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Increasing Access to Education for Every Student Everywhere with Nina Huntemann

IMPACT LEARNING

English - October 01, 2020 04:05 - 1 hour - 55.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratings
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Production team:

Host : Maria Xenidou

Introduction Voice: David Bourne

 

 Contact us:

impactlearningpodcast(at)gmail.com

 

 Music credits:

Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals

Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks

 

Where to find more about Nina Huntemann and edX:

On LinkedIn

edX.org  

 

Mentioned in this episode:

Penn State

Suffolk University in Boston

Harvard

MIT

IBM

Inter-American Development Bank

Article: One of the Largest Experiments ever Conducted in Higher Education and Lifelong Learning Happened on edX. Here is what they Learned.

Inside Track

 

Listen to this episode and explore: 

Childhood: discovering the world through a magnifying glass and a microscope (4:52)

University: studying communication to understand and democratize access to information (6:57)

Nina’s PhD thesis and the most critical learnings during that time (10:02)

How Nina decided to become a teacher (13:37)

Leaving her tenured career behind to make a bigger impact on education (17:26)

How she got to join edX in 2015 (20:50)

The importance of having experience in the system you want to disrupt (24:01)

edX’s mission: increasing access to education (24:57)

Who are the students of edX? (26:47)

The important of the edX partner network (27:42)

Best practices for delivering online education at scale (28:35)

The challenge of fostering team-based learning in an online environment at scale (34:28)

Creating more opportunities for asynchronous online learning to increase accessibility (36:33)

How edX measures learning outcomes (38:36)

How social accountability within small groups helps enhance learning outcomes (40:12)

Nina’s thoughts on hybrid flipped and other blended programs (42:32)

edX’s new offerings since the beginning of the pandemic (45:49)

Upskilling and reskilling to further evolve our career amid the pandemic (47:54)

edX’s micro-bachelors programs that empower learners to design their learning journey (51:48)

Supporting lifelong, self-directed learning through personal success coaches (57:36)

The impact of the recent online developments on education, teaching and learning (58:46)

What Nina wants to leave her mark on during her lifetime (1:00:36)