In this podcast, John Nash and Jason Johnston take public their two-year long conversation about online education and their aspirations for its future. They acknowledge that while some online learning has been great, there is still a lot of room for improvement. While technology and innovation will be a topic of discussion, the conversation will focus on how to get online learning to the next stage, the second half of life.
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In this podcast, John Nash and Jason Johnston take public their two-year long conversation about online education and their aspirations for its future. They acknowledge that while some online learning has been great, there is still a lot of room for improvement. While technology and innovation will be a topic of discussion, the conversation will focus on how to get online learning to the next stage, the second half of life.
EP 17 - Bonus Fall “Catch-up” Episode as John and Jason talk about current reading, fall presentations, and upcoming OLC sessions.
Online Learning in the Second Half
17 minutes 19 seconds
2 years ago
EP 17 - Bonus Fall “Catch-up” Episode as John and Jason talk about current reading, fall presentations, and upcoming OLC sessions.
In this episode, John and Jason talk about current reading, recent seminars, and their upcoming OLC Accelerate Conference (2023) presentation in Washington, DC
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Resources:
John’s Book Recommendations:The Renée Ballard series by Michael Connely
Kay Scarpetta series by Patricia Cornwell
The Whistler and The Judges List by John Grisham
How to Make Sense of Any Mess, by Abby Covert
Jason’s Book Recommendation:Everything is Figureaboutable, by Marie Forleo
John & Jason’s Slides from the University of Tennessee’s 1st AI Symposium “Reimagining online assignments with and because of AI”
John’s Slides from Sweden where he talked about the promise of AI and whether it can democratize innovation or dilute quality.
OLC Session 1: EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF AI ON STUDENT CONNECTION AND BELONGING IN EDUCATION (Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 9:30 AM to 10:15 AM)
OLC Session 2: ONLINE LEARNING IN THE SECOND HALF: TURNING DANGERS INTO OPPORTUNITIES (Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:15 PM to 2:00 PM)
Contact John or Jason through LinkedIn if you are an educational podcaster and would like to join them in a recording session!
Transcript
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[00:00:00] John Nash: Do you smile when you talk? Did you know when you smile while you talk, it actually makes you sound like you're like.
funny. It
works.
[00:00:06] Jason Johnston: that's what they, that's what they told us to do in telemarketing.
[00:00:09] John Nash: That's right. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. I'm John Nash here with Jason Johnston.
[00:00:14] Jason Johnston: Now I'm laughing. I can't. Okay, I'll
try it again.
Intro
[00:00:19] John Nash: I'm John Nash here with Jason Johnston. Yeah, we're doing this podcast to let you in on a conversation we've been having for the last couple of years about online education. Look, online learning's had its chance to be great and a lot of it is, but a lot of it still isn't. How are we going to get to the next stage, Jason?
[00:00:42] Jason Johnston: That's a great question. And I've got an idea. How about we do a podcast and talk about it?
[00:00:48] John Nash: I love that idea. Let's do it right now.
[00:00:50] Jason Johnston: good. Today, I wondered if we could talk just a little bit about the road behind, the road ahead, what we've been doing lately what we will be doing next, we've got some exciting events that we're doing together in the next little bit.
[00:01:03] John Nash: We do.
We do.
[00:01:04] Jason Johnston: First I was wondering about have you been reading anything these days, John?
[00:01:09] John Nash: I've been reading my usual kinds of journal articles and other things , but 2023 has been a little different for me in terms of the topic of reading because the funniest thing happened to me in January of this year. I started reading electively non academic. books, novels. And I don't know how it happened, but I just did. I was I was on a work trip to Honolulu and I found, I discovered that you can check out books from your public library and put them on your Kindle.
I didn't know about Libby, the app Libby.
[00:01:45] Jason Johnston: Libby's amazing.
[00:01:47] John Nash: Yeah, it's amazing. I'm running around my friend's house in Honolulu going, Hey, do you know you can do this? As if, just split the atom or something. And yeah. And so I've been reading I read a bunch of Michael Connolly novels. About a female detective in Los Angeles contemporary of Bosch's, and I liked those a lot, and now I'm on like book 12 of the novels about Kay Scarpetta, the fictional and famous Virginia chief medical examiner it's a longstanding series written by Patricia Cornwell.
[00:02:20] Jason Johnston: Is this like a secret desire to be a detective and solve crimes for a
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Online Learning in the Second Half
In this podcast, John Nash and Jason Johnston take public their two-year long conversation about online education and their aspirations for its future. They acknowledge that while some online learning has been great, there is still a lot of room for improvement. While technology and innovation will be a topic of discussion, the conversation will focus on how to get online learning to the next stage, the second half of life.
