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Week 10: Big Data and Learning Analytics
Data science is a growing field that uses big data analytics, machine learning and data mining to help improve a variety of industries. Educational services is one such industry that is expanding its use of learning analytics to improve the quality of teaching and learning. Learning analytics is already widely used in higher education to […]
A1 Analyst Report: ReUp Education
Are you interested in supporting and investing in leading-edge ed-tech entrepreneurs that seek to transform learning by improving access to education? ReUp Education, a San Francisco based start-up, partners with American universities to help bring former students back to campus through targeted academic success coaching and data analytics. Using a mix of machine learning, predictive […]
Greg Smith – CEO and Co-Founder of Thinkific
Thinkific (www.thinkific.com) offers a powerful, all-in-one platform that enables entrepreneurs and educators to create, market, sell and deliver their own online courses. According to Thinkific’s website its mission is no less than “to revolutionize the way people learn and earn online by giving them the tools they need to turn their expertise into a sustainable […]
Nitesh Goel, Founder and CEO of Padlet
Original Post by “Karen” on June 3, 2019 Nitesh Goel is the founder and CEO of Padlet. Padlet is an online bulletin board and it can be used to invite participants to create and to collaborate by sharing their ideas, as well as including images, videos, links, and documents in the posts. Padlet is a […]
HeadCheck
Kerry Costello, the co-founder of HeadCheck is a coach, athlete herself and MBA graduate from the UBC Sauder’s Robert H. Lee Graduate School. After witnessing many career changing injuries, she recognized a need for better brain health management to help ensure athletes do not worsen existing injuries.  Costello joined forces with kinesiology PhD candidate Harrison […]
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report from Bond Capital
May 31, is like Christmas eve for tech nerds and tech investors. On this day (or the next) each year since 1995 (with the exception of 2020) Mary Meeker, a partner at the venture capital firm Bond Capital has delivered a 150 page to 300+ page annual Internet Trends Report on the current internet market […]
Hello Team 522!
“Be open to adjustments. There’s nothing about this current moment in history that allows for stubbornness.” ~ Unknown My name is Jamie and I am an academic advisor in The UBC Sauder School of Business. I have been with Sauder for over 15 years and I have witnessed some dramatic changes in how we deliver […]