Dec 11, 2019
This episode’s guest is Emiliana Vegas, co-director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is an expert on education in developing countries.
Emiliana talked with José “Pepe” Escamilla about the challenges and opportunities in Latin American educational systems. They discussed...
Nov 27, 2019
José “Pepe” Escamilla visits Dr. Randy Bass at Georgetown University. He is Vice Provost for Education and Professor of English at Georgetown, where he founded the Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, and now he directs the Red House.
In a meaningful conversation, Dr. Randy Bass explains that...
Nov 13, 2019
José “Pepe” Escamilla visited the Brookings Institute in
Washington, DC, to meet with Rebecca Winthrop, who is a Senior
Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at
Brookings.
Rebecca tried to answer if classrooms are evolving as fast as
technological transformations and described how it is
possible...
Oct 30, 2019
In this episode we talked to Philipp Schmidt, director of Learning Innovation at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the MediaLab Learning Initiative and conducts research on learning communities.
A conversation about the future of teaching and learning, the power of open communities and the impact of Peer 2 Peer...
Oct 16, 2019
A conversation with Alex Amouyel, the Executive Director of MIT’s SOLVE, an initiative that aims to identify solutions to actionable challenges through open innovation.
José “Pepe” Escamilla and Alex Amouyel discuss how SOLVE works, what are the most critical world challenges they are trying to tackle, and how...