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Thought Leaders in Online Gaming: Jumpstart Games CEO David Lord (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What are the trends in your space that are worth discussing? David Lord: The primary trend that is happening is this integrated classroom. We also have the Google Classroom. There’s this unified front where everything is tied together so that the solutions are delivered to classrooms in an easier way. They also apply
Thought Leaders in Online Gaming: Jumpstart Games CEO David Lord (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What results do you have? David Lord: We’re in 50 to 60 schools already. We’ve got 500 classrooms. We’ve got our first efficacy report that has been peer-reviewed. We’re seeing great results – about 18% improvement in scores in standardized tests using our Jumpstart Academy math product. We’re starting with that and we’ll
Thought Leaders in Online Gaming: JumpStart Games CEO David Lord (Part 1)
This conversation highlights Gamification in online learning. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to JumpStart Games. David Lord: I’m the CEO of JumpStart Games. We build games for kids ages 3 to 13. Some of our products include JumpStart, which is our legacy brand that has been delivering
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Steve Gross, CEO of Calvert Education (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Can you give me an example of the projects? Steve Gross: An example would be developing a contraption that leverages materials that normally wouldn’t be available inside the classroom. Sramana Mitra: But what has that got to do with online learning? Steve Gross: There’re two things that we are talking about simultaneously. One
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Steve Gross, CEO of Calvert Education (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: So your primary business on the B2B side is as an online curriculum provider, effectively. Steve Gross: That is true but I don’t think that’s the full description of it. I would say that we are a curriculum provider as well as an online program manager. What that means is we provide the
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Steve Gross, CEO of Calvert Education (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What is the motivation for private schools to use your digital platform? Steve Gross: A couple of things. We have history on the home school side. Most traditional home schoolers home school their children from grade K through 8. That makes sense. It’s easier to teach third-grade math as opposed to 11th grade
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Steve Gross, CEO of Calvert Education (Part 1)
A very interesting discussion on the pedagogical gap in online-offline hybrid learning methodology for younger kids. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Calvert Education. Steve Gross: Calvert is a very established organization. It was founded in the early 1900s. It’s probably the world’s first distance learning organization.
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Victoria Zambito, SVP of Content and Communications at Vector Solutions (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What are you doing with your legacy courses? Are you chopping them up? Victoria Zambito: Yes. Vector Solutions has over 6,000 courses. Actually going in and hand-chopping them up would take a lot of time. We had our development team look at our courses. They looked at the metadata inside the course and
