Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What you do forecast? Based on your experience and based on the fact that you’re immersed in this world, at what point in our evolution do we expect to see a broader and deeper penetration of online learning into the full-fledged K-12 system? Cheryl Vedoe: I think I would really need a crystal

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Why is that, though? It makes sense to equip all schools with this ability to personalize and help teachers give this personalized guidance. Why is that movement slow? Cheryl Vedoe: I think I can answer that, most readily, by speaking about why it was faster in the other two cases. In the case

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: My question was slightly different, though. My question is what percentage of US schools have virtual advanced placement programs? Cheryl Vedoe: I can’t tell you that off the top of my head. That’s not a data point that we track. I can tell you that we do have thousands of students who enroll

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 3)

Cheryl Vedoe: For example, in programs such as a credit recovery program, the teacher has access at his or her fingertips to data in real-time to show how every student is progressing and what their quality of work is. In our platform, teachers get alerts when there are things that they should discuss with students so

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 2)

Cheryl Vedoe:What we have found in surveying students who have an unsuccessful track record is that the programs using it most successfully are actually brick-and-mortar programs where the teacher is in the classroom with the student. Very consistent with the point that you made, we find that those students who need more support and help are

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 1)

Online education in K-12 has had very few ventures survive or scale. Apex Learning is one of those rare birds. We first covered their story eight years back. This is a catch up conversation with their CEO Cheryl Vedoe that steps us through the ongoing evolution of the K-12 online education sector. Sramana Mitra: Let’s

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Helping At-Risk High School Students with Online Solutions: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe (Part 7)

SM: If I have understood correctly, the primary presentation of your business occurs on two ends, with gifted students doing Advanced Placement courses on one end and at-risk students on the other end. It also seems that schools will do whatever it takes to help at-risk students to help them pass. CV: Overall, yes. Where

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Helping At-Risk High School Students with Online Solutions: Apex Learning CEO Cheryl Vedoe (Part 6)

SM: At this point, do you have full coverage of the entire basic high school curriculum? CV: We do. We cover the requirements across subject areas of math, science, social studies, and English in order to graduate.