Send us a text Troy Williams is a Managing Director at Achieve and University Ventures . Troy leads both firm’s investments in education technology companies, including AdmitHub , EverTrue , Examity , Motimatic , Packback and Ready Education . Prior to UV, Troy was a senior executive at Macmillan where he was CEO of Macmillan Enterprise Solutions and President of Macmillan New Ventures. Previously, Troy founded and served as CEO of Questia Media, an early ebook company. Prior to Questia, He was ...
Jul 18, 2022•55 min•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Alec Levin is the co-founder and CEO of Learners. Learners, formerly known as UXR Collective, started as a small meetup in Toronto and has become an online learning platform for researchers and designers around the world. Before Learners Alec worked in product and user research at a number of Toronto-based startups including Thalmic Labs, Finaeo, and Meta. Recommended Resources Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell...
Jul 11, 2022•46 min•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Melissa Jones leads Technical Programs for Shopify , focused on empowering the Research and Development teams with the technical skill and support they need to be successful. She oversees onboarding, leadership development, communications and early talent initiatives for engineering and the other R&D disciplines. Prior to joining Shopify, Melissa served in leadership roles at General Assembly , Code.org and Adobe . Alison Evans Adnani is the senior program lead for the Dev Deg...
Jul 06, 2022•50 min•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Guest: Quinn Taber , Founder & CEO @ Immerse Topics This Week: Politics Heat Up Colleges aren’t prepared for Roe’s fall Schools Are Spending Billions on High-Tech Defense for Mass Shootings 'Don’t Say Gay’ bills will make it harder for teachers to support students The public cost of private schools Education Department Approves $8 Billion in Public Service Loan Forgiveness ISTE A Call For ‘A Major Infusion of Joy’ Teachers Are Reminded of the Value They Bring to Ed-Tech C...
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Andrew Baird is the President & CEO of the global hub of Education For Employment (EFE-Global). Andrew brings to EFE more than twenty-five years of experience in advancing private sector-led strategies to create inclusive employment and livelihoods around the world - including in several countries where EFE operates. He is a strong advocate for women’s economic employment, and promoting entrepreneurship. He co-founded the Global Center for Youth Employment , a membership-based...
Jun 27, 2022•42 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Guest: Victoria Ransom , Founder & Co-President of Prisma Topics This Week: Higher Ed Adapts? Dartmouth College eliminates undergraduate student loans and replaces them with scholarship grants Higher Ed Invests in Student Success Tech – Is It a ‘New Golden Age’ or Just Vague Talk? McKinsey: Technology is shaping learning in higher education Americans support student loan forgiveness, but would rather reign in college costs Livestreaming against a Teacher Shortage General Catal...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Patrick Ward is the Vice President of Marketing at Rootstrap, a digital studio that provides UX/UI design, app and web development and staff augmentation to a variety of companies, including major edtech companies like Masterclass and Emeritus. In this conversation, we’ll talk about the marketing and technology strategies that top edtech companies use to grow, as well as the future of alternative education. Recommended Resources Section4 Blog by Professor Scott Galloway Education ...
Jun 20, 2022•47 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Guest Charles Schilling , President, Enterprise Business - US, Europe & Canada @ Emeritus Topics this week: Teacher Shortages at the End of the School Year Overworked and underappreciated, teachers are burning out Cardona: Americans Shouldn't be Surprised by Teacher Shortage Work-Based Learning Google partners with Figma to bring design tools to student Chromebooks The Uncertain Pathway from Youth to a Good Job Metaverse/VR? What Will Learning in the Metaverse Look Like? ...
Jun 19, 2022•56 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Kavitta Ghai is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nectir , a communication platform for higher ed that uses instant chat to build a community in every class. Kavitta founded Nectir in 2018 during her time as a student at UC Santa Barbara, and has since raised over $2.25M to bring communication infrastructure to every campus and classroom out there. Her goal is to make quality education accessible to every student around the globe. Nectir is a communication platform for higher education th...
Jun 13, 2022•59 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Guest: Philip Cutler , CEO @ Paper Topics This Week: Metaversities With Money From Facebook, 10 Colleges Turn Their Campuses into ‘Metaversities’ Guild & Oprah Guild Education Reaches $4.4B Valuation As Labor Market Demands Continue – And A Downturn Threat Rises Apprenticeships Multiverse nabs $220M at a $1.7B valuation Sanoma in Italy Sanoma acquires Pearson’s local K-12 learning content Beyond Byju’s PhysicsWallah becomes unicorn with $100M Series A Cuemath Doubles its Valua...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Sarah Toms is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Wharton Interactive . She is a serious games expert and demonstrated thought leader in the educational technology field, fueled by a passion to find and develop innovative ways to make every learning environment active, engaging, more meaningful, and learner-centered. Sarah has built transformative gaming platforms for education from the ground up, like Wharton Interactive’s award winning Alternate Reality Courseware platform....
