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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: All right. I’m going to switch to my last question. Based on the trends you see on online learning, where do you see opportunities for entrepreneurs to start new companies? Bharat Anand: Let me step back a bit. Technology is allowing us to create all sorts of new and interesting offerings. I wanted
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: I don’t buy that this is going to scale necessarily. Bharat Anand: Yes, go ahead. Sramana Mitra: What you’re saying, it works to a point. I don’t think it’s going to, necessarily, scale to millions of numbers – the kind of numbers with which edX is working with right now. I don’t think
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?
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
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Reach criteria is true for all of those platforms. Bharat Anand: That’s true for all of those platforms, and that’s what I’m coming to. Let us look at that metric and situate where we were coming from at Harvard Business School. Having a case discussion is not something that is immediately obvious that you know
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 2)
Bharat Anand: The third question is, frankly, just about seeing the trend out there. As you see a lot of universities and colleges create these free online courses, it’s not that hard to actually put content online. We take great pride in what we do on campus in terms of the pedagogical experience that our
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Bharat Anand, Faculty Chair, HBX at Harvard Business School (Part 1)
Online first or classroom first? This discussion delves into the design principles of the two models. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the Digital Learning initiative at Harvard. Bharat Anand: I’m a Professor in Strategy at Harvard Business School. I also served as Faculty Chair of our
