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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Patrick Mullane, Executive Director of HBX (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Could you switch gears and tell me what you see out there as open problems around which people could be starting new companies? Patrick Mullane: That’s a broad question. I see a lot of opportunities in the job I’m in that we don’t address and I don’t see anybody addressing. One is how
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Patrick Mullane, Executive Director of HBX (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about some of the other trends that you see in this mode of delivering education. Are there international students who are just doing the certification and has nothing to do with applying for the full program? Patrick Mullane: Yes, for sure. Let me be clear. The number of people who use
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Patrick Mullane, Executive Director of HBX (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Now let’s go to the types of programs that you’re running. I’d like to take them one by one and understand better the trends in that. Let’s start with the one where you have people taking it as a preparatory step towards applying for Harvard MBA. What are the trends in that? Patrick
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Patrick Mullane, Executive Director of HBX (Part 1)
Harvard Business School is using online education extensively across different use cases. Learn how. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself and HBX platform. Patrick Mullane: I’m the Executive Director of HBX, which is Harvard Business School’s online education initiative. Harvard Business School built a custom platform about four years ago with the
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
