In Episode #227, the Silver Lining for Learning Co-hosts reflect on the transformative (and not so transformative) changes in education of the past five years. They will do such pondering with two long-time friends of SLL, David Wiley, one of the founders of the field of open educational resources and innovator in the field of virtual education who presently is Chief Academic Officer at Lumen Learning and Lin Lin Lipsmeyer from Southern Methodist University who researches in the fields of learning sciences, STEM education, artificial intelligence, and innovative and advanced learning technologies. Lin will discuss her new role as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Director/Officer on an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment.

David Wiley is the Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning. His work and research happen is at the intersection of open educational resources, generative AI, learning analytics, continuous improvement, and professional development. he's one of the founders of the open educational resources (OER) movement. David is also adjunct faculty in Brigham Young University's graduate program in Instructional Psychology and Technology where he was previously a tenured Associate Professor, and Director of The Brad D. Smith Student Incubator in the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Marshall University.

As an academic, he's been fortunate to receive several recognitions for his work, including an National Science Foundation CAREER grant and appointments as a Nonresident Fellow in the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a Peery Social Entrepreneurship Research Fellow in the BYU Marriott School of Business, and a Shuttleworth Fellow. As a social entrepreneur, David has founded or co-founded numerous entities including Lumen Learning, Degreed, and Mountain Heights Academy, and was named an Ashoka Fellow. In 2009, Fast Company named me one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. In my professional community, he was Education Fellow at Creative Commons from 2013 - 2016 and one of the original authors of the CC Certificate Program, as well as President of the international Association for Educational Communications and Technology from 2022 - 2023.

David Wiley began my teaching career in 1996 as adjunct faculty at Ashland Community College in Kentucky where I taught Introduction to E-Business. He then taught Advanced Web Techniques as an adjunct in Marshall University's Computer Science Department. And then Educational Psychology at Brigham Young University as a graduate student. Next, David held tenure-track faculty appointments at Utah State University and Brigham Young University, where he taught courses in instructional design, grant writing, open education, social entrepreneurship, social media in education, and other subjects. As an adjunct, he most recently taught IPT 515R, Generative AI for Instructional Designers, at BYU and ENT200h, The Brad D. Smith Student Incubator, at Marshall University during 2024. Find out more about David Wiley at his homepage: https://davidwiley.org/ or contact him directly at: david.wiley@gmail.com.

Lin Lin Lipsmeyer is a Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Simmons School of Education & Human Development, Southern Methodist University (SMU, https://www.smu.edu/simmons/about-us/directory/teaching-learning/lipsmeyer). Currently, Dr. Lipsmeyer is serving as a National Science Foundation (NSF) Program Director/Officer on an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment. Lin earned her Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree in Instructional Technology and Media from Teachers College Columbia University. Lin’s interdisciplinary research spans between learning sciences, STEM education, artificial intelligence, and innovative technologies. She has co-edited 9 books and reports, authored or co-authored over a hundred refereed journal articles and book chapters, and delivered more than a hundred presentations at national and international conferences. Dr. Lipsmeyer has also served as PI or Co-PI on multiple grants. Her leadership roles include department chair, center director, conference president, and program chair. From 2018 to 2024, Lin was the Development Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D), one of the top 20 educational research journals. Her SMU homepage is at: https://www.smu.edu/simmons/about-us/directory/teaching-learning/lipsmeyer and her LinkedIn page is at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lin-lin-professor/. She can be contacted at: llipsmeyer@smu.edu