Thought Leaders in Online Education: Amesite CEO Ann Marie Sastry (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Double-click down one more level for me and tell me how. Ann Marie Sastry: So, we do this by selecting articles, ranking, and then training algorithms to select articles that are closely related either by hand selection or by other means.  Sramana Mitra: What are the sources of content that you’re applying algorithms

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Amesite CEO Ann Marie Sastry (Part 1)

Artificial intelligence is applied to EdTech in creative ways. Ann Marie discusses her company’s work in this field. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Amesite. Ann Marie Sastry: I’m the CEO and Founder of Amesite. We are an artificial-intelligence-driven designer and platform provider for online learning. We deliver courses, programs,

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Clara Piloto, Director of Global Programs at MIT Professional Education (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Summarize, as a last point, how you position vis-a-vis edX. When you go out to the world, how do you position MIT Professional Education versus edX? Clara Piloto: I’m going to focus on the MOOCs that edX is doing. They’re doing a lot of really cool things. They’re also expanding into professional education.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Clara Piloto, Director of Global Programs at MIT Professional Education (Part 4)

Clara Piloto: Corporate education is also growing quite a bit. We’re focusing on high-end quality experience for our corporate clients. That includes very customized programs in which we can provide different a la carte menu of experiences they’d like to bring in-house. It might be something that’s off-the-shelf content that’s slightly self-paced. We can share

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Clara Piloto, Director of Global Programs at MIT Professional Education (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Who’s paying? Is it all companies paying? Clara Piloto: It’s a combination. A lot of individuals are self-funding but there are a lot of companies that have tuition assistance. I believe the larger number is self-funding.  Sramana Mitra: If you segment the different areas where you offer professional education in, what is the

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Clara Piloto, Director of Global Programs at MIT Professional Education (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about structure? Is there anything specific in your structure that is particularly interesting? Clara Piloto: I’ll start with in-person. We’re driven by learning-by-doing. Apart from theoretical classes, we also offer practical hands-on experience. It has to be applicable the next day in companies in your organization for it to be

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Clara Piloto, Director of Global Programs at MIT Professional Education (Part 1)

Clara discusses MIT’s professional education initiative that is run in an online-offline hybrid format. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as your work at MIT that is relevant to online education. 

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Greg Smith, CEO of Thinkific (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Are you saying that you have opened up your platform to software developers who want to augment your platform that you then offer to your 40,000 sites? Greg Smith: Yes, we’re doing that. We have some people who have been doing that for quite some time. We are opening it up more and

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