The Edtech Podcast

What's in this episode? We look at the future of work experiment that is 2020 in this investor special, and interrogate some of the forecasts for the future of work now that many of them have come true.  Our guests this week are both investors coming at the conversation from two very different angles. One funds and supports ambitious ideas for using technology to improve the lives of low wage workers or 'workertech', whilst the other is General Partner at an early-stage fund investing in workplace technology companies that have a strategy to sell to and through employers. Enjoy the episode. It's a great listen! You can follow the conversation using #voctechpodcast and #voctech.  People Cansu Deniz Bayrak, Senior Partner, Bethnal Green Ventures | Twitter: @cansudb Allison Baum, General Partner, SemperVirens Venture Capital | Twitter: @ABaumGates Sophie Bailey, Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech   Show Notes and References   Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes.  Tell us your story We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via. twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.

Welcome to the latest episode of the GLOBAL edition of our What Matters in Edtech Series, our podcast collaboration with Bett. This podcast series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.  Thank you to Bett for supporting this series and to Pearson for supporting this episode. What's in this episode?   In this episode looking at skills, we are in conversation with an amazing 19-year-old key worker on her experience of 2020, an SVP on understanding more about how vocational learning pathways are adapting to a fast-shifting employment landscape, and a Principal and CEO on the education sector moving forward on cultivating essential skills. We will be asking: Which skills are in demand? How are people reskilling? How did key workers in the pandemic train for this moment and how can adaptability and resilience be developed from an early age? And, what changes in assessment and qualifications and support will we see in reaction to our new societal needs?   Plus, there are some great book recommendations and the usual anecdotes, allegories and insights. Follow the conversation, share and comment using #edtechpod and #Bett2021. People Cindy Rampersaud, Senior Vice President, Pearson BTEC and Apprenticeship | Twitter: @RampersaudCindy Mark Steed, Principal and CEO, Kellett School | Twitter: @independenthead Naomi Dardai, Health Care Assistant at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, soon to be a Trainee Nursing Associate. Previously studied a BTEC in Health and Social Care at City College Norwich Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech   Show Notes and References   You can find links to any references from the episode in our show notes: https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast. Tell us your story We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.

What's in this episode? In this episode, we seek to explore how the student experience is being created and supported in 2020 at our Higher Education institutions. In conversation with leaders and students from across EMEA and the U.S, we ask; How is the University experience stacking up vs. student expectations?  How are Universities adapting to support careers readiness in 2020? How are students co-creating the student experience they want to see? And, What can Universities do more of? You can follow the conversation using #EdtechEdge and #edtechpod. People Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech Kate Daubney, Head of King's Careers & Employability and soon to be the new Director of The Careers Group, University of London | Twitter: @careerampersand Victoria Wade, Head of College Careers Service - Education Consultancy, The Careers Group, across the University of London | Twitter: @CareersGroup Navneet Johal, Director, Industry Solutions, Higher Education, Salesforce.Org | Twitter: @NavneetJohal1 Rex Béchu, ESCP Paris master's student, Business. University of Sheffield, Politics and IR Graduate (1st). Former Chair of the Student Advisory Group for the UK Council for International Student Affairs | Twitter: @rexbechu Nebu George, Chair, Student Advisory Group for the UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) and PhD Researcher in Geochemical Archaeology at Bangor University, Wales | Twitter: @ArchaeoGeorge Farshida Zafar, Director, ErasmusX at Erasmus University Rotterdam | Twitter: @erasmusuni Carla Aerts, EdTech and Learning Science versatilist and EdTech thought leader. Also the founder of Refracted! | Twitter:  @underthebanyan Show Notes and References   Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes  Tell us your story We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram. 

What's in this episode? In this episode we throwback to a past recording chatting about the power of role-play and simulation technology in hostile environment training and international development. This episode was recorded at the start of 2020 in pre-COVID times so you will also hear an update from one of our guests, Mike Todd, reflecting on what has changed since our recording. Enjoy! People Mike Todd, CEO, Near Life | Twitter: @NearLifeTech  Kathy Relleen Evans, Director, Development Projects and Innovation Unit - DPIU, Norwegian Refugee Council | Twitter: @RelleenEvans, @NRC_Norway Sophie Bailey, Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech   Show Notes and References   Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes.  Tell us your story We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via. twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.

Welcome to the latest episode of the GLOBAL edition of our What Matters in Edtech Series, our podcast collaboration with Bett. This podcast series is all about the things that matter in education, and how and when tech might help.  A big shout out to Bett for supporting this series, to Aruba for supporting this episode. What's in this episode? Innovation can sometimes feel esoteric. Yet, without it where would we be? Endlessly plodding perhaps…  In this episode, we are talking innovation with guests from Dubai, Brazil, Singapore and the U.K. Expect ideas on how to build the team around you to take new ideas forward, how to create the space for innovation, and ways to measure impact, including, "how much time have I saved?"  You can follow the conversation using #edtechpod and #Bett2021. People Luciano Meira, Co-founder, Joy Street + UFPE Professor  | Twitter: @luciano_meira Dr Samson Tan, Head, Centre for Innovation in Learning, National Institute of Education, Singapore Raya Bidshahri, Founder & CEO, Awecademy | Twitter: @raya_bid Simon Wilson, CTO, UK and Ireland, Aruba | Twitter: @siwilson2000 Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech   Show Notes and References   You can find links to any references from the episode in our show notes: https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast. Tell us your story We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.

