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Alejandro Juárez Crawford is the co-founder & CEO of RebelBase brings 20+ years experience as a consultant, educator, and entrepreneur developing programs, tools and methodology that bring bottom-up innovation to companies, schools, and communities.   Eliza Edge, is the Head of learning Content and Communications at RebelBase she brings extensive experience enabling hundreds of early stage startup...

In this episode of Illuminate Higher Education , Kiran Kodithala, CEO of N2N Services , conducts a fascinating conversation with Dr. Emad Rahim, genocide survivor and refugee, about educating with empathy and grit, and what that entails, including technology for a hands-on approach. The end goal: Creating a more meaningful and rich learning experience.  Dr. Emad Rahim is one to talk! Not only is h...

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...

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 acquisiti...

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 co...

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...

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-...

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 El...

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 Oppre...

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, identit...

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 ex...

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-c...

Kim Duckworth is a graduate of Stanford University where she received her BA in Communications Journalism. She was the first woman in her family to attend college. She worked in Sales and Marketing for IBM in Silicon Valley and White Plains, NY for over 10 years. She has called Arizona her home for the last 25 years. Currently, Kim is an independent college admissions coach and member of the Natio...

Sebastian Barron works with Gov. Kemp's office on outreach and community engagement efforts in the state of Georgia.   This episode is brought to you by N2N’s Illuminate App, The iPaaS for Higher Education. Learn more at https://illuminateapp.com/web/higher-education/ Subscribe and listen to more episodes at IlluminateHigherEducation.com Contact Sebastian Barron: sebastian.barron@georgia.gov More...

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...

David is the Founder and CEO of DegreeSight. An engineer by education and with a career in product management helping Fortune 100 companies go through digital transformations, he brings everything to the table to help universities and students succeed in a changing environment. And as a father of two young boys, he knows that nothing is more important than the future. This episode is brought to yo...

John Katzman is the founder and CEO of Noodle. Prior to getting it right, he founded and ran 2U, which is also involved in online learning, and The Princeton Review, which helps students find, get into, and pay for higher ed.   Katzman is the co-author of five books, and has served as a director of several for- and non-profits, including Carnegie Learning, Renaissance Learning, the National Associ...

Vielka Hoy is a twenty-year public, private and collegiate career educator turned college consultant. She has guided thousands of students in identifying “best fit” collegiate institutions to match their strengths and needs. After perfecting her formula, Hoy wanted to make her process available to students and educational institutions across the country. From 1999 to 2017, Vielka held teaching pos...

As the President & CEO of the National Student Clearinghouse, Rick Torres believes that we can begin to aggressively address our nation's education-to-workforce challenges with reliable, verified data and information in today's ever evolving digitalized education and technical environments. The Clearinghouse provides trusted and private access to comprehensive academic data and other learning reco...

Rags-to-riches author and CEO Gene Rice and his high school English teacher daughter Courtney Bejgrowicz, share critical information alongside professional and personal successes and failures to demystify adulthood. They are the co-authors of the book “Grad to Grown-Up” which teaches everything you didn’t learn in school but all you need to know to launch your personal and professional life. The f...

Dr. Emad Rahim is a dynamic educator, higher education administrator, and business leader, with an outstanding talent for making rapid business assessments of diverse situational challenges, and developing and leading the resulting action plan. A proactive leader that is skilled in developing strategic business partnerships and securing sponsorships.  Dr. Rahim earned an AACSB Bridge Post-Doctorat...

For the past two years, the pandemic has disrupted our kids' classrooms, as well as our homes, offices, and professional workspaces. Our general lives have been upended in innumerable ways—some obvious and others subtle. What does it take to be a parent or an educator now? What does child-rearing require in such an uncertain climate? What does it mean to raise kids well? In this ‘fireside chat’ se...

One of the best-known chatbots deployed by universities is IBM Watson. IBM Watson uses a technology referred to as Watson Conversation Service. Universities can use it for  expediting student responses, downloading and  providing documents, and answering subject-specific questions. An AI  chatbot can provide immediate answers to library requested as well as signing up for new classes or getting st...

Jennifer draws on over 15 years of hands-on experience as a senior manager in humanitarian response. She has developed strategies for fostering innovation during emergency response, in challenging volatile contexts, always with complex challenges. Jenny has pioneered initiatives that break from conventional innovation models and enable global scale. She excels in bringing together diverse groups f...

63% of students unable to pay for classes/educational expenses due to pandemic-related changes to income canceled all classes. Over 1,100 colleges and universities in all 50 states canceled in-person classes during the pandemic. Spring 2021 undergraduate enrollment is down 5.9% compared to Spring 2020. How did our understanding of student success, student learning, and student engagement changes o...