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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Victoria Zambito, SVP of Content and Communications at Vector Solutions (Part 1)
Attention deficit disorder of our online universe has some direct impact on online learning. Read on for more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company Vector Solutions. Victoria Zambito: I’m the Senior Vice President of Content and Communications at Vector Solutions. Vector Solutions provides online education
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Blake Garrett, CEO of Aceable (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I think I understand what your perspective is on online education. What kind of a company are you? Are you bootstrapped? Blake Garrett: We are funded but we use cash much more effectively than some of our competitors. I founded the company in late 2012 and I frankly didn’t have the development skills to
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Blake Garrett, CEO of Aceable (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What are the trends in your space as it pertains to online education? Blake Garrett: We are seeing this macro-trend from people moving from the classroom to online education. When we started three years ago, about 150,000 people took online driver’s education in Texas. Those numbers would be closer to 200,000 if normalized for
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Blake Garrett, CEO of Aceable (Part 1)
Blake discusses a unique area of online education: training for licenses of various kinds of vehicles, etc. using mobile apps. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Aceable. Blake Garrett: I’m the Founder of Aceable. Aceable is focused on licensure and certification training. We created a mobile-first platform that allows people
From Iran to Stanford to Silicon Valley Entrepreneur: Farnaz Ronaghi, Co-Founder and CTO of NovoEd (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: When you go into corporate sales situations, whom do you see in deals? Farnaz Ronaghi: That’s an interesting question. I was telling you that we don’t exist as a tool in the corporate landscape. That’s really true. There’s another tool called Intrepid Learning that we sometimes run into. They are similar to us
From Iran to Stanford to Silicon Valley Entrepreneur: Farnaz Ronaghi, Co-Founder and CTO of NovoEd (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Your hypothesis was that you’re going to be selling to the corporate learning environment, did that pan out? Farnaz Ronaghi: It’s too early to say if it has panned out completely, but it has. The mix of our customers in the past two years has mainly been universities. Then there are lots of
From Iran to Stanford to Silicon Valley Entrepreneur: Farnaz Ronaghi, Co-Founder and CTO of NovoEd (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: The pivot story is very interesting. I actually think this is a very helpful discussion because the online education space is still struggling to find business models that work. Coursera and Udacity have had a lot of problems finding scalable business models. Could you work me through the other experiments you did and
From Iran to Stanford to Silicon Valley Entrepreneur: Farnaz Ronaghi, Co-Founder and CTO of NovoEd (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What was your hypothesis at this point about what was going to be the business model of your company? Did you have one? Farnaz Ronaghi: Yes. In the beginning, there were a lot of companies who started doing MOOCs but in different flavors. There’s Coursera who seemed like it was trying to replace
