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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Kurt Kirstein, Dean of School of Management, City University of Seattle (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What we hear from people is that the flexibility of the web self-service mode curriculum is very attractive to them because it’s something that they can do at their own time. Many of our entrepreneurs are practicing entrepreneurs. They will do the curriculum at their own time. In any case, the flexibility is
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Kurt Kirstein, Dean of School of Management, City University of Seattle (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You’re saying that once they get their feet wet in the online program, they prefer the convenience and the flexibility of the online class? Kurt Kirstein: They do. I think they perceive the value of it. Many of the students who come to us went to school. The last time they went to
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Kurt Kirstein, Dean of School of Management, City University of Seattle (Part 2)
Kurt Kirstein: They’re looking to finish a degree or looking for career advancement. That’s the primary market that we serve. In that sense, we don’t serve freshmen. We don’t have freshmen that come in in droves every Fall. We serve people who are working and have decided that they have enough time and it’s a
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Kurt Kirstein, Dean of School of Management, City University of Seattle (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. This discussion focuses on online education models that maximize engagement and minimize drop rates. Sramana Mitra: Kurt, let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to what you’re doing at City University of Seattle. Kurt Kirstein: I am currently the Dean in the
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: I’m not doing the research. Somebody who knows better than I do is curating or providing that content and the education that I need. Essentially at that point, it’s an online university of its own style. I think that’s what’s going to happen at each of the university levels as well as there
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 6)
Sean Brown: My personal belief is that we are in the early days of what education content can do for entrepreneurs worldwide. I believe it is a bonanza – a green field – of opportunity to sit down and think about the education that they have received, what they think is valuable, the parts of
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like there’s quite a bit of classification and slotting that goes on. Is that happening on your end or is that happening in someone else’s system like Blackboard? Sean Brown: It happens on our end. Then that last mile is that the university will say, “It is wonderful that you have
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: That would have been my guess. They take advantage of the resources you give them. Sean Brown: The next thing I was going to tell you though is that the new trend is for institutions to start to take advantage of the presence of these video systems and flip the classroom. Schools are
