adulteducation

Cindy Stover used to say her engaging style, appealing PowerPoints, dynamic videos, and great jokes made her feel like a workshop rockstar! We share her reflections on how Dialogue Education™ led to her “aha moment” about the importance of seeing your learners as rockstars too. Listen for tips on moving from a teaching-centered to a learning-centered approach in your learning events.

For more tips, read Cindy’s full blog: Confessions of a Former Workshop Rockstar.

Cindy Stover is a Justice Mobilizer for the Christian Reformed Church in Canada where she works to help people understand their call to enact justice and mercy in every area of their lives, from how they shop, to how they talk to their neighbours, to how their communities respond to the most vulnerable.

For more information on "the 3C Model," check out our episode with Jeanette Romkema and Andrew Van Liew! 

Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!

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This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. You can learn more about GLP at our website, as well as check out Greg's work and services!  

Theme music: 'Pretty Face' by Una Walkenhorst. You can hear more of Una's music at her website!

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Paulo Freire framed education as a pathway to liberation in his seminal work, “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.” His work has influenced generations of educators, including GLP Founder, Dr. Jane Vella. In this episode we talk with Robb Davis of California and Alex Ciconello of Brazil – two long-term Dialogue Education™ practitioners who hold the legacy of Freire’s principles dear to heart. They share stories of how this revolutionary approach to education is still alive today around the world, from city governments to grassroots social justice movements.

Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!

You can find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, virtually anywhere podcasts are found!

This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. You can learn more about GLP at our website, as well as check out Greg's work and services!  

Theme music: 'Pretty Face' by Una Walkenhorst. You can hear more of Una's music at her website!

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GLP Founder Dr. Jane Vella joins us to read a passage from a book that has stuck with her through the years: The Art of Changing the Brain by James Zull. We’ve talked a lot about the principle of “Safety” this season and its importance to learning. In this episode we reflect with Jane on the biology behind this core principle as she reads a section on “The Amygdala and the Teacher."

Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!

You can find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, virtually anywhere podcasts are found!

This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. You can learn more about GLP at our website, as well as check out Greg's work and services!  

Theme music: 'Pretty Face' by Una Walkenhorst. You can hear more of Una's music at her website!

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Guests Jeanette Romkema and Andrea Van Liew share how the 3C Model – Connecting to Content, Connecting to Self and Connecting to Others – is crucial to engaging the whole person in a virtual setting. They share their recent revelations with clients about the surprising benefits of shifting to remote meetings and trainings – including increased connections and equalized power among those in the virtual room.

Learn more about the 3C Model. For more tips and resources on connecting virtually, check out our toolkit.

Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!

You can find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, virtually anywhere podcasts are found!

This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. You can learn more about GLP at our website, as well as check out Greg's work and services!  

Theme music: 'Pretty Face' by Una Walkenhorst. You can hear more of Una's music at her website!

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Guest Peter Tate – a member of GLP’s International Certified Network – joins us to share his experience facilitating faiths and cultures trainings in Southall, London. When facilitating change, Peter says “the outcome is not guaranteed” – but combining a blended approach with powerful questions enabled him to create a safe holding environment for transformative learning.

Warning for some parents: powerful questions about Santa Claus within!

For more, read Peter Tate’s blog: Digital Learning + Powerful Questions

For a deeper dive on “threshold concepts” and “troublesome knowledge”, Peter Tate recommends checking out this presentation by Ray Land – one of the instigators in this area – and Crossing the Threshold by Mark Enser.

Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!

You can find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, virtually anywhere podcasts are found!

This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. You can learn more about GLP at our website, as well as check out Greg's work and services!  

Theme music: 'Pretty Face' by Una Walkenhorst. You can hear more of Una's music at her website!

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Great leaders elevate organizations and communities, while simultaneously giving back. Join President of Chalmers Insurance Group, Steve Cote, as he interviews local leaders who champion important causes in their community. Whether you own a company or support a local passion project, this is the podcast for you.  

