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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Jon Mott, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Objects (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Who are some of the good showcases of your technology? Which institutions or organisations? Jon Mott: Currently, we’re working with University of Maryland University College (UMUC) on implementing a next generation transcript that changes the game. Instead of listing just courses and credit hours, it would actually display capabilities that the students have demonstrated
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Jon Mott, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Objects (Part 2)
Jon Mott: There are a lot of things that we have as components or modules of our platform like building quiz questions, building item banks, and having grade books. It doesn’t make sense for a small startup to build all of those from scratch. Instead of wasting their time and energy on that, they can
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Jon Mott, Chief Learning Officer, Learning Objects (Part 1)
Some thoughts on learning objectives driven instructional design. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Learning Objects. Jon Mott: I’m the Chief Learning Officer at Learning Objects. My responsibility at the company is to bring a learning science, higher education, and learning design perspective to both our product
Scaling an Educational Services Business to $50 Million: Todd Zipper, CEO of Learning House (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: You have to pick and choose the partner that you go to business with because you’re basically risk sharing. You both have to invest to get a new brand up and running. Todd Zipper: Yes. That’s where our expertise comes in around leveraging the brand that already exists and trying to cater to
Scaling an Educational Services Business to $50 Million: Todd Zipper, CEO of Learning House (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Going from curriculum to a more broad soup-to-nuts set of services and, accordingly, raising the percentage of the royalties that you get paid is a massive strategic move. Todd Zipper: It’s risky. I’d like to say we are in the private equity game because I’m going to be a million dollars in before
Scaling an Educational Services Business to $50 Million: Todd Zipper, CEO of Learning House (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Is there a particular subject material or type of degree that you specialize in? Todd Zipper: Good question. We are, essentially, generalists. Initially, my thesis when I saw the opportunity at Learning House was that I didn’t want to work with one particular subject area. Let’s say, teaching. That’s a big program online. Another big
Scaling an Educational Services Business to $50 Million: Todd Zipper, CEO of Learning House (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Who are the customers? Is this something that you sell as a software solution to other education institutions who are trying to launch or run an online program or are you actually running this as an outsourced service on behalf of these educational institutions who have a brand? What is the business model? Todd
Scaling an Educational Services Business to $50 Million: Todd Zipper, CEO of Learning House (Part 2)
Todd Zipper: Around late 2005, one of the entrepreneurs bought a business that became what Kaplan Higher Education is today. This individual had an idea to start a marketing business focused on higher education using TV commercials. We called it LendingTree meets eHarmony. It had a matching algorithm. We went on to build a brand
