Matt Alex, Co-Founder and Partner of Beyond Academics, joins this episode of Illuminate Higher Education to talk about transforming higher education. Matt oversees Beyond Academics’ Future of Work and Digital Transformation practices.

Matt begins by discussing the difference between “repaving” digitized processes and effecting true transformation. He shares his goal with Beyond Academics: finding the right transformation at the right time.

You’ll also learn why Beyond Academics focuses on outcomes for students, faculty, and staff; the importance of personalized learning; and why every institution must define its value to market if it is to prepare for the learners of the future.

After you listen, connect with Matt Alex on LinkedIn or Twitter @FutureXHigherEd. Learn more about Beyond Academics by visiting BeyondAcademics.com.

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In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education, N2N Services CEO Kiran Kodithala speaks with Ben Nelson, founder and chancellor at Minerva University.

Ben is a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education through methods of learning that help students better retain the information they take in. 

The educational learning structure should be divided into three separate areas: the acquisition of information, experiential learning, and application in real world contexts.

The way that most classes are conducted, people generally don't recall what happened in their classes after they've finished a test or assignment that they studied for.

Memory comes for free when you deeply process information and apply it. When you make a user association, you retain it. Your mind doesn't remember information because you were tested on it — it remembers the information that you engage with.

Despite the fact that Minerva University is unique and there's currently no other system of learning like it, the components that make it unique aren't that difficult. Now, they require a lot of work and different minds, and years of tuning, so the difficulty is actually the adoption and thinking through it. 

Listen to today's episode to learn exactly how Ben thinks through these learning processes.

Connect with Ben Nelson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bennelson3/

Learn more about Minerva University at https://www.minerva.edu/

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Dr. Eloy Oakley, Chancellor at California Community Colleges, joins this episode of Illuminate Higher Education to discuss how community colleges are different from traditional institutions. They are uniquely suited to create equitable access to education for students of all backgrounds.

In this episode, Eloy contrasts the selective nature of traditional four-year institutions with broad access community colleges. He argues that a selective approach to admissions prevents education from being a democratizing force in society—one that actually grants students equitable experiences.

Eloy also addresses the growing role of individualized learning paths and increased exposure to college-level courses beginning in high school. He also discusses how technologies and robust systems of data collection and analysis will help facilitate an educational experience that leads to social and economic mobility.

Connect with Dr. Eloy Oakley on LinkedIn and Twitter @EloyOakley. Visit CCCCO.edu for more about California Community Colleges.

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Anant Agarwal is the Chief Open Education Officer of 2U/edX. He was the Founder and CEO of edX, an online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT. Anant taught the first edX course on circuits and electronics from MIT, which drew 155,000 students from 162 countries.

He has served as the director of CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He is a successful serial entrepreneur, having co-founded several companies including Tilera Corporation, which created the Tile multicore processor, and Virtual Machine Works.

Anant won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, the Yidan Prize for Education Development, and MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching. He holds a Guinness World Record for the largest microphone array, and is an author of the textbook "Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits."

His work on Organic Computing was selected by Scientific American as one of 10 World-Changing Ideas in 2011, and he was named in Forbes' list of top 15 education innovators in 2012. Anant is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of ACM.

He hacks on WebSim, which is an online circuits laboratory in his spare time. Anant holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's from IIT Madras.

00:00-02:21-Introduction

02:22-05:52-What shaped Anant's Journey

05:53-10:15- What did Anant see as a difference between different educational paradigms

10:16-14:37- What is the difference between the three modalities of teaching

14:38-17:59- What support does a student get in a massive open online course

18:00-21:52- How to help a student who is struggling to learn

21:53-26:23- The merger of edX and 2U

26:24-29:06- Motivating the students

29:07-34:42- Affordability

34:43-37:34- Are there opportunities to merge online and immersive programs for things that require real work areas

37:35-40:39- What inspired Anant to start edX 

40:40-43:42- How is Anant doing on his goal of educating a billion people?

43:43-45:37- What drives Anant to focus himself on education and what leads him to focus on creating a learning environment?

45:38-49:32- Will traditional 4-year colleges will be open to the idea of separate teaching from learning?

