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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 6)
Ray Martinez: The trend that we certainly want to see in higher education is the growth of options that will allow particularly non-traditional students in that category between 25 and 64 who are looking to go back to college and complete a degree to advance their careers further. That is a trend that we’ve probably not
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You have two kinds of mentors – student and course mentors. Then, the curriculum material is coming from third party? Ray Martinez: Typically, that is the case for most of our degree programs. Sramana Mitra: What about completion rates? When we talk about MOOCs – self-managed online learning – there’s a distinct problem
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 4)
Ray Martinez: The second part of our faculty is what we call the course mentor. The course mentor is typically your subject matter expert. If I’m signed up in the College of Business for WGU Texas and I’m taking an Accounting 101 course, and if I stumble along the way in trying to learn the
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You have the national number and you have all these WGU state chapters? Ray Martinez: Exactly, we have our state-branded universities but they’re all a part of the national university, which again is Western Governors University. Here in Texas, our student population is close to 5,000. Majority of our students are enrolled in
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me a little more about WGU. Ray Martinez: WGU was founded 16 years ago by a group of governors who were representing western states. This is back in 1996 – a little more than 16 years ago. In 1996 at a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association, the idea of using technology
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Adult education is becoming more of an issue. Competency-based learning that ties into employment directly is necessary to mitigate the unemployment problems in America and elsewhere. WGU has an interesting model. Sramana Mitra: Ray, let’s start by giving our audience a little bit of background about
MBA vs. 1M/1M, Let’s Do The Math
By guest author Irina Patterson I recently read a book by Philip Delves Broughton called Ahead of the Curve – Two Years at Harvard Business School. The book is about Philip’s firsthand experience at HBS during 2004-2006. The book is so sarcastic that, reportedly, it made Harvard very unhappy. I enjoyed the book, but it
Are MBA Programs Failing?
By guest author Jeff Saperstein Sramana has launched a most useful discussion about whether MBA programs are failing entrepreneurs. As a fifteen-year adjunct lecturer at San Francisco State University’s Graduate School of Business and a ten-year visiting professor at ESCP–Paris Graduate Business Program, I have taught thousands of MBA students. Research we conducted for “Bust
