Podcasts

Podcast with Mindbites’ Jason Reneau

April 6, 2009

Nearly two years ago a friend introduced me to Jason Reneau, who at the time was in the process of getting his new company, MindBites, off the ground. Since then, I’ve watched as MindBites and a number of other “teach-learn-share” sites, as I tend to think of them, have sprouted and grown. Some of these [...]

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Podcast: Lifelong Learning With Bill Draves

February 5, 2009

I recently caught up with Bill Draves, co-founder of the Learning Resources Network (LERN) to discuss his perspectives on lifelong learning in a 2.0 world.  Aside from serving as the president of LERN, Bill is the author of Teaching Online and of How to Teach Adults – which I believe has sold north of 100,000 [...]

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Howard Rheingold – Social Media Classroom

November 25, 2008

I had the pleasure of speaking recently with virtual community pioneer Howard Rheingold about the new Social Media Classroom platform he has launched. Anyone who has read Howard’s work or heard him speak before knows that he always has interesting things to say. This is no exception. Listen in to find out what’s up with [...]

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Opening Up the Ivy League with Finals Club

November 6, 2008

As part of the ongoing Radio Free Learning podcast series here at Mission to Learn I recently caught up with Andrew Magliozzi, founder of FinalsClub.org. For the past year or so, FinalsClub has been shaking up Harvard by providing a site where students can access notes from courses offered at the venerable institution. More recently, [...]

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Podcast: Mobile Learning with Mookee

October 23, 2008

Recently I spoke with Matt Wilks about Mookee, a new open source platform he has created for mobile learning. Matt and I talked about the opportunities and challenges of mobile learning as well as what Mookee will provide for teachers, learners, and developers. Here’s the MP3 file link in case you do not see the [...]

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