49:33-53:13- Trends in future education

53:14-54:11- Closing

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Originally from Minneapolis, Professor Jed Macosko has lived in Minsk, Princeton, Belfast, Tashkent, Chicago, Copenhagen, Moscow, Albuquerque, and Strasbourg. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from MIT and earned his doctorate at UC Berkeley. After a postdoctoral research stint with Howard Hughes Medical Investigator Carlos J. Bustamante, he worked with Nobel laureate Kary Mullis at a start-up in Irvine, California than with Professor David Keller at the University of New Mexico. Currently, Jed is a professor of Physics at Wake Forest University. He continues his two decades of research on the mechanics of cells and molecular motors while teaching undergraduates the basics of big data and virtual reality. His lab has received millions of dollars in outside funding, and he is a contributing author of several books. His work has been cited thousands of times, and his parents have been developed in the biotech sector. One of his most fulfilling intellectual projects so far has been at AcademicInfluence.com where he serves as Research Director and Chief Public Liaison. 

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Lawrence founded Enrollment Rx in 2008 after he identified the growing need to improve upon traditional CRM technologies in the Higher Ed sector. Lawrence is committed to helping colleges and universities maximize the Salesforce Education Cloud.

Lawrence earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Science Degree in Electronic Commerce from National Louis University.

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Dr. Joshua Moon-Johnson (he/him) is an award-winning author, activist, and educator with nearly two decades of experience as an educational administrator and consultant. He serves as a Dean of Student Services & Title IX Coordinator at American River College and as a Managing Partner at PMJ Consulting, LLC. Joshua has published multiple books; his first book, Beyond Surviving: From Religious Oppression to Queer Activism was a #1 Best-seller on Amazon.com for Gay & Lesbian Activism and was ranked #2 on Book Authority’s 25 Best-Selling LGBT Activism Books of All Time. Joshua's other books include, Authentic Leadership, Queer People of Color in Higher Education, and his newest book, Queer & Trans Advocacy in the Community College, will be released in 2022. Joshua previously served as the Assistant Dean and Director of the Multicultural Student Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as the Director of the LGBT Center at the UC-Santa Barbara. Joshua received a doctorate in higher education and LGBT studies from Northern Illinois University, a master's degree in student affairs and diversity from Binghamton University, and a master’s degree in Marketing Analysis from the University of Alabama. Joshua has served as a board member or in a leadership position for multiple educational and social justice organizations, including NASPA (Student Affairs in Higher Education) MultiRacial Knowledge Community and Asian Pacific Islander Knowledge Community, as the Vice President of the Board for the Sacramento LGBT Community Center, and as a board member and lead for the Equity Committee with the Association of California Community College Administrators (ACCCA). Joshua is from Mississippi, but is happy to call Sacramento, California his home. 

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As a graduate assistant at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Kiran Kodithala worked closely with the enterprise architecture, functional stakeholders, quality insurance teams and others to integrate systems at three campuses. During this time, Kodithala realized that most institutions struggle with common integration issues to connect student information systems with parking, housing, identity, and access management systems. 

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Roger Sands is a co-founder and CEO of Wyebot Inc. Roger has 17 years of executive management positions in successful networking startups and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Wyebot, Roger was the Business Line Manager for Hewlett-Packard’s WW WLAN business growing it from #6 to #2 market share. Roger joined HP via the acquisition of Colubris Networks a wireless startup where he held a number of executive positions including co-CEO and was instrumental in the HP acquisition. Prior to Colubris, he was a GM at Accton Technology founding the enterprise wireless business and building it to #3 market share via 6 strategic partnerships. Roger also held senior management positions at 3com, USRobotics and Bytex Corporation. Roger holds a Masters and Bachelors in Electrical Engineering at Northeastern University.

Understanding Internet Dependency Part 1: https://www.illuminatehighereducation.com/episodes/51

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Ben Nelson is the Founder of Minerva, and a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent more than 10 years at Snapfish, where he helped build the company from startup to the world’s largest personal publishing service. With over 42 million transactions across 22 countries, nearly five times greater than its closest competitor, Snapfish is among the top e-commerce services in the world. Serving as CEO from 2005 through 2010, Nelson began his tenure at Snapfish by leading the company’s sale to Hewlett Packard for $300 million.

Prior to joining Snapfish, Nelson was President and CEO of Community Ventures, a network of locally branded portals for American communities. 

Nelson’s passion for reforming undergraduate education was first sparked at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he received a B.S. in Economics. After creating a blueprint for curricular reform in his first year of school, Nelson went on to become the chair of the Student Committee on Undergraduate Education (SCUE), a pedagogical think tank that is the oldest and only non-elected student government body at the University of Pennsylvania.

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