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Jonathan Shar: Barnes & Noble Education, President ➡️ CEO
Anastasia Moshkina: Startuplab ➡️ No Isolation, Head of Finance
Garrett Broom: Basepath ➡️ Strata Decision Technology, Account Executive, Higher Education
Erin Priddle: Peekapak ➡️ Education Perfect, Senior Account Executive
Kipp Graham: Wiley Edge ➡️ General Assembly, Director of Delivery
The Big 10:
🎙️ Ep 13 · Ed on the Edge | Start-Up U: Leaders From Belhaven University on the GSV MBA | Dash Media
If you can’t love yourself, who can you love? We are very proud that the GSV MBA in partnership with Belhaven University was recognized as one of the top 10 online MBAs for entrepreneurship by Forbes. Learning by doing has always been the most effective way to really master something. Are great entrepreneurs born or are they made? The GSV MBA helps mold leaders…and to graduate the program, you launch a business.
Newsflash…students, teachers, and parents increasingly are using generative AI as a learning tool. The only thing here that is shocking is that everybody isn’t using it. 30 years ago when the Internet came on the scene, there were multiple reasons why the learning community was skeptical…access to technology and the Internet was limited, most teachers were not Digital Natives, and online learning products were not compelling. Today, it’s a very different story with a very different adoption curve.
Is AI Disrupting Higher Ed? How Do I Balance Talent With Passion? And Scott’s Approach to Charitable Giving | The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway
The ever increasingly ubiquitous Scott Galloway gives his takes on three hot topics…#1) ChatGPT EDU and how it's a great tool for brainstorming and awful for actually creating interesting writing. Galloway argues that perhaps the biggest impact it will have is providing middle and low-income kids access to a high-quality tutor for (essentially) free. #2) Passion vs. Skillset. He points out that people are increasingly passionate about things they are good at. #3) Charitable giving. He calls it the “Mother of all good problems to have” and he has a point…giving is living.
They don’t ring a bell when an industry reaches a bottom…but the journalists do write articles saying there is no end in sight. From a funding and valuation standpoint, the Edtech sector is clearly on its back, and it’s tempting for people to extrapolate the immediate past to the foreseeable future. Fundamentals ultimately drive enterprise value and capital flows to where the growth is. In a Knowledge Economy and a Global Marketplace, what you know – your education – makes the difference for an individual, company, and country.
Education Industry Yoda, and our friend Tom Vander Ark highlights the convergence of two powerful trends and the future of learning. The first trend is that members of Gen Z increasingly want to be entrepreneurs, and the second is work-based learning. Riipen is a platform that helps 640 Higher Education institutions connect students with employer projects. Media amplifies the student voice and is a powerful way to be included in the conversation about the future.
Digital Promise continues its important work on helping the learning ecosystem gain 21st-century skills to thrive. (See our interview with Digital Promise’s CEO Jean Claude Brizard here). AI Literacy builds on its foundational predecessors of digital readiness, media readiness, and computational thinking. Digital Promise captures four of our Seven C’s of core learning skills – communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity. Something tells me that providing “AI Readiness” classes will be a pretty good business for the next handful of years.
There has been a steady drumbeat of the disillusionment of the value of a college education and the corresponding drop in enrollment…along with a big uptick in the interest in “dirty jobs”, with vocational schools seeing a 16% surge in students last year alone. What’s a new phenomenon is how social media has made jobs like plumbing and electricians “cool” and lucrative…not just from six-figure salaries but also material influencer dollars.
Money talks when business squawks. Thanks to Noble Laureate professor James Heckman, we’ve long known the greatest return on investment in education is preschool. Despite that, society has been slow to react with innovative solutions. Now, business is feeling the pain and my Spidey sense tells me it's a good time for entrepreneurs who want to make a difference in the World of pre-K.
Philadelphia Public Schools have been a disaster for many, many years. Last year alone, Philadelphia lost another 10% of its student population – this is not a coincidence (or even unique) amongst large urban public schools. What’s encouraging to us is that the new Mayor of the City of Brotherly Love, Charelle Parker, strikes us as a woman on a mission.
So you can even get a Masters's Degree in a program focused on “degrowth”…the discipline of intentionally scaling down overdeveloped economies like the United States and Europe. Breaking News….the U.S. and Europe, led by California, are already accomplishing this without any help from freshly minted graduates. Degrowth is Dedumb.