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Educated Guesses

Sep 27, 2022

In the season finale, Oded and Barry talk to Dr. Johanna Höffken and Dr. Reinoud Lavrijsen, two award winning teachers based at TU Eindhoven. Both have won the Netherland’s Teacher of the Year award, which is awarded by the Dutch National Students Association (Höffken in 2020 and Lavrijsen in 2022). In the...


Sep 27, 2022

In the 2nd part of their interview with Mark Nichols, Barry and Oded ask Mark some of the many classical questions about the place of CBL in curricula. For example, what’s the best way to introduce the approach in the classroom, and what’s the best way to get the teachers on board with CBL? Finally, they consider...


Sep 27, 2022

In the 1st part of their interview with Mark Nichols, Barry and Oded get to know more about how the concept of Challenge Based Learning (CBL) came to be, and what it has to do with beer making and drinking. CBL as a key methodology promoted by the Challenge Institute is further discussed.


Sep 27, 2022

In the 2nd part of Barry and Oded’s interview with Prof. Lilach Shalev-Mevorach, the discussion turns to the risks that education is facing due to modern technology and the shrinking attention span of students at all levels. In addition, the discussion explores the future of learning.


Sep 27, 2022

In the 1st part of their interview with Professor Lilach Shalev-Mevorach, Barry and Oded dive into the world of attention research. What are the ingredients needed for learning while being able to retain attention? And how did the pandemic teach us more about online education than 20 years of experimentations with...