Season 2

This week we put big publishers on the burner. Things get a little heated as we let'm have it. Yes, they have their redeeming ele…

We are excited to share our interview with Stevie Frank for this week's investigation into HiTech. Stevie is a new friend from Tw…

Will and Josh take on tutoring! What's its purpose in education and how do we cultivate it online learning. We think this will be…

Welcome to The Roastery: a place where we load up a topic and roast it! That's right, the usual niceties are put to the side, and…

Let's make it! No, this is not an episode of Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman's " Making It " (though I do recommend watching that).…

Josh and Will beg the question, "does every lesson need an assessment?" If you're nodding along, excellent, join us. If you're li…

We conclude the Robin S. Jeffers Learning Taxonomy Series by doing a panel conversation with Robin. S Jeffers herself and Dr. Jus…

Four for more! We get into our last solo conversation in the Robin S. Jeffers Learning Taxonomy Series. Kirkpatrick's Taxonomy is…

Episode three in the Robin S. Jeffers Learning Taxonomy Series brings us Webb's Depths of Knowledge. The DOK taxonomy provides us…

Episode two in the Robin S. Jeffers Learning Taxonomy Series (it's just a joke folks: this is not a memorial plaque) takes us to …

We start off the Robin S. Jeffers Learning Taxonomy Series by investigating Bloom's Taxonomy. This foray starts with a few defini…

Josh and Will wrap the series up solo as they review several LinkedIn Learning courses. Their insights pull from years of experie…

Our Learning Designers React series continues with Susannah Simmons joining us to debrief several assignment prompts. This conver…

Our Learning Designers React series starts off with Will, Josh, and their friend Lynée reacting to this video : a Wendy's cold dr…

Robin joins us again to talk learning taxonomies: Bloom's, Fink's, Webb's and more! If you're unfamiliar or just like nerding out…

What is college good for? We open up the conversation on whether college and academia should be for learning or workforce develop…

More house metaphors in this episode - what can we say? We like metaphors! Join us as we learn what about accessibility, why it's…

Metaphors galore in this episode: we talk about designing content for your students in an affective and clear method. User Experi…

Many elements of the physical classroom translate to the virtual learning environment: but does absence? Can a student be tardy t…

Some strong opinions and hot takes in bound! Josh and Will sink their teeth into the conversation on plagiarism, cheating, and di…

Continuing the conversation on the LMS. Josh and Will have worked in this field for quite some time, so it's no surprise that the…

Will makes his best effort to put his tinfoil hat away, but Josh eggs him on. Is anything new? We talk about the impact of the LM…

Josh and Will (and their surprise cohost?!) start a conversation off on cognitive dissonance. This topic proves a little fuzzy fo…

This week we chat with Robin Jeffers, one of Josh's colleagues, about Instructional Design: what is it, why, who, what, and all o…

We start a long conversation on a short topic: micro learning! It's a trendy topic and we all engage with it at some level in our…

This week's episode dives deep into discourse development. We highlight the CREATE system created by Dr. Marcela Borge ( Twitter …

Wrapping up our three-part series on game-based learning with breakdown and summary. Josh and Will love video games, so we hope t…

Justin is back to chat games and play with us. While he may be less into the video games than we are, he brings an equal or great…

Back with another series! This time, game-based learning. We plan to dig into the big areas of games and how they play into teach…

Our level of meta knows no bounds. Once more, we pick a topic and go deep down the rabbit hole. In this conversation, we discuss …

Breaking down the concept of Cognitive Load can take some effort. Hopefully, Will and Josh make it a little easier for you this w…

*celebrate* :clapping: Let's go! We are so excited for this episode. Seriously, 50 episodes is no small feat! More importantly, w…

Josh and Will conclude the Accelerated Learning Series with a debrief and review. Many thanks to Justin, Casey, and Alex for join…

For our third installment, we catch up with Alex Wissler to talk about what it would take for him to start another degree. This c…

Episode two in our series on Accelerated Learning programs finds us chatting with Will's sister-in-law, Casey Bonner, about what …

This episode starts our series on Accelerated Learning programs. Josh and Will sit down with Justin Harbin, Ed.D. , to talk about…

Josh and Will discuss whether or not we should use portfolios in education. It's a common practice, but does it have the pedagogi…

We sit down with Chris Morris , Lead 3D Artist at Major Mega , to talk about VR for Education. If you're unfamiliar with this ide…

All of us use tests; all of us have taken a test at some point in our lives. We beg the question, what would it look like to actu…

What should teacher professional development look like? Most of us have had experience the full gamut on this one: bad training s…

Should we standardize online courses? This conversation is a fun ride of ups and downs. Josh and Will have been wrestling with th…

We finally tackle the podcasting for education. That is, we discuss how you can use podcasting to create content for your student…

Our first interview episode of Season 2 is here. In this episode, Josh and Will connect with Dave Nelson at Equity Maps . If you'…

Will and Josh tackle the tricky idea about proctoring software: is it good or not? Should we use it? This conversation is fun and…

Episode 2 of Season 2 brings us an exhilarating conversation with our good friend and colleague, Glen Irvin. Glen is a bigger ner…

We're back! Season 2 is spinning up with the question, should we use Teachers Pay Teachers? This conversation is a little spicier…