The Learning Can’t Wait Podcast is your view into how changemakers are driving innovation in the field of education. Every week we interview leaders who are challenging the status quo at a time when it is absolutely necessary to rebuild the system for our students. We believe children everywhere deserve access to a quality education and educators everywhere should be compensated fairly. We believe learning can’t wait.
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The Learning Can’t Wait Podcast is your view into how changemakers are driving innovation in the field of education. Every week we interview leaders who are challenging the status quo at a time when it is absolutely necessary to rebuild the system for our students. We believe children everywhere deserve access to a quality education and educators everywhere should be compensated fairly. We believe learning can’t wait.
Equity, Differentiation, & Generative AI | Dr. Andy Shean
Learning Can’t Wait
28 minutes 10 seconds
2 months ago
Equity, Differentiation, & Generative AI | Dr. Andy Shean
In this episode of the Learning Can’t Wait Podcast, Andy Shean, Chief Learning Officer at Penn Foster Group, shares his personal journey from situational poverty to education leadership and underscores the transformative power of education. Shean describes his work at Penn Foster Group, a radically affordable, direct-to-career institution serving 300,000+ students, and introduces the LADDS model—Learner-centered, Authentic, Differentiated, and Skill-based learning—as a scalable framework for driving completion and equity in online education. He highlights innovations such as generative AI-powered feedback and multimodal learning, all designed to create high-quality, accessible learning for diverse communities. Shean closes by emphasizing the human side of online teaching and the importance of curiosity, belonging, and restlessness in effective education.
Learning Can’t Wait
The Learning Can’t Wait Podcast is your view into how changemakers are driving innovation in the field of education. Every week we interview leaders who are challenging the status quo at a time when it is absolutely necessary to rebuild the system for our students. We believe children everywhere deserve access to a quality education and educators everywhere should be compensated fairly. We believe learning can’t wait.
