Leaders & Legends of Online Learning

Oct 25 2024 25 ep. 30 mins 27
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Leaders & Legends of Online Learning interviews the world's leading online education theorists and practitioners. Dedicated to the experts. Check out our website for more on each guest: http://onlinelearninglegends.com

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103 Dr Catherine Cronin

Oct 25 2024 28 mins  
Dr Catherine Cronin is an independent scholar and critical advocate of open education, based in Ireland. Her work focuses on critical and social justice approaches in digital, open and higher education, including most recently co-editing Higher education for good: Teaching and learning futures with Professor Laura Czerniewicz.

102 George Ubachs

Oct 03 2024 25 mins  
George Ubachs is Managing Director of EADTU, the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, responsible for significant scholarship and insight related to innovation in online and distance teaching. The EADTU’s wide volume of contemporary reports and practice insights are freely available to the global community. George is also the ICDE Focal Point on Quality for Eur

101 Professor João Mattar

Sep 05 2024 28 mins  
Professor João Mattar is a specialist in distance education with the Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. João has over 75 publications across a broad range of subject areas in education, including games in education and connectivism. He is a Member of the International Council of Advisors of the UNESCO Chair in Distance Education (CUED) at the National Universi

100 Dr Mark Nichols

Aug 07 2024 30 mins  
Dr Mark Nichols is Executive Director of Learning Design & Development at Open Polytechnic in New Zealand. He is current President of ICDE, and a Commonwealth of Learning Chair. Mark also pioneered this podcast, with the highly able assistance of Nev Ellington, who he met at the Open University. Mark’s most recent scholarship is in the areas of terminology and delivery modes. He

099 Professor Charlotte Gunawardena

Jun 26 2024 30 mins  
Professor Charlotte Gunawardena is Distinguished Professor of Distance Education and Instructional Technology with the University of New Mexico. Lani has published and presented on distance education for over 25 years and has over 100 publications to her credit. She is currently researching the sociocultural context of digital learning environments and social presence theory, exami

098 Dr Taskeen Adam

Jun 13 2024 29 mins  
Dr Taskeen Adam is Co-Director at Open Development & Education – a multicultural team dedicated to open education developments around the world. Taskeen’s research highlights that historical injustices, cultural imposition, and economic dependence continue to play a pivotal role in education and she seeks to address cultural-epistemic injustices exacerbated through educational

097 Dr Ratna Selvaratnam

May 22 2024 27 mins  
Dr Ratna Selvaratnam is Manager of Learning Technologies & Innovation at Edith Cowan University (ECU), Australia. Ratna is a Design Champion with ECU’s University of the Future project, she has recent forward-facing publications in the areas of micro-credentials and governance of artificial intelligence, and is on the ACODE (Australasian Council for Open and Digital Education) Ex

096 Dr Gabi Witthaus

Apr 25 2024 28 mins  
Dr Gabi Witthaus is a Research Fellow at University College London specialising in education in contexts of mass displacement, and Senior Digital Education Developer with the University of Birmingham. Gabi is a keen advocate of open education resources and widening participation to higher education. Interview: https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/1728059/c1e-pgwvs5548n

095 Emeritus Professor Junhong Xiao

Apr 10 2024 31 mins  
Junhong Xiao is Emeritus Professor at the Open University of Shantou in China. His current research interests cover various aspects of open, distance and digital education. His international publications include a major contribution to the Springer Handbook of Open, Digital, and Distance Education, and many contemporary themes of online learning. Interview: https://episodes.castos.

094 Professor Paul Levinson

Feb 29 2024 33 mins  
Paul Levinson, PhD, is a pioneer of online education, still teaching classes in person and via Zoom as a Professor at Fordham University in New York City, after nearly 50 years in university classrooms, and online classes in the 1980s at Connected Education which he co-founded with his wife Tina Vozick. Paul is a dedicated pedagogue, novelist, and singer/songwriter, whose advocacy