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A Postmortem on Bloomberg 2020’s Marketing and Campaign Strategy: Ratified
Ratified is a radio show hosted by Voice of B2B Daniel Litwin, exploring the intersection of business and policy in long-form fashion. On this episode of Ratified, we’re getting our feet wet with election season content. At the time of release, the Democratic presidential primary is all but settled. Barring some massive shake-up, Joe…
The Cost To Fix Education’s Digital Divide
The problem of digital equity in US public school systems has been wrestled with for decades. Maybe it took a global pandemic to finally solve it. The analyst group Funds For Learning crunched the numbers last week and breaks down how much it will cost to put an Internet-connected device into the hands of every…
EdTech Leaders Search For Answers Amid Pandemic
As the world comes to grips with its new COVID-based realities, the business of education is convulsing. Schools and universities race to save the spring semester, while tech companies—from giants like Google and Cisco to thousands of other software and curriculum services—have jumped to their aid with remote learning solutions. In just a few weeks,…
Augmented Reality in Remote Classrooms
During the COVID-19 pandemic, remote education has forced teachers to use every tool in their toolbox. But augmented reality, which allows both visual and hands-on instruction from any setting, remains out-of-reach for most educators. In order to use AR today, entertainment studios and big companies employ 3D artists, computer programmers and many other highly specialized…
Applying Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction with Max H. Cropper: Quicksilver
Training design and delivery is often relegated to a top performer who’s good with PowerPoint. From a cost savings perspective, this is an effective approach and many organizations have made do with pseudo-training designers. But, how is quality of learning affected if the training designer isn’t familiar with the scientific evidence on how…
Higher Education’s To-Do’s After Covid-19
The coronavirus pandemic, like the Great Recession before it, has driven endowments and fundraising down and financial aid costs up. But the pandemic has also forced colleges to shutter their campuses, send students home and convert classes into hastily generated forms of distance learning. Research has slowed or stopped because faculty cannot access their offices,…
Online Learning Minute: Defining Corporate Learning Culture and Its Benefits
A culture of intellectual inquiry can help companies and their employees adapt to changes in the industry. Host Brian Runo defined corporate learning culture and discussed its benefits on this episode of MarketScale’s Online Learning Minute. Differentiating between HR courses administered when an employee starts a job and an overall culture of learning, Runo…
The Edge & Re-Architecting the Network
The United States’ internet has been put to the test over the last six weeks, as almost the entire country has moved to streaming, learning and communicating from one wireless network. This increase in data need begs the question – what will our Internet look like as we move into a connected future post-pandemic? “Not…
A Music Educator’s Perspective on COVID-19’s Higher Education Impact: I Don’t Care
Join Kevin Stevenson as he discusses the impact of COVID-19 on higher education with Dr. David Toledo, Director of Worship Studies and Associate Professor of Music at California Baptist University. Dr. Toledo discusses how Cal Baptist has implemented online learning through an existing platform and the challenges of teaching vocalists, instrumentalists and conducting students…
CodeAcademy Provides 100,000 Furloughed and Fired Workers Access to Premium Coding Courses
The coronavirus pandemic has had drastic effects on the world’s economy and in particular, the United States. Last week, the Labor Department reported that more than 22 million unemployment claims in the last four weeks, essentially wiping out all of the jobs created since the last financial crisis in 2008. To help the newly unemployed,…
Coursera Offers 100 Free Courses through May 31st
Online-learning site Coursera is offering 100 classes for free from now through May 31, 2020, to support access to online education for the one-third of people around the world who are currently under lockdown to prevent spreading the new coronavirus. The free courses span many categories, including mental health and well-being, career development, cloud technology, language…
The Coronavirus Pandemic Raises Structural Questions About Our Higher Education System
COVID-19 has made all students homeschoolers. In the short term, the pandemic has been one of the greatest challenges educators and administrators have faced, transitioning students to a digital-only platform. The big picture is hazier, but potentially a more structural shift. As schools and educational institutions invest in digital tools and platforms, and students feel…
