Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 4)

SM: How do you specifically provide value for schools, teachers, parents and students? EF: Teachers are an extraordinary leverage point in the system because there are on average more than 100 students per secondary school teacher. While we’re focusing on serving all of the different constituencies, out of the gate for HotChalk it’s about teachers.

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Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 3)

SM: What types of strategic partnerships have you been able to create? EF: Strategic alliances are critical to our success and enable us to provide many resources for free to teachers, students and parents. Our partnerships with NBC and McGraw-Hill means HotChalk can provide time-tested, proven digital news video and teacher development resources offerings at

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Education & Technology: Now Is the Time – HotChalk CEO Edward Fields (Part 2)

SM: How was the transition from ProductFactory to HotChalk? EF: My experience at an enterprise software company like ProductFactory coupled with my consumer focused educational software experiences at The Learning Company set me up for HotChalk. Through these experiences I realized the tremendous potential of web-based educational technology resources. I was inspired by my own

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