EdTech Podcast Episodes

Updated: November 25, 2025

Higher Education’s AI Problem

Up First from NPR · 28m

Across the country, colleges and universities are struggling to figure out how to incorporate AI into the classroom. ChatGPT debuted almost exactly three years ago. And very quickly, students began to see its potential as a study buddy, an immense research tool and, for some, a way to cheat the syst...

November 23, 2025

What values should be driving the EdTech of the future?

Education Technology Society · 19m

Professor Arathi Sriprakash (University of Oxford) wants us to reimagine edtech along radically different lines. What might digital education look like if it was based around principles of reparation, sovereignty, care and democratisation? Accompanying reference >>> Sriprakash, A., Williamson, ...

November 22, 2025

What Can Google Do to Protect Education?

The Higher EdTech Podcast · 28m

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Canvas, and many more have positioned themselves as solutions to education problems, but they're making very few moves to protect what we know about the learning process? It wouldn't be hard for them to make things work in much more pedagogically sound ways, but the...

November 20, 2025

A Global Observatory for Higher Education Change: What We’re Learning

The World of Higher Education · 18m

In this episode, Attila Pausits, Professor of Higher Education Research and Development, delves into the inaugural report by the Global Observatory on Higher Education Changes (GOHEC). Attila sheds light on the latest trends in higher education, the role of AI in research, and the importance of a gl...

November 20, 2025

How Higher Ed Can Actually Prepare Students for Work with Brandon Busteed of Edconic

Edtech Insiders · 49m

Send us a text Brandon Busteed is the CEO of Edconic and a nationally recognized leader in work-integrated learning. Formerly President of Kaplan University Partners and Head of Education & Workforce Development at Gallup, he has spent his career building bridges between higher education and industr...

November 24, 2025

Education Technology Podcast Episodes