Connie Yowell & Kylie Peppler Talk LRNG

In this episode I'm joined by two special guests and we're
talking about a recent merger that may have gone unnoticed by
many, but to me could be a tiny rumble before a tremendous shift
that could rock education in a lot of ways. Here were some of the
headlines:





New Merger Wants to Create ‘WeWork for Education’ Via
Digital Badges and Mini-Campuses





Next for SNHU: Game-Based Learning and Digital Badges for
Middle Schoolers





Southern New Hampshire University and LRNG Merge to
Deploy Innovative Community-Based Education Strategy in Cities
Across the U.S.


My guests are two critical players leading education reform,
research, and practice in this country.


Dr. Kylie Peppler is an artist by training - Associate Professor
of Learning Sciences at UC Irvine and engages in research that
focuses on the intersection of arts, computational technologies
and interest-driven learning. In addition to serving as the
Director of the Creativity Labs at Irvine, Dr. Peppler is the
Chief Learning Officer at Collective Shift/LRNG, the former lead
of the MacArthur Foundation’s Make-to-Learn initiative, and a
member of the 2016 and 2017 National Educational Technology Plan
Committee, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Peppler
was on the original NSF-sponsored Scratch team during the initial
design and early study of the Scratch platform. Since this time,
she has specialized in studying e-textile design with the LilyPad
Arduino.


Connie Yowell is the visionary and CEO of Collective Shift,
bringing considerable experience from the MacArthur Foundation
where she oversaw a $150 million program on Digital Media and
Learning.


Prior to joining the Foundation, Connie was an Associate
Professor at the University of Illinois, publishing scholarly
work that examines the complex interplay among young people’s
emerging identity, their social context and achievement. Connie
briefly served as Policy Analyst in the U.S. Department of
Education during the Clinton Administration, and has worked
closely with teachers and administrators to develop programs for
youth development.


In 2004, Connie received the Distinguished Fellows Award from the
William T. Grant Foundation, an award to support scholars seeking
to bridge research and practice, under which she worked with the
National Writing Project to develop approaches that integrate web
2.0 technologies into the social practices of teachers. Connie
earned her bachelor’s degree from Yale, and her PhD from Stanford
University.


My thanks to Kylie and Connie for joining. You'll hear a change
in audio on Connie's mic mid-way through the interview...we had
some technical difficulties with our connection, but persevered.
Whether you agree with me that their story could be a taste of
new education paradigms to come, I hope you'll join me in
cheering them on. We need all of the brains we can get iterating
toward a future where learning is accessible, connected, counted
for everyone.


LRNG / SNHU Merger Press Release:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/southern-new-hampshire-university-and-lrng-merge-to-deploy-innovative-community-based-education-strategy-in-cities-across-the-us-300734026.html


Mastery Transcript Consortium: http://mastery.org/


LRNG: https://www.lrng.org/


Souther New Hampshire University: https://www.snhu.edu/


Open Badges: https://openbadges.org/


Walk Out, Walk On - Book by Margaret J. Wheatley and Deborah
Frieze: http://a.co/d/cFUsNUS


EdSurge Says: New Merger Wants to Create ‘WeWork for Education’
Via Digital Badges and Mini-Campuses:
https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-10-23-new-merger-wants-to-create-wework-for-education-via-digital-badges-and-mini-campuses


And the official press release headline was: Southern New
Hampshire University and LRNG Merge to Deploy Innovative
Community-Based Education Strategy in Cities Across the U.S.:
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/southern-new-hampshire-university-and-lrng-merge-to-deploy-innovative-community-based-education-strategy-in-cities-across-the-us-300734026.html


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