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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Karen Francis, CEO of Academix Direct (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Does that mean that you catalog Pluralsight and TrainSignal and all of these course providers? Karen Francis: Not everyone but if we don’t, it’s because we just haven’t contacted them yet. We’re really out there. We have a business development team seeking new course providers. You can also go to the site and
Thought leaders in Online Education: Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education, UC Irvine (Part 3)
Sramana: You are making the claim that often people are looking for a specific piece of information and that they do not need to complete an entire course. It is not necessary to complete an entire course just to supplement a specific skill gap. Gary Matkin: We all have learning projects every day. Those learning
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Karen Francis, CEO of Academix Direct (Part 2)
Karen Francis: We’re seeing the emerging trend of students saying, “This is why I want this track and this is what I’ll take. I’m not going to take the rest of it.” They are able to customize what they want either from a broad perspective of choosing colleges and institutions or saying, “I’m going take
Thought leaders in Online Education: Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education, UC Irvine (Part 2)
Sramana: Will this consumption and sharing of open education resources occur via shared MOOCs? Gary Matkin: Open education resources will expand dramatically beyond formal higher education. The big driver here is the need for more and more people to become better and better educated, often for very specific things in their lives. They need to
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Karen Francis, CEO of Academix Direct (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Online Education continues to be a fast-changing field, and various people are working on various aspects of the industry to make a complicated puzzle come together. This conversation explores some of those pieces. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to you as well as
Thought leaders in Online Education: Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education, UC Irvine (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Gary Matkin has been involved with open education from the beginning. Here, he discusses the current issues and predicts the demise of Moocs. Read on for a fascinating insight into the future of open education. Sramana: Gary, let’s set some context for our readers. Could you
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: I’m going to switch gears a little bit. If you were to advise entrepreneurs who are interested in working in the domain of online education, where would you point them? Where do you see open opportunities to build businesses in? Todd Hitchcock: There are a lot of inflection points. We know that there
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: That’s only true if you’re looking at those local types of businesses. We work globally and we work on only digital entrepreneurships – IT, IT-enabled services types of businesses. That’s non-local and a lot of it is very scalable. We’re seeing a lot of interest from entrepreneurs all around the world – not
