Thought Leaders in Online Education: Greg Smith, CEO of Thinkific (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Are you saying that you have opened up your platform to software developers who want to augment your platform that you then offer to your 40,000 sites? Greg Smith: Yes, we’re doing that. We have some people who have been doing that for quite some time. We are opening it up more and

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Greg Smith, CEO of Thinkific (Part 4)

Greg Smith: Another trend is the mass adoption of online learning. People across all socio-economic demographics are going to online learning as the first place to look for things. It’s becoming more and more acceptable. In fact all the marketplaces out there for online learning have helped build this trend. That is the pull behind

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Greg Smith, CEO of Thinkific (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How much of this is pure content subscription versus interactive tutoring or teaching? In 1M1M, we have a digital curriculum. Our basic program is a monthly subscription. In the premium, it’s an all-you-can-eat annual subscription. Additionally, in the premium program, we have online mentoring that goes with the asynchronous curriculum.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Greg Smith, CEO of Thinkific (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What trends are you seeing on your platform? What are the top topics that people are teaching and what are the top topics that people are learning? Greg Smith: This is a question I get a lot. There are trends within different areas. There’s a lot of training and education around health and

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Greg Smith, CEO of Thinkific (Part 1)

Online education is a booming field that is seeing entrepreneurship both on the platform and technology tool side as well as on the educator side. This interview covers both. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Thinkific.