ben zaporozan
A3: workshop
workshop is a set of application capabilities that provides space for hands-on, experiential learning in small working groups. Working in for-profit higher education publishing for over a decade has provided me with the opportunity to work with and network with dozens of authors and hundreds of customers including instructors, students, and professional associations. An emerging […]
Education Venture Analyst Report: TopHat
My EVA Report puts the spotlight on Top Hat, a private company founded in 2009 by Mike Silgadze (CEO) and Mohsen Shahini (CAO) in Waterloo, Ontario. Top Hat received $200,000 funding in 2010 from an angel investor for their web-based “clicker” solution for multiple-choice question delivery and has since then become renowned for raising capital […]
Jason Field – Founder & CEO of BrainStation
Jason Field is the founder and CEO of BrainStation, a company that offers digital skills training for corporate professionals with in-person and online certification programs in Toronto, Vancouver, Boston, and New York. While trying to learn the basics of web development while working full time, he couldn’t find an institution that offered the end-to-end product […]
Hello from Ben Zaporozan
I have been working at Pearson Education Canada in Toronto for the past twelve years, mainly focused on digital content development, authoring tool evaluation and staff training, and the end-to-end uses and abuses of learning applications and learning management systems used in Higher Education. My main areas of interest are with adaptive learning technologies, learning […]