Catching Up On Readings: Must Reads for Geeks

This article in Wall Street Journal features the capsule reviews of three must-read books for geeks on artificial intelligence, video gaming and new age geek parenting: ‘The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer,’ ‘Beyond Zero and One,’ and ‘Geek Parenting’. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ron Olsen, CEO of Remote Learner (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Any other trends that you want to highlight? Ron Olsen: What we’re seeing from our clients is really a stronger push towards the user experience and identifying this learning solution as ours. Particularly in the corporate space, how do our training and learning solutions directly tie in to our own brand? How do

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Can you elaborate on that selection process? If it’s an open crowd, this is not going to happen. Unless there’s some sort of a screening criteria that selects a group of people of a certain intellectual level, background, etc, I don’t think you will get that. What is happening in the selection process?

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Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How big was the LexisNexis deal? Dave Copps: It ended up being a multi-year deal that paid us over $3 million. Sramana Mitra: That’s awesome. Dave Copps: For a startup, it’s amazing. Sramana Mitra: What about the early parts of this company? Obviously, you had made money from the previous company and you

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ron Olsen, CEO of Remote Learner (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can you give us an example of some of these additional technologies beyond Learning Management Systems that are coming into play in that context? Ron Olsen: Some of it is technology-based and some of it is services-based. From a technology standpoint, it’s not just enough to have a Learning Management System, but the

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 4)

Bharat Anand: For this to work, we actually need to become comfortable knowing who else is on the platform. We have real profiles and not anonymous IDs. In terms of making it active, we have all kinds of interactive exercises. We also introduced a feature which we copied directly from the classroom, which is what

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Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 3)

Dave Copps: I think when you have too much money, you get lazy. I like the idea that you’re always conscious of every dollar you spend. When I say we raised $3 million, that’s because we brought in more than that in revenue to continue bootstrapping a big piece of it. We were finally given

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ron Olsen, CEO of Remote Learner (Part 1)

What kinds of technologies are missing from the portfolios of learning management systems that customers looking to launch online learning programs need? This is the subject of my conversation with Ron Olsen. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some background about yourself as well as Remote Learner. Ron Olsen: I’m the CEO of Remote Learner. Over

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