Podcasts

The Radio Free Learning podcast offers an ongoing series of interviews with interesting people in the world of lifelong learning and personal growth and development. We publish a new podcast roughly once a month, and each one runs from 20 to 30 minutes. You can listen to each podcast individually, or:

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You can explore the full selection of podcasts in the podcasts category here on Mission to Learn, or start with a couple of our favorites:

Howard Rheingold – Social Media Classroom

Anyone who has read virtual community pioneer Howard Rheingold’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 the Social Media Classroom platform (built on the open source CMS Drupal) and also to hear Howard’s thoughts on the current state of “media literacy” in the world.

Open Textbooks with Flatworld Knowledge

Flatworld Knowledge has been creating something of a stir lately with its plan to introduce free, open textbooks into the higher education market.  I recently had the chance to talk with Flatworld’s chief marketing officer, Eric Frank, about what’s wrong with the textbook industry, what Flatworld is trying to do about it, and how a business can be sustainable when it gives its core product away for free.