The Learning Nerds Podcast

Episode 7: ACT’s Corporate Learning: from an Expense to an Investment (ft. Jennifer Yi-Boyer) by Smart Sparrow

In this episode of The Learning Nerds, Keene State College’s Kimberly Schmidl-Gagne, Patrick Dolenc, and Smart Sparrow VP of Learning Architecture Amanda Newlin sat down to discuss creating dissonance in academic spaces, and how this fuels critical thinking. Learn more: https://www.blendedcourses.org/courses/economic-inequality/

Dr. Dror Ben-Naim, Founder & CEO of Smart Sparrow, discusses what digital offerings should look like in today's education world, how organizations can make a push toward quality over scale, and what various types of educators (e.g. higher education, K–12, publishers, corporate learning) can do to meet the demands of instructors, learning designers, and learners. Read more and subscribe: https://landing.smartsparrow.com/the-learning-nerds-podcast

ACT, Inc. CEO Marten Roorda shares his vision for the future of their organization (currently most well-known for their college admissions test), explains how ACT is evolving to become a 'Learning, Measurement, and Navigation company’, and discusses what he sees as a new ecosystem for education. Learn more: https://www.smartsparrow.com/2018/11/01/transforming-act-a-podcast-discussion-with-ceo-marten-roorda/ From the episode: "The linear ecosystem has changed into a nonlinear system -- that's...

Professor Peter McHenry from The College of William & Mary and Learning Designer Grace Dover from Smart Sparrow discuss how they collaborated to create personalized, engaging learning experiences for students in a large economics course. "I took lecture material and put it online with adaptive pathways for students — so they hopefully learn more. We still have just as much class time, I'm just freeing up that class time to do other things." Read more:...

This time, we take you to the Learning Innovation Summit 2018 hosted on June 15 at the NASA Ames Conference Center. You'll hear Heather Newlin, Senior Learning Architect at Smart Sparrow, as she sits down to speak with attendees across a variety of roles in education. Together, they discuss projects in technology and learning over the last decade, inspirations for future projects, big issues in online teaching today, and their biggest takeaways from the summit. Read more:...

Introductory episode to The Learning Nerds Podcast: an edtech learncast for people who seek to push the boundaries of education, exploring the intersection of design, learning, and technology. Visit www.smartsparrow.com/the-learning-nerds-podcast to learn more about the podcast.