MakerBot and 3D Printing Joining the Fight Against COVID-19
Like many companies during this unprecedented crisis, MakerBot is leveraging its unique capabilities to support the frontline workers fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic. The company, which provides 3D printers for educators and professionals, is helping leverage that innovative 3D-printing technology to join in that effort, and MakerBot Vice President, Engineering Dave Veisz and Vice…
COVID19 Spurs Interest In Data Science Courses
We’re all amateur epidemiologists with time on our hands. With that reality in mind, here’s a look at some of the options to bolster your data science knowhow as we all pick through COVID-19 data sets and models. These courses had high ratings on various platforms. Some are free and others charge. In addition, data…
The LSU Online Learning & Continuing Education Team Thrives With Upskilling and Re-Skilling
The team at LSU Online & Continuing Education is not only familiar with change … they thrive on it. From providing continuing education programs for more than 95 years to launching fully online degree programs in the last decade, the organization is adept at helping a wide range of non-traditional students improve their lives with…
Melissa Handy’s Brilliant Maker Mindset: What School Could Be in Hawai’i
On this episode of What School Could Be in Hawai’i, host Josh Reppun sits down with Melissa Handy, Education Technology Director at Le Jardin Academy, a medium sized independent school in Hawaiʻi. She is the Past President of the Hawaiʻi Society for Technology in Education (HSTE), a champion robotics coach, a makerspace expert, an International…
Online Learning Minute: Game Based Learning
Video game popularity has soared in the last decade, as billions around the globe gravitate toward the captivating activity. But video games aren’t just for entertainment. They can also be educational. On today’s Online Learning Minute with host Brian Runo, we learn what game-based learning is and how it differs from gamification. The math-based…
How to Integrate Metal Detectors into School Safety Programs
The safety of students on school campuses across the nation and globe is top-of-mind for educators, parents and officials. There are a variety of potential ways to help keep these spaces safe for those they serve, though one that’s existed for decades is now making its way to the forefront of school safety – metal…
Learning in the Workflow: Quicksilver
The success of organizations operating in a dynamic and rapidly changing economy is often linked to its ability to react quickly and build employee capacity. Many organizations are discovering that transitioning from traditional training approaches to “Workflow Learning” is improving their training outcomes. So, can learning in the workflow make training more nimble and improve…
The Challenges of a Micro-Mobility Startup: Roads, Rails, & Rides
The Microtransit industry is a burgeoning new component of the transportation landscape. In this latest episode of Roads, Rails, & Rides host Jeb Morris sits down with Gene Watson of dtmac.matters, Macon Georgia’s Micro-Mobility advocate, to discuss the various challenges presented with a microtransit service startup. Macon, GA is a mid-sized city in the heart…
Bridging the Gap Between Theoretical Capabilities and Real-World Applications for 3D Printing: TCEA 2020
On this episode of MarketScale’s EdTech podcast, host JW Marshall was joined by MakerBot Vice President of Education Dottie Stewart at TCEA 2020. As the leading 3D printer in the in the K-12 ecosystem, MakerBot is peeling back the curtain on the real world applications of the new technology for students to discover. Stewart discusses how people…
Propelling: Microdrones’ Rising Growth in Australasia
Syamsul Bahri, Australasia Regional Sales Manager for Microdrones, started out selling surveying equipment, then working in the mining industry. Bahri knows firsthand how useful drones can be in those businesses. Now, he works for Microdrones, and Bahri came on Propelling to talk about Microdrones’ rising growth in the Australasia market since its entry to…
How Schools Around the Globe are Approaching eLearning During the COVID Pandemic: Quicksilver
On this week’s episode of Quicksilver: The eLearning Alchemist, Daniel Litwin, the Voice of B2B, fills in for Clint Clarkson to do a quick analysis of how schools around the globe are implementing elearning solutions during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s clearly a time of crisis for the world, and as more large buildings and…
Online Learning Minute: How Gamification Increases Student Engagement in Online Learning
Gamification can increase student engagement in online learning. On this episode of Marketscale’s Online Learning Minute, host Brian Runo discussed how to gamify courses effectively. Drawing a distinction between creating a game and fitting a course into it versus creating a course and implementing gamification theories, Runo suggested the latter. For example, Runo described…
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