Jun 06, 2022•39 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Topics This Week: Edtech Funding Landscape Why Some Investors Say Edtech ‘Doom and Gloom’ Overhyped Unacademy tells employees to focus on profitability at all costs to ‘survive the winter’ College Enrollment College Enrollment Drops, Even as the Pandemic’s Effects Ebb Credential Train Is Leaving the Station—Get on Board If Students Had Their Way, Hybrid Learning Would Be Here To Stay Tech as Content Teaching AI to All Students ITE and Microsoft Collaborate to Equip over 4,000 Stud...
Jun 03, 2022•41 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Erin Mote is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of InnovateEDU , a non-profit that brings together leaders in education and technology to design and develop breakthrough models and tools to help ensure that all students graduate from high school ready to succeed in college and careers of their choosing. Erin is also the co-founder of Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School and has served in an advisory capacity to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, the Obama ...
May 30, 2022•59 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Guest: Jeffrey Cohen , CEO of FullBloom Topics This Week: Class Technologies Acquires Blackboard Collaborate $210M Deal PhilOnEdTech Take Metaverse Mercedes Bent on why Metaverse isn’t Over-hyped World Economic Forum: the future of education is in experiential learning & VR Virtual Is the New Reality for M.B.A. Students Invact Metaversity cancels first cohort Big Tech in Ed Facebook Working on a Udemy Competitor? Declining Enrollment at Public Schools NYT ‘Seismic Hit’ Take Fu...
May 27, 2022•1 hr•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Sophie Brickman is the author of the new book “Baby, Unplugged: One Mother’s Search for Balance, Reason and Sanity in the Digital Age” , all about how parents can try to navigate the world of technology. Sophie Brickman is a writer, reporter and editor based in New York City. Her journalistic work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, the Best Food Writing compilation, and the Best American Science W...
May 23, 2022•49 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text 1. Brutal Year for EdTech It’s Been A ‘Brutal’ Year for Public Education Companies 2. Major Breaking News: Byju’s in Talks to Buy Chegg or 2U India’s Byju’s Eyes Chegg or 2U as It Weighs US Acquisition Scott Galloway’s edtech startup, Section4, lays off a quarter of staff 3. Advertising and Marketing over Education in College Spend GAO Report on Online Program Managers Was Only a Start 4. K-12 Beat: California Community Schools California set to launch hundreds of community school...
May 21, 2022•41 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Louisa Rosenheck is the Director of Pedagogy at Kahoot! , one of the largest and most influential gamified edtech companies in the world. Louisa is also an ed tech designer with a passion for game-based learning and playful pedagogies, and teaches educational technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she earned her Master’s degree in the Harvard TIE program. Previously, she was the co-founder of MIT’s Playful Journeys lab, and a researcher at the MIT Education ...
May 16, 2022•50 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Topics This Week: Higher Ed’s Commodification and Decentralization Upskilling Trend Brings Coupons, ‘Flash Sales’ and Other Marketing Gimmicks edX’s Role After 2U Acquisition The Future Of Learning Is Radically Decentralized K-12 LAUSD makes 'historic' $50M investment to address digital divide Union pushback on Meta Twitter sale shows us why edtech companies should be accountable to schools TikTok May Be More Dangerous Than It Looks Workforce Development Unpaid Internshi...
May 13, 2022•50 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Jordan Adair is the Vice President of Product at Honorlock , an online proctoring platform dedicated to maintaining academic integrity. Jordan began his career in education as an elementary and middle school teacher. After transitioning into educational technology, he became focused on delivering products designed to empower instructors and improve the student experience. Honorlock is an assessment integrity service that combines AI & live test proctors to make online proctori...
May 10, 2022•42 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Guest: Ashley Andersen Zantop , CEO & Chairman of Cambium Learning Group Topics This Week: Google Grow Good? Training now free for 500 workers at every U.S. business Student Debt Cancellation Broad cancellation could backfire We should cancel student debt, but only for some Income caps + Online certificate programs Kinder-Crisis? Reading recovery's long-term effects ECD going downhill The pandemic erased a decade of public preschool gains Returning to Offline Vedantu slas...
