Currents 060: Panos Siozos on Online Education

Jim talks with Panos Siozos, CEO and co-founder of LearnWorlds, a platform for online education, about alternative routes in education delivery. They discuss how Panos transitioned from science to entrepreneurship, why adult lifetime learning is important right now, an increasing overlap between skills & hobbies, remote learning for brick-and-mortar schools, creating an online school as opposed to just courses, testing & assessment features, working with attention spans, increasing decomposition of degrees into certificates, nonlinear & social aspects of online education, the value of teacherly authority, the SCORM standard, and much more.