Currents 060: Panos Siozos on Online Education - a podcast by .

Jim talks with Panos Siozos, CEO and co-founder of LearnWorlds, a platform for online education, about alternative routes in education delivery...
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.


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Panos Siozos has a PhD in Educational Technology from the Computer Science Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds a BSc from the same department. He has extensive work experience as a computer science educator and as a software engineer and IT manager. He has taken part as a researcher in many EU-funded research projects, and has worked in the European Parliament as a policy adviser for research and innovation issues (2009-2014). He is currently"tasting his own medicine,"having co-founded LearnWorlds.com, an ed-tech SaaS startup.

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