Today we hear from George Wiese, Executive Director of Mountain Top Music Center: about being raised in a family of serious amateur musicians; how Mountain Top Music Center gives back to their community; how they are expanding adult learner enrollment; and the story behind the history Majestic Theater as the school's new home. 

Inspired by From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces (Arao & Clemens, 2013) – we reflect on the need to address courage and bravery when facilitating learning, especially when in dialogue on complex social justice issues.

Reflections based on a blog by Andrea Van Liew: Courage and Bravery in Addition to Safety and Respect.

Read From Safe Spaces to Brave Spaces by Brian Arao & Kristi Clemens.

Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!

You can find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, virtually anywhere podcasts are found!

This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. You can learn more about GLP at our website, as well as check out Greg's work and services!  

Theme music: 'Pretty Face' by Una Walkenhorst. You can hear more of Una's music at her website!

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Dr. Jane Vella, the founder of Global Learning Partners, shares how her journey as an international teacher brought to life the core principles of adult learning that we now call Dialogue Education. She reflects on how the approach has evolved through praxis and explores a vision for the future of learning-centered approaches in the quest for peace.

Follow us on Twitter @GLPconsultants for the latest updates about the show and resources available for businesses and individuals alike. You can also find us on Instagram @GlobalLearningPartners, Facebook, and LinkedIn!

You can find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, virtually anywhere podcasts are found!

This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. You can learn more about GLP at our website, as well as check out Greg's work and services!  

Theme music: 'Pretty Face' by Una Walkenhorst. You can hear more of Una's music at her website!

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Welcome to Shift the Power! Start here to learn all about the show before diving into the topics with our hosts and guests.

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You can find the show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, virtually anywhere podcasts are found!

This show is produced by Global Learning Partners and Greg Tilton JR. You can learn more about GLP at our website, as well as check out Greg's work and services! 

Theme music: 'Pretty Face' by Una Walkenhorst. You can hear more of Una's music at her website!

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Gamification designs for learning should use the full potential of feedback rules and feedback loops for engagement. Feedback is a key aspect in game design, not just to direct behavior, but also to give discernable cues to the players on their performance and aspects to improve. A good gamification design knows how to nudge behavior, but a great gamification design creates meaningful learning cycles that engage through the use of multiple feedback rules. These feedback systems can create loops that accrue power or knowledge and that can relate to meaningful rewards or game outcomes. Learning how to design this feedback loop improves the learning curve of your players in a meaningful way.

About our guest:

Javier Velasquez studied Literature and a Master's in Literature at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. His professional studies helped him understand how to analyze media in a systemic way, as his main concerns were interdisciplinary studies. Since 2012 he shifted towards game design and founded a board game publisher, Azahar Games. In 2013 he assisted the GSummit and started making research on game design and gamification. Alongside his sister, Ana María Velasquez, a PhD in Human Development and Motivation, they started working on a Gamification framework (BEM) that used the idea of feedback and intrinsic motivation in its core. This framework has been validated in different fields, like innovation, human resources, loyalty campaigns, and specially in education, which is a big part of their intrinsic motivation. Javier sees Gamification not as a tool of design, but as a field with paradigms and objects of study that go beyond the use of standardized mechanics.  

The Gamification Quest Podcast Host is Monica Cornetti, President of Sententia, Inc. (www.SententiaGamification.com) and GameMaster of GamiCon - The Annual International Conference for the Gamification of Learning (www.GamiCon.us). Connect with Monica on LinkedIn.

Why is a well crafted player journey such an essential part of gamified instruction?  Bernardo is joining us today to promote his workshop that he will be giving at Gamicon 2020 about player journey creation.  Learn how a well crafted player journey will reward mastery, as well as how critical it is to balance an extrinsic rewards system.  Should everyone get a trophy? 

