Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I’m not doing the research. Somebody who knows better than I do is curating or providing that content and the education that I need. Essentially at that point, it’s an online university of its own style. I think that’s what’s going to happen at each of the university levels as well as there

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 6)

Sean Brown: My personal belief is that we are in the early days of what education content can do for entrepreneurs worldwide. I believe it is a bonanza – a green field – of opportunity to sit down and think about the education that they have received, what they think is valuable, the parts of

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like there’s quite a bit of classification and slotting that goes on. Is that happening on your end or is that happening in someone else’s system like Blackboard? Sean Brown: It happens on our end. Then that last mile is that the university will say, “It is wonderful that you have

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That would have been my guess. They take advantage of the resources you give them. Sean Brown: The next thing I was going to tell you though is that the new trend is for institutions to start to take advantage of the presence of these video systems and flip the classroom. Schools are

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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

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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

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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

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2010: Examville, New York City

Examville is a global online education platform for user-to-user collaborative learning. The platform provides an open, virtual meeting place to connect teachers with students of any age or nationality while offering access to materials from major educational publishers.