AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
AECT Distinguished Development (2022)
Outstanding Digital Learning Artifact (2022)
Annual Achievement Award (2023)


Episode 231 | Stepping Up: Refugees in Need of Higher Education and So Much More
Episode 231| Stepping Up: Refugees in Need of Higher Education and So Much More,12 Noon Eastern, 4/19/2025 With climate change, political unrest, wars, famine, there are countless people experiencing forced migration today as well as others impacted by the suspension...
Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) is an ongoing conversation on the future of learning with educators, education leaders, innovators, and learners from across the globe. Hosted by Chris Dede, Curt Bonk, Lydia Cao, Punya Mishra & Yong Zhao, these conversations began under the “dark cloud” of the COVID19 crisis and continue today. We see these conversations as an opportunity to discuss the creation of equitable, humanistic and sustainable learning ecosystems that meet the needs of all learners. These conversations are typically recorded every Saturday. The videos are archived on this website and the conversations are also available in podcast form on all major podcast apps.
More about the mission and history of SLL can be found in this article: Silver Lining for Learning as a bottom up driver of innovation.
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Episode 202 | Hosts Reflect
Episode 202: Hosts reflect | This episode will air August 10, 2024, at Noon Eastern https://youtu.be/FkS5p-tE1To
Episode 201 | Looking to the future…
Date & Time of show: August 3, 2024, Noon Eastern As we kick off our 201st episode of the Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) webinar series, we're turning our attention to the future of education. Over the past 200 episodes, we've explored a wide range of topics...
Episode 200 | Celebrating 200 episodes of SLL with David Berliner & Tom Reeves
This episode will air, July 27, 2024 at 11 AM Eastern Celebrating our 200th episode of the Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) webinar series is a milestone that speaks for itself. Over the past four years, we've had the privilege of hosting educators, students, and...
Episode 199 | Connecting Alternative Education Around the World: The WEquil App Story
Episode 199: Connecting Alternative Education Around the World: The WEquil App Story, July 20, 2024, 12:00pm Eastern Time Frustrated by the challenges of remote learning during the pandemic, two young sisters—Sumay Lu, 14, and Aila Lu, 11—took matters into their own...
Episode 198 | Universities in Flux to Capture and Keep Adult Learners
Episode #198 | Universities in Flux to Capture and Keep Adult Learners, July 13, 2024, 11 am Eastern Given student demographics and fast changing societal needs, it is extremely difficult today for higher education institutions to maintain enrollments and even harder...
Episode 197 | The Future of E-Learning in Post-COVID Africa
Episode 197: The Future of E-Learning in Post-COVID Africa, June 29, 2024, 11 am Eastern Learning is changing. It is changing every day. It is changing in North America. It is changing in western Australia. It is changing in the Middle East. It is changing in Latin...
Episode 196 | Hosts reflect
Episode 196 will air Noon Eastern on June 15, 2024 https://youtu.be/mSrz8fFUjik
Episode 195 | Using 21st Century Online Learning to Teach Girls in Afghanistan
This Episode will air at 11 am EDT on Saturday June 8th Using 21st Century Online Learning to Teach Girls in Afghanistan with Timothy Stiven, Jasmin Azizi, and Andishvar Mohibi Since April 2021, Timothy Stiven is leading an initiative in which high school...
Episode 194 | Social-Emotional Skills in Chilean Classrooms
This Episode will air at 12 pm EDT on June 1, 2024 Social-Emotional skills in Chilean classrooms with Francisca Astudillo, Francisca Sáez and Sofía Larraín Social-emotional skills are widely recognized as vital tools for youth to thrive in society, sparking a growing...
Episode 193 | Champions of Robotics
Champions of Robotics Episode 193, Saturday May 25 at 12 noon Eastern Some of the most powerful principles of learning in the 21st century relate to collaboration and teamwork, hands-on doing, and learning relevancy and meaningfulness. As such, Episode #193 of Silver...
Episode 192 | Building Worlds: Connected Camps in Minecraft
Hypothetically Speaking: What-if the Entire World had Connected Camps in Minecraft? Episode 192, Saturday May 11 at 12 noon Eastern What-if Hypothetical Implementations of Minecraft (Project WHIMC) is the brainchild of Chad Lane and Jeff Ginger at the University of...
Episode 191 | Hosts reflect
Episode 191 | Hosts reflect Noon Eastern, May 4, 2024. https://youtu.be/tdnXGyJadO0 Episode 191 of Silver Lining for Learning featured a conversation between Yong Zhao, Chris Dede, and Curt Bonk. They discussed the rapidly evolving role of AI in education, ...
Episode 190 | Digitally operated one room schoolhouses for underprivileged out-of-school children
Episode 190, Saturday April 27 at 7 pm Eastern Attend Episode 190 of Silver Lining for Learning (SLL) and learn about the mission and history of EDvantage Digital Learning Systems (ELDS). In particular, you will discover how ELDS provides digitally operated one room...
Episode 189 | Higher Education Futures at the Intersection of Hope, Justice, and EdTech
Episode 189, Saturday April 20 at 6 pm Eastern Special Issue; Special Show: Exploring Higher Education Futures at the Intersection of Hope, Justice, and EdTech Session Abstract: In Episode #189 of Silver Lining for Learning, we will explore a special issue of the...
Episode 188 | The Conversation Continues: The U.S. DOE National Educational Technology Plan Part 2: The Future
Episode 188, Saturday April 6 at 12:00 Noon Eastern, The Conversation Continues: The U.S. DoE National Educational Technology Plan Part 2: The Future Session Abstract (with assistance from ChatPDF as well as ChatGPT). Part 2 of the conversation on the US National...
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