Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Anything else that you want to conclude with? John Miller: The thing that I’d share with you is I have a true passion for this. I came out of retirement to join HOL to focus on this STEM issue. K-12 initiatives are two generations away. Dr. Bared of Intel was quoted as saying

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What do you forecast will happen to these online universities that are charging almost full price or maybe 10% less than the physical schools? John Miller: There’s an emergence of a new model that is far more cost-effective, that I think will become pervasive. An example is an organization called StraighterLine, which is

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about your business of working with a thousand universities and hundred thousand students. What does that business entail? John Miller: That business focuses on supplying the lab kits that are required for STEM courses. What our company has done is develop a multi-solution package depending upon what experience the school and

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 3)

John Miller: One of the challenges they have coming back into education is the whole on boarding process and preparing the employee to come back in. There’re a number of demands that really come into play here. When you start to think about regaining your study skills and the ability to do time management with the

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Then what do you do to fill those gaps? Do you develop content modules to be delivered over the Internet around those skill gap areas? John Miller: What we are in the process of doing with our clients is identifying the gaps and then, building a goal alignment. We go through a very

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: John Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Hands-On Learning (Part 1)

There is a huge gap between industry and academia today. Learn more about the lay of the land and identify opportunities for entrepreneurship. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with giving our audience a bit of context about Hands-On Learning (HOL). What do you do? What major online education industry trends are you aligning with?

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: The Income Tax School, Virginia

Peoples Income Tax (PIT) was founded in 1987 by Chuck MCabe, who had the idea of creating a national tax franchise after an almost twenty-year career with H&R Block. His vision was to create an upscale mass market tax service that could compete with H&R Block on quality and certified public accountant (CPA) firms on

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