Monday, March 26, 2018

RPP #163: Academia Beyond Millennials with Bryan Alexander


    Duration: 47:35
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    Saturday, February 24, 2018

    RPP #162: Starfish - Interview with Howard Bell


    • Interview with Howard Bell, Senior Vice President of Higher Education Student Success and the General Manager of Starfish at Hobsons. We discuss their Starfish Enterprise Success Platform including Early Alert, Connect, and Degree Planner, and how it helps scale student support initiatives in a way that enables students to engage with the campus community and achieve their academic goals. We also discuss:
      • Howard Bell
      SVP Hobsons
      • Interface with the LMS and SIS
      • Automatic flags and progress surveys
      • Predictive analytics framework
      • Student points of contact
      • New Degree Planner features
      • Partnering with student networks
      • Measuring return on investment
    • Links to Related Podcasts
      • RPP #101: Starfish Retention Solutions: Interview with David Yaskin (March 2012)
      • RPP #158: StudyTree - Interview with Ethan Keiser
      • RPP #159: AEFIS - Interview with Mustafa Sualp
      • Podsafe Music Selection 
        • "Run" from the new age piano album "Lines Build Walls" by Ehren Starks
      Duration: 38:58
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      Wednesday, January 24, 2018

      RPP #161: USciences eLearning 3.0 Conference



      • Rod discusses the new USciences eLearning 3.0 Conference, including
        • Background and history of this conference in it's 16th year
        • What is eLearning 3.0
        • Keynote Speaker, futurist Dr. Bryan Alexander
        • Panel on the Future of Higher Education including Dr. Alexander, Dr. Bobbe Baggio, Dr. Paul Katz (USciences President), Dr. Ken Hartman (past President of Drexel eLearning, Inc.) and Dr. Rod Murray.
        • Program schedule and registration
        • Social networking hour with craft beer provided by the USciences Brewing Certificate Program 
        • Sponsors
            • Platinum: AEFIS
            • Gold: Practice, Ferrilli
            • Silver: Blackboard, DubLabs, Evolve IP, Labster
            • Bronze: Examsoft, SixRedMarbles, Glisser, PADLA, StudyTree, MapleSoft, Mersive, Mediasite
        • Podsafe music selection
          • Vivaldi: Concerto No. 4 in G Minor “Winter” (Allegro movement) from The Four Seasons by the American Baroque Orchestra. 
          Duration: 14:09
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          Thursday, December 21, 2017

          RPP #160: Lovoco - Interview with Calvin Shum


          • Interview with Calvin Shum, CEO of Lovoco. Lovoco offers accessibility, communication, and educational solutions with proprietary speech and translation AI resulting in instantaneous bilingual subtitling. He demonstrated German translation of our live interview! We discuss:
            • How speech tech improves accessibility and ADA Compliance for live and recorded
              Calvin Shum, CEO
              lectures
            • How the automated polylingual stenographer enables: 
              • visual aid for caption readers
              • translations for global communicators
              • higher learning outcomes for students
            • How their social mission donates a system to a local primary or secondary school of your choice
            • Podsafe music selection
              • "Jingle Bells" by Natalie Brown - soulful vocalist/songwriter with a dynamic, multi-octave vocal range
            Duration: 28:03
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