About our guest: Bernardo is a gamification expert, trainer, and international speaker with a specialty in Web and UX design/development.  He was inspired to create the BLUErabbit educational platform by his own negative experiences as a student and a belief that every learner in the world deserves better.  His mission is to transform education because he believes that it is overdue for an evolution.  "Passing a class isn't learning"

The Gamification Quest Podcast Host is Monica Cornetti, President of Sententia, Inc. (www.SententiaGamification.com) and GameMaster of GamiCon - The Annual International Conference for the Gamification of Learning (www.GamiCon.us). Connect with Monica on LinkedIn.

An art history course developed for Alverno College based on a challenge to save art works of five ancient cultures from oblivion and thereby save the memory of those cultures. 

About Our Guest:  Marilyn Zwissler started out as a product trainer, found out it was a profession, and is now a performance improvement professional. Along the way, she earned her Master’s Degree in Organizational Development and is a certified Learning and Development Professional (CPLP). Games and how people learn through experience has always intrigued her. Last year she graduated from Sententia’s Journeyman program and started an online course program for Alverno College based on a game concept. She calls her course The Great Art Quest.

The Gamification Quest Podcast Host is Monica Cornetti, President of Sententia, Inc. (www.SententiaGamification.com) and GameMaster of GamiCon - The Annual International Conference for the Gamification of Learning (www.GamiCon.us). Connect with Monica on LinkedIn.

Gamicon head judge Jean Marrapodi walks us through the Gamicon Project Throwdown competition, the creation of a comprehensive rubric for that competition, and the difference that it made. 

We explore questions like "how should instructional designers be judged?", "Who should be doing the judging?", and "What makes gamified learning objectively good?".  

About our guest: Jean is a pioneering problem solver. With 20+ years’ experience in corporate training in retail, banking, print, non-profits and healthcare, followed by 5 in higher education, she worked to bring innovation to each organization, shifting paradigms and transforming learning methodologies. In her current role at MassMutual, she works with financial literacy education for the Society of Grownups. Additionally, she does consulting as the Chief Learning Architect at Applestar Productions, providing targeted E-learning and custom workshops for her clients. Jean led the award-winning eLearning team at New England College of Business, where she continues to teach in the graduate programs. In 2016, she was honored to be named a Guild Master by the eLearning Guild.

Jean has a PhD in Adult Education, a Masters Degree in Online Instructional Design and is a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance, ATD’s highest credential, and most recently, received the prestigious Sententia Gamification Level 3 Master Craftsman designation. She is a frequent conference presenter, having presented workshops in training, instructional design, E-learning and low literacy learning at the international, national, regional levels. She lives outside of Boston with three cats and a persnickity pooch named Arthur.

The Gamification Quest Podcast Host is Monica Cornetti, President of Sententia, Inc. (www.SententiaGamification.com) and GameMaster of GamiCon - The Annual International Conference for the Gamification of Learning (www.GamiCon.us). Connect with Monica on LinkedIn.

What's in this episode?

This week’s episode is with Daniel Baril, Institute for Lifelong Learning at UNESCO learning. We chat about institutions forced to become agile in the age of coronavirus plus individual or collective approaches to lifelong learning and moving to targeted education intervention. Plus, guest messages from ISTE, UFI Voctech Trust, EverFi, and OpenClassrooms, and insights on distance learning via the “application culture” of China.

Thank you Ufi Voctech Trust for supporting this series and vocational skills development in the UK, through their investments and grants in vocational technology. You can check out their work here.

You can follow the series conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech

Enjoy!

People

• Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech
• Daniel Baril, Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL), UNESCO, and Director-General of the Canadian Institute for Cooperation in Adult Education (ICAE) | Twitter: @DanielBarilx
• Listener Contributors:
• • Jon Chapman, Co-Founder and President for Global Partnerships, EverFi | Twitter: @EVERFI
  • Pierre Dubuc, Co-founder and CEO, Open Classrooms | Twitter: @p_dubuc

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This episode features part of a conversation with Dr. Nan Travers, Director, Center for Leadership in Credentialing Learning (CL2) SUNY Empire State College. Nan discussed some of her work with frameworks for adult learning competencies and the importance of self-assessment.