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Latest Episodes
Episode 12: CHLOE 5 Special Report – The Pivot to Remote Teaching in Spring 2020 and Its Impact
In this episode, Phil Hill, Jeanette Wiseman, and Kevin Kelly discuss the latest CHLOE (Changing Landscape of Online Education) survey report put out by Quality Matters and Eduventures Research, based on responses from more than 300 online leaders at U...
Episode 11: From Darkness to Despair
In this episode, Phil Hill, Jeanette Wiseman, and Kevin Kelly discuss the growing pushback from many in the academic community to colleges’ and universities’ reopening plans, focusing on two recent articles arguing that we’ll be all online in the fall....
Episode 10: An Unhealthy Debate
In this episode, Phil Hill, Jeanette Wiseman, and Kevin Kelly discuss the emerging debate about opening plans. Are schools that plan to “reopen” really trying to go fully (or even mostly) in-person, or are they going hybrid? Should they?
Episode 9: The Wisdom of Teams
In this episode, Phil Hill, Jeanette Wiseman, Kevin Kelly, and Kevin’s cat discuss another pre-existing trend that has been accelerated by COVID. Team-based course design and teaching. Hosts: Phil Hill Jeanette Wiseman Kevin Kelly Transcription (in pro...
Episode 8: Chronocentrism and Questioning Predictions
In this episode, Phil Hill, Jeanette Wiseman, and Kevin Kelly discuss the concept of Chronocentrism as applied by John Watson to an education context. What if a lot of the common predictions we have turn out to be wrong?
Episode 7: Practical Advice for HyFlex
In this episode, Phil Hill, Jeanette Wiseman, and Kevin Kelly discuss some of the practical issues faced by students, instructors, and institutions when implementing HyFlex models. Hosts: Phil Hill Jeanette Wiseman Kevin Kelly Transcription (in progress):
Episode 6: The Floodgates
In this episode, Phil Hill, Jeanette Wiseman, and Kevin Kelly discuss multiple campus and system plans for Fall 2020, with many schools going public with reopening (hybrid) or staying online announcements over the past week.
Episode 5: California Dreaming
In this episode, Phil Hill, Jeanette Wiseman, and Kevin Kelly discuss multiple news items coming out of California that could be an early view into nationwide reactions – Cal State system remaining (mostly) virtual through Fall 2020 and California’s re...
Episode 4: HyFlex Updates and the Strong Get Stronger
Updates on HyFlex based on previous blog posts and podcasts, followed by discussion of social infrastructure of eLearning
Episode 3: Enter Darkness
In this episode, Phil Hill, Jeanette Wiseman, and Kevin Kelly discuss how different the Fall 2020 decision will be for campus decision-makers than was the Spring 2020 move to remote. The recent move was easy, in a way,