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From Iran to Stanford to Silicon Valley Entrepreneur: Farnaz Ronaghi, Co-Founder and CTO of NovoEd (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What year did you start this? When did you start offering the course around which you did the first experiment? Farnaz Ronaghi: Mid-2012. Sramana Mitra: You said you had 30,000 people who came together. Farnaz Ronaghi: In the first Technology Entrepreneurship class, we had 40,000 enrolments. Sramana Mitra: What time window are we
From Iran to Stanford to Silicon Valley Entrepreneur: Farnaz Ronaghi, Co-Founder and CTO of NovoEd (Part 1)
Donald Trump wants to restrict immigrants, especially those from Muslim countries, and especially from Iran. Well, read this Iranian entrepreneur’s story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and in what kind of background? Farnaz Ronaghi: I was born in Tehran, Iran. I
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: What you do forecast? Based on your experience and based on the fact that you’re immersed in this world, at what point in our evolution do we expect to see a broader and deeper penetration of online learning into the full-fledged K-12 system? Cheryl Vedoe: I think I would really need a crystal
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Why is that, though? It makes sense to equip all schools with this ability to personalize and help teachers give this personalized guidance. Why is that movement slow? Cheryl Vedoe: I think I can answer that, most readily, by speaking about why it was faster in the other two cases. In the case
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: My question was slightly different, though. My question is what percentage of US schools have virtual advanced placement programs? Cheryl Vedoe: I can’t tell you that off the top of my head. That’s not a data point that we track. I can tell you that we do have thousands of students who enroll
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 3)
Cheryl Vedoe: For example, in programs such as a credit recovery program, the teacher has access at his or her fingertips to data in real-time to show how every student is progressing and what their quality of work is. In our platform, teachers get alerts when there are things that they should discuss with students so
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 2)
Cheryl Vedoe:What we have found in surveying students who have an unsuccessful track record is that the programs using it most successfully are actually brick-and-mortar programs where the teacher is in the classroom with the student. Very consistent with the point that you made, we find that those students who need more support and help are
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Cheryl Vedoe, CEO of Apex Learning (Part 1)
Online education in K-12 has had very few ventures survive or scale. Apex Learning is one of those rare birds. We first covered their story eight years back. This is a catch up conversation with their CEO Cheryl Vedoe that steps us through the ongoing evolution of the K-12 online education sector. Sramana Mitra: Let’s
