In our latest podcast I talk with Kevin Prentiss of Swift Kick. We discuss Swift Kick’s work to increase student engagement, and consider the ways in which traditional models of education are being disrupted both by providers of new technology and by the students themselves.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• 37 Signals
• AOL
• Blackboard
• Charting a Hero’s Journey
• Arthur Chickering, and his models of student development
• Craigslist
• Disrupting Class and my podcast with the authors
• Facebook
• Facebook as ’social glue’ press release
• Learning Reconsidered: a campus-wide focus on the Student Experience
• Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
• MySpace
• OpenCourseWare
• Popego
• Kevin Prentiss’ blog post, ‘Ivory Tower: Attack or Negotiate? Part 1‘
• Red Rover
• Stanford University
• Swift Kick
• Vincent Tinto, researching student retention
• Twine
• University of Phoenix
• UserPlane
• Vimeo
• Wikipedia

This conversation was conducted using Skype on Wednesday 29 October, recorded with Ecamm Network’s Call Recorder for Skype, and edited on a Mac with Garageband.For other Talis podcasts in this Xiphos series, see here. To subscribe to updates from all of Talis’ podcast series, see here.