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  • Measure What Matters - Value What's Valuable!

    Measure What Matters - Value What's Valuable!
    2025/07/08
    Measure What Matters, Value What’s Valuable.

    In this episode, I’m challenging the way we define what’s important in education. Yes, subject matter still matters—but not in the traditional, one-size-fits-all way we’re used to. We’re talking about competency-based learning, personalized pathways, and deeper DEDI alignment. We’re also asking: are we equipping learners with the right technical skills—and, more importantly, the essential human capacities that will help them thrive in complex, changing environments?

    This week, I’m unpacking:
    ✔️ What it means to truly align learning with real-world relevance
    ✔️ Why technical aptitudes must be tailored to your learners’ realities
    ✔️ How human strengths like empathy, communication, and adaptability are the real foundation of future-ready education

    Education systems only stay relevant if we measure what really matters. Let’s talk about how to do that—on purpose.
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    13 分
  • Lecturers are Out - Learning Designers are IN!

    Lecturers are Out - Learning Designers are IN!
    2025/06/24
    Enough with the Lecturer—It’s Time for the Learning Designer.

    This week, I’m digging into a major identity shift happening in education—one that isn’t easy, but absolutely necessary. Most of us were trained to be subject matter experts first and educators second. But in today’s learning environments, especially in secondary, higher ed, and adult learning, that model just doesn’t hold up.

    In this episode, I’m unpacking:
    ✔️ Why shifting from “lecturer” to “learning designer” matters
    ✔️ What it really means to be a facilitator, co-learner, and coach
    ✔️ How to design intentional, skill-based learning experiences that empower students to take ownership

    Teaching isn’t about transferring information—it’s about crafting spaces for exploration, iteration, and mastery. This shift is uncomfortable, but it’s also where real impact begins.

    🎙️ Listen wherever you find your podcasts, or at my YouTube channel!
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    13 分
  • AI Will NOT Replace Educators!

    AI Will NOT Replace Educators!
    2025/06/17
    AI Will NOT Replace Educators!

    This week, I’m cutting through the noise. AI isn’t here to take our jobs—but it is here to change how we define success in education, and that should have us all paying attention!

    In this episode, I’m sharing why we need to:

    ✔️ Stop the fearmongering
    ✔️ Start planning with intention
    ✔️ Focus on assessment as the true game-changer

    Educators are more essential than ever, but our roles are evolving—and how we assess will determine our future relevance. I believe we can lead this shift, not be sidelined by it.
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    23 分
  • The Revolution Isn't Coming... It's Here!

    The Revolution Isn't Coming... It's Here!
    2025/06/03
    Welcome to a new era in the Education Revolution. In this kickoff episode, I'm naming what many of us have felt for years: education isn’t waiting for transformation, it’s already experiencing it. From the rise of AI and the reimagining of assessment, to the shift toward human capacity-building and the collapse of outdated teaching models, the revolution is no longer on the horizon—it’s at our doorstep.

    This year, I'll be unpacking 15 revolutionary ideas that are challenging the status quo and reshaping how we design, deliver, and experience learning. In this opening episode, I set the stage for what’s to come, invite you to question what you’ve always done, and help you start building the future now, one bold idea at a time!

    So whether you're an educator, designer, strategist, or lifelong learner, this podcast is your invitation to not just witness the revolution, but to join it. Subscribe, share, and let’s build the future of education, together!
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    20 分
  • Geneveieve Maheux-Pelletier - Structuring the Chaos of Education Through Community & Dialogue

    Geneveieve Maheux-Pelletier - Structuring the Chaos of Education Through Community & Dialogue
    2024/10/14
    Dr. Maheux-Pelletier sees connection at the heart of her practice. Her professional role is all about connecting with colleagues to grow a common understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing the teaching and learning profession in higher education. The hope is that then together, we can then co-create strategic ways of adapting, experimenting with, and transforming the teaching practice to reflect and influence the changing landscape of higher education. Outside of work, she is also a self-described kick-ass mom.

