Episode #166. Saturday September 16, 2023, 11:00 Eastern NOTE: Our apologies, due to technical error (i.e. forgetting to hit record) we do not have this episode archived. Oops! We do include some screenshots from the Zoom call below - just because. During the past...

Episode 165 | 4 Day School with John Kuhn Noon Eastern, 9/9/2023 A group of U.S. schools has implemented a 4-day school week. The number of school districts that offer 4 school days has grown significantly over the past 3 decades, from mere hundreds in the 1990s to...

This Episode will air at 12 pm EDT on Saturday August 26th Leading Edge Immersive Learning in Higher Education with Marcy Drummond, Greg Heilberger, and Jonathon Richter The hype and promise of immersive learning such as virtual reality or augmented reality has been...

Episode #163. Saturday August 19, 2023, 11:00 Eastern Contemporary Education and Changing Culture in Ukraine The war raging in Ukraine has been front page news for the past 18 months. The co-hosts at Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) have been concerned about the...

August 12, 2023 Noon Eastern Danielle McNamara, Scotty Craig, and Rod Roscoe join the SLL Team to discuss the emerging field of learning engineering—and discuss innovative methodologies to optimize educational experiences and leverage technology for improved learning...

Human Restoration Project: Reimagining Education with Future Forward Thinking As activist and author adrienne maree brown urges us, to “...fight for the future, get into the game, get dirty, get experimental…” – we need reimagined schools and public education now more...

Episode 160. Hosts reflect This episode aired on July 29, 2023 at noon, Eastern. https://youtu.be/PlLKPi7wu8k  

Episode #159. Saturday July 22, 2023, 11:00 Eastern Are you wondering if your language needs a boost? Attend Episode #159 of Silver Lining for Learning and get some answers. In fact, in this episode, we will chat with Fabrício Cararro, speaker of 14 languages, and...

Episode 158 | Saturday July 15, 2023, 11:00 Eastern Episode #158 will highlight a design-first approach to online and digital education taken at the University of Leeds in the UK. Two initiatives will be shared, Curriculum Redefined and the strategic growth of Online...

Episode 157 | The Little Bookmates Smart Library as a Literacy Initiatitive This episode will air on Saturday July 8, at noon EDT. The Little Bookmates Smart Library as a Literacy Initiative with Ariadna Trapote and Federico Suarez. If the large majority of printed...

This Episode will air at 11am ET, on Saturday 24 June Preparing Children in Africa for a Fast-Changing World with  Ms Shirley Eadie, Ms Salome Wenyaa, and Ms Hana Yoshimoto The world is undergoing rapid changes across multiple sectors, driven by trends such as...

Hosts reflect: June 17, 2023, 10 AM Eastern https://youtu.be/-5d30D7fB4s  

Episode #154. Saturday June 10, 2023, 10:00-11:00 am Eastern As Martin Weller argued in his insightful free and open book nearly a decade ago, we educators find ourselves in a battle for open. Many of us are contributing to the battle for openness by publishing in...

Episode #153. Saturday June 3, 2023, 12:00 noon Eastern Credentials. Seems everyone wants more credentials these days in a quest to find value in this fast-changing world. And they have scant time to wait for them or to move to a campus-based program. Coursera has its...

Episode #152. Saturday May 27, 2023, 11:00 noon Eastern The notion of open educational resources (OER) as well as opencourseware (OCW) sprung up on April 4, 2001 when Charles Vest, President of MIT, declared let’s make education free and put all our courses on the...