What's in this episode? This week's bonus episode is a LIVE recording featuring a discussion I hosted at the FROG20 conference in August with two school leaders talking about how they kept calm and carried on during 2020. Stay listening in if you're facing the rest of 2020 and feeling like you need a boost or some extra ideas on how to manage the madness. People Sophie Bailey, Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech Nick House, Headteacher at Greenshaw High School | Twitter: @GreenshawHigh Kate Wragg, Deputy Headteacher at Education and Leadership Trust, and Teacher of Computing and (Cross Trust lead on E-learning and E-safety) | Twitter: @MrsKateWragg Show Notes and References   Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes.  Tell us your story We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via. twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.

What's in this episode? COVID-19 has had a huge impact on the student experience. This first episode in the second season of our "The Edge" series, supported by Salesforce.Org, is all about the campus reopening and how to best support both the institution and students during this time. Four guests share ideas around contact tracing, wellbeing, hybrid teaching and learning, and innovative student experience. Expect synchronous student cooking classes with a Michelin star chef, musings on student numbers and a changed admissions landscape, and technology investments made to support students and faculty long-term.  You can follow the conversation using #EdtechEdge and #edtechpod. People Sophie Bailey is the Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech Dr Ghazwa Alwani-Starr, Pro Vice-Chancellor Strategy, Planning and Partnerships and Director of Property, University of London | Twitter: @AlwaniStarrG Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño, President of IE University, Spain | Twitter: @SantiagoIniguez Geshri Gunasekera, Senior Director for Institute Success, salesforce.org | Twitter: @EdtechGeshri Dhawal Shah, Founder and CEO, Class Central | Twitter: @dhawalhshah Show Notes and References   Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes  Tell us your story We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram. 

A peek into our new HigherEd series, with Salesforce.Org. This series takes a fresh look at higher education and digital transformation. Clips used in this trailer to "set the scene" of HigherEd in 2020; Iain Harper, Head of Digital, Oxford University Business School, Digital Transformation at the World's Oldest University @ Salesforce Higher Ed Summit  Audio of U.K Student protests over A-Level exam results in 2020, YouTube WHO director-general Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announcing COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020 CBS Boston report, Trump administration reverses policy on international students studying in the U.S, YouTube BBC Newsnight, How are exam results being calculated this year? Clip with Sam Freedman, former Department of Education Advisor  BBC Newsnight, How are exam results being calculated this year? Clip with Deputy Vice-Chancellor Reading University, Professor Parveen Yaqoob July 30th 2020, Arizona State University Weekly Briefing on Campus Reentry plan with University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins Chris Headleand, Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln, on The Edtech Podcast  HEPI & select committee webinars with Michelle Donelan MP, Minister for Universities The Edge: Accelerating Higher Education, is the second season from The Edtech Podcast, supported by Salesforce.org, and exploring the intersection of higher education and digital transformation.  You can follow the conversation using #EdTechEdge and #edtechpod and subscribe by searching for The Edtech Podcast at Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever else you listen. Salesforce.org is the social impact centre of Salesforce focused on partnering with the global community of change-makers. They provide access to powerful technology that empowers change-makers to build a better world. Salesforce.org's Education Cloud gives Higher Education institutions a single, shared view of students, alumni and staff in an integrated CRM platform to create personalised experiences at scale - transforming learner engagements into lifelong relationships. 

What's in this episode? A pre-COVID workplace learning technology chat. In this episode we throwback to a past recording at Reimagine Education in December 2019, where we were in pre-COVID times chatting about the power of workplace learning technology in our Voctech Podcast LIVE session. You will hear about: setting courageous goals going from training to learning culture and, designing your learning day. People Sophie Bailey, Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech Richard Price, Learning Technologies Advisor, NHS Health Education England | Twitter: @RichardPriceUK Jacob Waern, Founder & CEO, EduMe | Twitter: @EduMeSocial Joe Ludlow, Impact Investment Director, Ufi Ventures | Twitter: @joeludlow Catherine Wallwork, Head of Innovation Engagement & Mindset, Deloitte Ventures | Twitter: @catherinewallw1 Show Notes and References   Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes.  Tell us your story We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via. twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.

What's in this episode? The next in our mini-series on the edtech demonstrator programme in England, this time with a focus on back to school and college. Lots of tips on continuity of learning, plus peer to peer and wellbeing support.  Also in this episode, Fergus Bruce of Sublime talking us through this week's guest blog and Caroline Wright of BESA with some events news. And finally, Charlie James of edtech demonstrator college, Basingstoke College of Technology, on from learner to learning technologist and blasted resits.  Bonne Chance listeners!  People Sophie Bailey, Founder and Presenter of The Edtech Podcast | Twitter: @podcastedtech David Maguire, Headteacher, Coupals Primary Academy, Suffolk | Twitter: @CoupalsAcademy Scott Hayden, Digital Innovation Specialist/ Lecturer of Creative Media Production, Basingstoke College of Technology | Twitter: @scottdhayden Paul Edge, Deputy Head Teacher, Ribblesdale High School | Twitter: @Paul_A_Edge Faye Saadieh, Policy and Communications Advisor: EdTech Demonstrator Schools and Colleges, STEM, Digital & EdTech Unit | Twitter: @edtechdemo Listener Contributors: Fergus Bruce, Director of Customer Experience: Education, Sublime | Twitter: @fergusambruce Caroline Wright, Director General, BESA | Twitter: @CJPWright Bonus Audio:   Charlie James, Learning Technologist, Basingstoke College of Technology (BCoT) | Twitter: @CharlieJamess9 Callum Rochester, Student, BCoT | Twitter: @FolksyCash04 Show Notes and References   Check out https://theedtechpodcast.com/edtechpodcast for the full show notes.  Tell us your story We'd love to hear your thoughts. Record a quick free voicemail via speakpipe for inclusion in the next episode. Or you can post your thoughts or follow-on links via. twitter @podcastedtech or via The Edtech Podcast Facebook page or Instagram.