    As an experienced educational leader with a comprehensive understanding of university culture, Genevieve has played multiple roles within academia in the last 20 years - a professor, an undergraduate program director, an educational developer, and a scholar-researcher of teaching and learning. She has extensive teaching experience from the Universities in Canada, America, and Europe. Her research in the last eight years has focused on experiential teaching and learning in higher education and educational development and leadership, and prior to that her published work was in the field of discourse and conversation analysis.

    Dr. Maheux-Pelletier is an expert in the process of strategic, culture shifts within often very challenging public higher education environments. Join me in welcoming her to the education revolution, for a powerful discussion on key considerations we can all make as we work together to bring about meaningful change in our systems of education.
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    56 分
  • Cristi Ford - Change Management Pathways to Significant, Deep Learning

    Cristi Ford - Change Management Pathways to Significant, Deep Learning
    2024/09/30
    Dr. Cristi Ford serves as the Vice President of Academic Affairs at Desire to Learn, otherwise known as D2L, she brings more than two decades of cumulative experience in Higher Ed., secondary education project management, program evaluation, training and student services to her role. In this role, she offers thought leadership and direction to the academic affairs unit of the organization.

    Her previous roles have allowed her to have impact in education from secondary all the way through to Higher Ed. settings as well as on the international landscape. Her reach has allowed her to focus on building online education in the US and on the African continent. Dr. Ford was selected by the online learning consortium as the 2022 OLC fellow, which is the highest professional distinction offered by the association. She is a tireless advocate for quality online education, where she has leveraged her passion and expertise in many realms in the education space.

    She's known for utilizing her leadership in extraordinary ways to help institutions build capacity and expand online programming through effective faculty development, instructional design and pedagogical practices. Cristi’s passion and professional expertise are a dynamic combination folks, something that comes across loud and clear during this exciting conversation. I am very grateful to welcome Dr. Christi Ford to the Education Revolution.
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    54 分
  • Helen Brennagh - Putting the Human Back in Tech Support

    Helen Brennagh - Putting the Human Back in Tech Support
    2024/09/16
    As assistant manager of learning technology services at York University, Helen has over 20 years of experience supporting faculty members as they navigate an increasingly digital reality. She has seen it all folks, from the origins of the modern learning management system to supporting huge institutions in what feels like a constantly changing and evolving landscape of procuring, installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and upgrading different software and hardware.

    Helen is skilled in instructional design and the creation of e-learning solutions with a background in software development. Her background in software engineering allows her to be able to understand what's possible with technology, however that's not her true passion, that my friends is something much simpler and more human – helping people figure out how to do the things they want or need to do, whether that's making tech more friendly for them, enhancing the process of them using what already exists, or holding their literal or metaphorical hand as they navigate the frustrations of tech troubleshooting.

    Helen's focus is on building relationships and helping people in turn to build relationships with tools and technology. Helen's passion and professional expertise are matched only by her incredible insights on how to improve the support structures around technology. These are powerful takeaways everyone and they have the potential the positively inform system change in Higher Ed., so I'm super excited to welcome Helen to the Education Revolution.
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    58 分
  • Manzi Nicholas Ntaganzwa - Setting Yourself Up for Success as a Student in Higher Ed.

    Manzi Nicholas Ntaganzwa - Setting Yourself Up for Success as a Student in Higher Ed.
    2024/09/02
    Manzi is a recent graduate from York university's undergraduate communications and media studies program who has already garnered multiple work experiences in both the public and private sectors. A native of Rwanda, Manzi integrates his deep connection to the power of community into his work here in Canada, with a deep interest in how we communicate as human beings and how we can leverage technology and imagery to share information and inspire behavior. Manzi is hoping to work in innovative industries that promote meaningful collaboration and looks to contribute to the important projects related to solving some of today's biggest problems.

    Manzi is not only incredibly intelligent and passionate about his field of marketing and Comms, but he's also not afraid to adapt especially when it comes to making the most of a constantly evolving digital landscape. Whether it's exploring AI or considering the impact of handheld digital devices on the malleable minds of his generation, Mr. Ntaganzwa’s interest in observing and understanding human behavior has garnered some incredible insights, at a very young age.

    I'm super excited to share some of those insights and the powerful conversation we had today on The Education Revolution.
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    49 分