Episodes

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...

Date / Time: May 20, 2023, 8 PM (Eastern); 5 PM AZ; 10AM Sunday Melbourne introduction: Education is typically considered a human right but for 450 million young people living in conflict zones around the world, schooling is an early casualty of war. Online education...

  This Episode will air at Saturday, May 13th, 2023 at 12:00pm EDT How the Dominican Republic Overcame Educational Challenges of the Pandemic with guests María Waleska Álvarez from EDUCA and Eladio Jimenez from UNICEF This episode will discuss the Dominican...

This Episode will air on Saturday May 6th at 8 pm EDT Applying Human-Centered Engineering Methods to Learning with Jim Goodell, Janet Kolodner, and Sae Schatz “Learning engineering is a process and a practice that applies the learning sciences, using human-centered...

This Episode will air at 11 am EDT on Saturday April 29th The Finnish Way - Preparing university students for life with Ulla Hemminki-Reijonen, Kati Kettunen, and Outi Toijala When talking about Finland, the discussion always begins with the welfare society and...

Hosts Reflect | April 22, 2023 - Noon Eastern https://youtu.be/cgMltz8BGvM    

Episode 146 | Saturday April 1, 2023, 12:00 noon Eastern In Episode #145 of Silver Lining for Learning, Sophia Mendoza, Paul Kim, Kiran Bit Sethi, and Shuangye Chen discuss what the future of education might look like with a three-year lens. In Episode #146 we welcome...

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...