On the record.
A book chapter, launch posts, conversations and notes. Nearly all of it circles one question: what does it take to make learning active when it happens through a screen?
Making “the best seminar possible.”EdSurge, on what Minerva’s Forum was built to do
Book chapters.
The Active Learning Forum
Chapter 15 of Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education, written with Matt Regan and Ari Bader-Natal. How Forum was designed around the science of learning, and why a seminar on video can beat one in a room.
Afterword: For All Our Sakes
The closing chapter of the same book, co-authored with Ben Nelson, Stephen Kosslyn, Robin Goldberg and Teri Cannon.
From YouTube.
The next chapter for Learning on YouTube
The post that introduced Player for Education, Courses and Quizzes: products for learners who want to go deeper, and for creators who want to offer structured learning.
3 ways YouTube Player for Education is making edtech better for learners
A year in: what an ad-free, embeddable YouTube player changed for edtech products and the students using them.
Podcasts and stages.
New Year, New Ideas with Google, Part 5
On YouTube Learning in the AI era: active-learning features, AI tutors and assessment. Recorded at Google’s Learning in the AI Era event.
Minerva’s Jonathan Katzman on making ‘the best seminar possible’
An EdSurge podcast interview on building Forum, and what a platform has to do before a professor can stop lecturing.
ASU+GSV Summit
Speaker at the education-technology industry’s annual gathering.
Notes on LinkedIn.
Ask, YouTube’s conversational AI, arrives for Premium members
Introducing the tool that lets you ask questions about the video you’re watching, with an open invitation to talk LLMs and generative AI.
Player for Education, one year on
Sharing what the team learned from bringing YouTube into edtech products.
News from the YouTube Official Blog
An early-2023 post from the YouTube Learning team’s launch season.