Education Trends Podcast
1) Liberal Arts Students Can Innovate, Too
At Davidson College, one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation, the new Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is becoming a go-to destination for students and others in the communi...Show More
2) A Voice for Change in Education
With Higher Learning Advocates, Julie Peller works toward making education accessible to students throughout the country by advocating for federal policies that will improve the system. Education Tren...Show More
3) The Rocket Fuel for Innovation
At the IDEA Center Innovation Lab at Notre Dame, students and faculty identify problems in the real world and then come up with solutions to solve them. As the director of the lab, Matt Leevy makes th...Show More
4) Innovation at the University Level Enters the Real World
At the Center for Innovation at UPenn, John Swartley is in charge of making real-world innovations happen by helping form partnerships between his higher education institution and the private sector. ...Show More
5) Making Learning A Lifelong Game
With LRNG, Connie Yowell and her team, in partnership with cities and universities like SNHU, learning is turning into a game-based system. Yowell believes that in order to prepare young people for wo...Show More
6) Teaching Journalism in a New, Data-Driven Way
How does an economist go about teaching journalism? With algorithms of course. That’s what James T. Hamilton does at Stanford University where he serves as Hearst Professor of Communication and the Di...Show More
7) How Veterans Are Changing the World Inside the Education System and Out
After a 20-year military career, which included time spent teaching cadets at West Point, Jonathan Due has learned what it means to educate a service member and the unique challenges that go with it. ...Show More
8) Cultivating Innovation
As Executive Vice President and Chief Research and Innovation Officer of Knowledge Enterprise Development at ASU, the work Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan does is leading to innovation and mind-molding th...Show More
9) Austen Allred: How to Create Job-Enabling Education with No Upfront Student Costs
Austen Allred saw a problem: students were becoming less willing to take a risk on higher education because they weren’t guaranteed a job in the other side. The solution? Lambda School. In this Missio...Show More
Austen Allred: How to Create Job-Enabling Education with No Upfront Student Costs
28:52 | Nov 16th, 2018
10) Making a MakerGirl
Stephanie Hein, the CEO of MakerGirl, has helped the nonprofit bring STEM education to young girls around the country. She explains here how STEM and what a MakerGirl learns through the program can se...Show More