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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 15th

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

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, Apr 14th

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

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Apr 13th

Sramana Mitra: In what kinds of disciplines are you seeing the maximum online adoption? Is it engineering, nursing, or business? Todd Hitchcock: Traditionally, there has been a lot of growth in business and engineering. We see a tremendous amount of growth in healthcare professions. We see growth in degree programs that are associated directly with

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Apr 12th

Sramana Mitra: In these cases, are the universities providing the content and you’re providing the delivery framework? Are you also providing content? Todd Hitchcock: I’ll walk you through the component. After we’ve done the market assessment, we engage with the university and talk about all of the services that need to be in place in

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Apr 11th

Sramana Mitra: Any particular discipline or is it across the board? Todd Hitchcock: It’s funny you should ask that one. How we determine whether or not to partner with an institution is not like a traditional sale where we go and sell our products to someone. We’re actually very strategic in how we engage with

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Apr 10th

Sramana Mitra: Where does Embanet fit into this picture? Todd Hitchcock: I should build on one other thing before I jump in to answer that question.  Our goal as a company – it’s emblematic of Pearson Embanet – is to ensure that every single product and service that we create is founded on efficacy. Our

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 9th

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  The Higher Education industry is going through massive adoption of online education. This conversation highlights the trends, as well as areas where Pearson is looking for partners. Sramana Mitra: Todd, let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the Pearson Embanet unit

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sher Downing, Executive Director of Online Academic Services at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (Part 7)

Posted on Thursday, Mar 27th

Sramana Mitra: Engineering schools wanting to teach entrepreneurship is a different trend. What’s driving that trend is that engineering students and engineering graduates are the best equipped to start companies – especially when it comes to the whole IT kind of entrepreneurship which is the most prevalent form of entrepreneurship all over the world right

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