May 06, 2022•49 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Eli Bildner is a Senior Director at Guild Education , where he helps to provide opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling, all funded by employers. Eli was also the co-Executive Director and co-founder of Rivet School , a non-profit which simplifies college by pairing an accredited online degree with real-world supports, such as a personal coach, financial aid, a community of peers, career planning, emergency funds, tech support and coworking spaces. Eli...
May 02, 2022•44 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Guest: Stratsi Kulinski , President of NewU University International Bubble? New Oriental Education , Unacademy , BYJU's Metaverse Meta , Fidelity , Athenaverse , Immerse , Moonhub Adult Learning Udemy's Global Workplace Learning Index Mental Health Data CDC report , Securly , LeanLab , SMART Technologies + Kooth Funding + M&A Zenda , Newton School , Blue Sky , Vivfy , 9jacodekids , Aztec Software Akadasia , Veranda ,...
Apr 29, 2022•51 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Mario Vasilescu is co-founder of Readocracy , an online learning platform that makes all the content you consume count. Readocracy includes a knowledge profile that quantifies and showcases your passions, private insights like a “Fitbit for your information diet”, and social features that reward people for being well-informed. With his team, they are on a mission to create a future where how we feed our minds matters just as much as how we feed our bodies. Mario is a robotics engi...
Apr 25, 2022•55 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Guest: Amar Kumar - Founder & CEO @ KaiPod Learning Topics: Online Tutoring Data + Efficacy Schools Pay Millions for Tutoring a16z START American Dynamism Three Year Degrees + Loans Black women are uniquely burdened by student debt Funding + M&A Galena , WeeCare , NeighborSchools , Handshake , SkillStorm, iNeuron, Jenzabar , Entourage...
Apr 22, 2022•46 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In this second part of the Postcards from ASU GSV mini-series, we talk to a wide variety of amazing Higher Ed and workforce entrepreneurs about their companies, what they're seeing at the ASU conference, and what they're seeing in the field at large. 1) Manny Smith , CEO of Edvisorly , a platform to support community college students who are transferring credit 2) Fadl , CEO of Nexford University , a next-generation, online university that costs $150 a month 3) John Katz...
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Svenia Busson is a global Learning Innovation explorer who has traveled through 19 countries to identify the most innovative technological teaching and learning practices, which she captured in her recent book, ‘Exploring the Future of Education’ . Svenia is also a major network builder in Europe, having co-founded both Edtech France, an industry association representing 400 startups in France, and the European Edtech Alliance, representing more than 2400 startups across Europe. S...
Apr 18, 2022•34 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Guest: Mehrad Yaghmai - Co-Founder of Qureos Qureos raises $3M to grow its learn to earn platform Topics This Week: Employers start to lighten debt load for learners Fund Debt-Free Education Programs End unpaid internships Free tuition lures low-income students K-12 schools in US face multiple challenges Staffing Shortages + Universal school meals 1 in 4 superintendents likely to quit soon Why American Teens Are So Sad California K-12 enrollment plunges LearnPlatform releases Top ...
Apr 15, 2022•57 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text In this special episode, Edtech Insiders hits the road and travels to San Diego for the ASU GSV conference, the biggest and most influential Edtech conferences in the US. Rather than a single interview, this episode contains no less than EIGHT short 'hallway' interviews with all variety of amazing Edtech and education founders and influencers. This episode focuses on innovators in the PK12 space; part two will focus on Higher Ed and workforce innovators. 1. John King Jr....
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text Beth Porter started her career in the mathematics classroom before moving into edtech with Mathsoft and Pearson, where she was a VP of software product management. She was an VP of product at Edx in the heady MOOC days of 2014-2015, has consulted, taught at MIT and Boston University, and is most recently, the co-founder of two Edtech companies- Esme Learning, where she is the President and COO and Riff Analytics, which was acquired by Esme Education in December 2021. Esme Learning...
Apr 11, 2022•49 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast Send us a text On this week in Edtech, we are delighted to have guest host Matthew Tower to cover the top stories of the week: Topics This Week: EdTech @ ASU+GSV Ed On The Edge: Deborah Quazzo On About What To Expect At ASU+GSV 2022 What’s the Future of ETS and Standardized Testing? A New Leader for ETS - Amit Sevak MIT Reinstates SAT/ACT Requirement Crumbling School Infrastructure This school wasn't built for the new climate reality. Yours may not be either Pods, Microschools and Tutors By...
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