Silver Lining for Learning

How to make education changes happen in schools? What can technology do for students and educators? How do you spread changes to more schools? Join us on in this episode as we have a wonderful guest,…

On Saturday, December 19th, the hosts of Silver Lining for Learning gather to reflect on conversations with guests over the past nine months and look forward to the future.

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How does one teach from a boat or an ice shield in the Antarctic? Dr. Cassandra Brooks, an award winning Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and othe…

From their outset, MOOCs have been envisioned as engines of change. Whereas early conceptions of MOOCs centered around providing universal access to high quality education, our goal is for MOOCs to b…

The SLL guests this week are Dr. Edgar León, who teaches online graduate courses for the Education, Technology and Curriculum Graduate School at the Caribbean University;

Carmen Noble, who teaches Phy…

Fulden Ergen a Teachers Network Communications Expert and Tuğba İnanç, CEO and Co-Founder of Da Vinci Learning Academy in Turkey, discuss education inequalities in Turkey, such as inaccessibility of …

Education innovations do not only happen in schools. Cross-school collaboration is necessary for students and teachers to expand their access to different and more educational experiences. The Global…

Hla Hla Win and Yau Min Aung, co-Founders of 360ed discuss how their partnership with the Myanmar Ministry of Education has accelerated Myanmar education reform and helped to address  the dramatic sh…

Few SLL listeners know much about Nepal’s education system. Even fewer likely realize the innovative attempts in Nepal to take advantage of massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education. But…

The hosts of Silver Lining for Learning will gather together to reflect on the conversations they have had with guests over the past few weeks and look forward to the future.  An engaging and insight…

While the immediate and longer-term repercussions of the pandemic should not be minimized, there are also examples emerging of ways in which the pandemic may “leapfrog” and accelerate scaling innovat…

Guest, Sheila Jagannathan Head of the Open Learning Campus at the World Bank Group discusses her work and lessons from delivering MOOCs for global audiences on development topics such as maternal hea…

Students are at the core of all these conversations. The hosts want to know what students have been thinking, and what they expect from educators. Students as young as 12-year-olds share their inspir…

A conversation with experts about new models of education that are emerging during the pandemic. 

Guests professor Zoraini Wati Abas, Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Wawasan Open University in Penang, M…

China has controlled COVID-19 and has opened schools for all children. Our hosts invite three distinguished guests to discuss lessons from China. Dr Chuang Wang, Dean of the Faculty of Education at t…

The hosts of Silver Lining for Learning gather together to reflect on previous conversations with guests over the past few weeks. Thinking about lessons learned from bottom-up innovators as well as w…

The need to connect the underserved and marginalized to rich, relevant, and robust education and training opportunities has been mounting during the pandemic. Our guest this week, Maxim Jean-Louis, d…

Over the spring and summer there was one name I heard on the lips of P-12 educators more than any other. On August 29 at 5:30pm Eastern (USA), we are delighted to have Dr. Catlin Tucker as our guest …

Tina Grotzer discusses how virtual worlds hold promise for helping the next generation learn to think about complex causality and describes her work on the EcoXPT Project. Ahmad Rahimi discusses how …

Professor Stephen Heppell discusses his broad range of experiences with technological innovations in education. The conversation goes beyond what has been done and we will imagine together what’s com…