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Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Anything else that you want to conclude with? John Miller: The thing that I’d share with you is I have a true passion for this. I came out of retirement to join HOL to focus on this STEM issue. K-12 initiatives are two generations away. Dr. Bared of Intel was quoted as saying
Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What do you forecast will happen to these online universities that are charging almost full price or maybe 10% less than the physical schools? John Miller: There’s an emergence of a new model that is far more cost-effective, that I think will become pervasive. An example is an organization called StraighterLine, which is
Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about your business of working with a thousand universities and hundred thousand students. What does that business entail? John Miller: That business focuses on supplying the lab kits that are required for STEM courses. What our company has done is develop a multi-solution package depending upon what experience the school and
Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 3)
John Miller: One of the challenges they have coming back into education is the whole on boarding process and preparing the employee to come back in. There’re a number of demands that really come into play here. When you start to think about regaining your study skills and the ability to do time management with the
Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Then what do you do to fill those gaps? Do you develop content modules to be delivered over the Internet around those skill gap areas? John Miller: What we are in the process of doing with our clients is identifying the gaps and then, building a goal alignment. We go through a very
Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 1)
There is a huge gap between industry and academia today. Learn more about the lay of the land and identify opportunities for entrepreneurship. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with giving our audience a bit of context about Hands-On Learning (HOL). What do you do? What major online education industry trends are you aligning with?
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sher Downing, Executive Director of Online Academic Services at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Engineering schools wanting to teach entrepreneurship is a different trend. What’s driving that trend is that engineering students and engineering graduates are the best equipped to start companies – especially when it comes to the whole IT kind of entrepreneurship which is the most prevalent form of entrepreneurship all over the world right
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sher Downing, Executive Director of Online Academic Services at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: You said you have students taking your program internationally. Can you talk a bit more about where and what are the trends on that front? Sher Downing: We have two types of international students. One is those who are obviously living overseas. We also have students who travel quite a bit extensively for
