lots of useful frameworks for those who might be finding themselves thrown into the world of learning technology and online learning pedagogy and all the head-scratching that entails.
