RPP #197: Melvin Hines of Upswing

Interview with Melvin Hines, CEO, and Co-Founder of Upswing. "A virtual assistant and student services platform to reach, relate to, and retain your non-traditional students." We discuss:

• Melvin's Background

  

  Melvin Hines, CEO

• History of Upswing
• Great disparities in education 
• Reach, Relate, and Retain
• Reach: answer questions via text chatbot
• Relate: connect to campus or Upswing human resources via web conferencing to provide support and tutoring on more than 400 topics
• Retain: collect analytics to identify students at greatest risk   
• Result: 15% reduction in dropouts each year
• Unique chatbot technology integrates with campus calendars to schedule web conferences with campus and Upswing staff and tutors
• Support for mental health and wellness 
• Support for faculty     
• Changes due to the Pandemic 
  
  

• Podsafe music selection
• Autumn Day by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

Duration: 37:48

RPP #196: Dan Avida of Engageli

Interview with Dan Avida, CEO, and Co-Founder of Engageli. "Engageli's digital learning platform
enables higher-ed institutions to provide educators and learners with an active, social, collaborative, inclusive and engaging learning experience."  We discuss: 

Dan Avida, CEO

• Background of founders including Dan's wife Daphne Koller,
  co-founder of Coursera
• Works in class or online (synchronous or asynchronous) and hybrid
• No need for breakout rooms
• Student "table" with the group of peers: "Learn with Friends"
• Students can talk at the same time as the instructor
• In-class students log in so they can take notes and capture instructors screen
• In-class student presses button to ask questions - other mics are muted 
• Polls and quizzes embedded into presentations
• Recordings, notetaking, captioning built into the platform
• Integrated with the LMS using LTI
• Works with Chromebooks - no app to download
• Video is not re-streamed  
• Supports thousands of students in a class using TAs  
• Extensive analytics to detect students at risk 
• AI and ML coming in a future release
  

• Podsafe music selection
• Hachiko by The Kyoto Connection
  
  

Duration: 40:15

RPP #184: Bongo - Interview with Josh Kamrath

• Interview with Josh Kamrath, CEO of Bongo. Bongo offers Video Assignments and a Virtual Classroom that power experiential learning, assessment, and feedback. We discuss:
• Josh's background and evolution of Bongo

  

  Josh Kamrath, CEO
• How did Bongo get started
• Not just web conferencing
• Putting knowledge into action
• Structured video assignment workflows 
• Peer review and assessment  
• Auto-analysis using AI and machine learning  
• Integration with the LMS
• How they are different from competitors
• Sentiment analysis in the development pipeline
  
• Podsafe music selection
• Aurora Borealis Expedition by Asher Fulero

Duration: 37:17

RPP #112: Citrix Online: Interview with Max James

• Interview: Max James, National Sales Manager for Education at Citrix Online 
• We discuss their various web conferencing products:
• GoToMeeting
• GoToWebinar 



"Online Meetings Made Easy"

• GoToTraining
• New features and functions:
• HD Faces
• Blackboard and Moodle integration
• Recording and Hosting
• Other Citrix products:
• GoToSchool
• Podio
• ShareFile
• Podsafe Music Selection 
• New Age Piano: "Lines Build Walls" by Ehren Starks

Duration: 22:31

RPP #48: National Distance Learning Week Interview: Ken Hartman

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• National Distance Learning Week
• The National Distance Learning Week has been devoted to educating everyone on the benefits, growth, opportunities, and developments made in distance learning.  People have come together from all across the country to share their ideas as well as showcase their achievements so far in the field of distance learning.
• November 12 - 16, 2007
  
• Interview: Dr. Ken Hartman, NDLW National Committee Chair and Academic Director, Drexel Online

• Podsafe Music Selection from Magnatune
• "Run" from the new age piano album "Lines Build Walls" by Ehren Starks

Duration: 27:52

RPP #47: PodCamp Philly and Podsafe McCartney

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• PodCamp Philly
• Hosted at Drexel University
• September 7, 8 and 9, 2007

• Podsafe Music Selection from the Podsafe Music Network
• "Maybe I'm Amazed" by Blake Morgan who's successes as a recording artist, as well as a producer, have paired him with Lenny Kravitz, Lesley Gore, Mike Errico, Phil Ramone, Terry Manning, and others. This specially licensed podsafe remake of the McCartney classic has recently topped the charts on the iTunes Music Store.
  

Duration: 11:40