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...
Posts about: Curtis Bonk
Episode 153 | Micro-credentials and Specializations for the Masses: Alternatives for a Nontraditional Age
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 | Pondering the Future of OER and Open Education
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...
Episode 145 | 3rd Year Anniversary Show: The Future of Education
Episode 145. Saturday March 25, 2023, 12:00 noon Eastern What is the future of education? Thousands of people have been pondering that since the start of the pandemic three years ago. The guests and hosts at Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) have been pondering that...
Episode 142 | Through The Staff: A Global Virtual Musical Community Helping Kids Achieve Their Dreams
Episode #142. Saturday March 4, 2023, 5:30 pm Eastern Through The Staff (TTS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the United States created in the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic. TTS aims to connect 2nd-12th grade students with volunteer university...
Episode 140 | Bans Don’t Work in an Open World: Afghan Women Find Educational Opportunities in Bangladesh
Episode #140. Saturday February 18, 2023, 11:00 am Eastern Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in 2021, higher education has become increasingly limited for young women and often suspended and banned. According to a January 24, 2023 article in Inside Higher Ed,...
Episode 139 | Is it Time to Lead or About Time We LED?: Learning Experience Design & Personalized Learning
Episode 139 | Saturday February 11, 2023, 5:30 pm Eastern Many job roles and responsibilities are rapidly changing here in the third decade of the twenty-first century. According to a December 19, 2022 article in the Evolllution, A Time for Learning Experience...
Episode 137 | Mental Health, Mindfulness, and the Movement Toward Social-Emotional Learning
Episode #137. Saturday January 28, 5:30 pm Eastern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjVq0Q2LMYM Issues of social and emotional learning have always been a critical cornerstone of schooling. In particular, mental health and well-being had already become a rising concern...
Episode 134 | The Future of Education? Now, You can Literally Google It
Episode #134. Saturday January 7, 5:30 pm Eastern What might the future of education look like? Google for Education collaborated with research partner Canvas8 to conduct a study across 24 countries on the future of education. The result is a three-part global report...
Episode 126 | Three Decades of Insights from the Escuela Nueva School Model
Episode #121. Saturday October 22, 2022, 4:30 pm Eastern School reform and innovation is never easy. In this episode of Silver Lining for Learning, we will meet with Vicky Colbert, a sociologist from Columbia, South America. She is co-author of the worldwide renowned...