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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: The names that you’re rattling off – are they more of state schools? I haven’t heard you mention Harvard, MIT, or Stanford. Sean Brown: They are. Quickly speaking, schools that have a business school, medical school, and law school with 20,000 students or more tend to be the kind of schools that are
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 2)
Sean Brown: But they didn’t expect them to go chop down the trees to make the paper. There was an industry and process in which they could participate in ways that were natural to their teaching and natural to their research. I’m saying that from the Internet explosion, there was a period of time where
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Video of the classroom is a trend. How is it playing out? Sramana Mitra: Sean, let’s start with a bit of context. Tell us a bit about yourself as well as Sonic Foundry. Sean Brown: I’m the Senior Vice President of Sonic Foundry. I’ve worked for
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 6)
Ray Martinez: The trend that we certainly want to see in higher education is the growth of options that will allow particularly non-traditional students in that category between 25 and 64 who are looking to go back to college and complete a degree to advance their careers further. That is a trend that we’ve probably not
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You have two kinds of mentors – student and course mentors. Then, the curriculum material is coming from third party? Ray Martinez: Typically, that is the case for most of our degree programs. Sramana Mitra: What about completion rates? When we talk about MOOCs – self-managed online learning – there’s a distinct problem
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 4)
Ray Martinez: The second part of our faculty is what we call the course mentor. The course mentor is typically your subject matter expert. If I’m signed up in the College of Business for WGU Texas and I’m taking an Accounting 101 course, and if I stumble along the way in trying to learn the
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You have the national number and you have all these WGU state chapters? Ray Martinez: Exactly, we have our state-branded universities but they’re all a part of the national university, which again is Western Governors University. Here in Texas, our student population is close to 5,000. Majority of our students are enrolled in
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me a little more about WGU. Ray Martinez: WGU was founded 16 years ago by a group of governors who were representing western states. This is back in 1996 – a little more than 16 years ago. In 1996 at a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association, the idea of using technology
