Guests

Lisa Lieberman is a writer and visual artist who has been a working writer for more than 25 years. As a journalist and reporter, she has covered a broad range of topics, including California farming, education, real estate, health care, parenting, and the environment, and she has won several writing awards, including the Gruner Award in Fresno for meritorious journalism. She is also a college English teacher, editor, and copywriter. On the podcast, she brings both a working writer's and a writing teacher's perspective to the question of what AI means for student writing.

Dave McCool is President and CEO of Muzzy Lane, the Massachusetts company founded in 2002 to improve education through games and simulations. An MIT-trained engineer with a background in technology startups, he leads a company that began with history strategy games such as Making History and now offers Muzzy Lane Author, a platform educators use to create their own simulation-based assessments, with partners including McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and Cengage. His focus is roleplay simulation for learning and assessment, especially durable skills such as critical thinking and collaboration. Muzzy Lane's SkillBuild courses, developed with Education Design Lab, pair roleplay scenarios with an AI coach and award microcredentials, and the company is now using AI to build dynamic roleplay simulations.

Chuck Dziuban is a pioneer of online learning at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he joined the faculty in 1970, taught statistics and research design, and directed the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness. UCF's first Pegasus Professor and an inaugural Online Learning Consortium fellow, he retired in June 2026 after 56 years of teaching. Beginning in 1996, he led the impact evaluation of UCF's distributed learning initiative, and the university's Chuck D. Dziuban Award for Excellence in Online Teaching bears his name. He is a co-editor, with Patsy Moskal and Anthony Picciano, of Data Analytics and Adaptive Learning: Research Perspectives, which collects studies of data-driven and adaptive learning across higher education, K-12, and adult education.

Patsy Moskal is Director of Digital Learning Impact Evaluation for the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Since 1996 she has served as UCF's liaison for faculty research on distributed learning and teaching effectiveness, and in 2011 she was named an Online Learning Consortium (then Sloan-C) Fellow for her work assessing the impact and efficacy of online and blended learning. Her expertise spans statistics, graphics, program evaluation, and applied data analysis. She is a co-editor, with Chuck Dziuban and Anthony Picciano, of Data Analytics and Adaptive Learning: Research Perspectives, which collects studies of data-driven and adaptive learning across higher education, K-12, and adult education.

Robert Ubell is Vice Dean Emeritus of Online Learning at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where he headed Tandon Online for nearly a decade. Earlier, he was Dean of Online Learning at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he launched WebCampus Stevens, and the first American publisher of Nature. He is a Fellow of the Online Learning Consortium and a recipient of the A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award. His working-class immigrant upbringing shaped his view of online learning's value, and he writes about digital education as an EdSurge columnist. He is the author of Going Online: Perspectives on Digital Learning, which argues that peer-to-peer and collaborative learning online can expand learning options for students of all ages.