Let’s talk about Education — Boulder Future Salon with Mark Finnern! Feb 11th 6pm PST

Future of Education Salon

Let’s talk about SEX Education — Boulder Future Salon with Mark Finnern! Friday 6pm PST Feb 11th, 2022 Spatial Chat link: https://spatial.chat/s/boulderfuture The Boulder Future Salon participants requested one around Education. Please welcome San Francisco Future Salon Founder Mark Finnern as the main presenter covering the following education topics:   Future of K-12 Synthesis, Outschool, Neighborhood schools Cohort Based Learning as the Future of Learning? Edutainment …

Low-Code Geeks && Suits Pair Programming!

Pair Programming Writing By Mark Finnern && Njal Stabell [Njal] This idea of Geeks && Suits Pair Programming was inspired by something that happened in 2011. The same year Ole Andre and I founded Neptune Software and presented our solution at SAP TechEd in Madrid. [Mark]: That year  SAP’s two most significant European events Sapphire && SAP TechEd were co-located. …

Yes, and Charge for Cohort-Courses!

Sunrise over San Francisco Bay Area this morning

Just finished listening to the excellent Make learning a team sport In Before The Lock podcast episode where Erica Kuhl and Brian Oblinger talk about the intersection of learning and community in companies. They make some excellent points in this episode:  Community and Learning Departments should work as close together as possible and report to the same executive!  Community and …

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Cohorts the Future of Learning!

Picture by Mark Finnern San Diego Harbor  There was a time when people thought that MOOCs are the Napster moment for US Universities. Well, with an average completion rate of 4% you don’t unseat the established education model. Still, millions of learners take MOOC classes every year. Especially in the corporate world, MOOCs continue to make a huge difference. SAP …

ASU GSV Summit What I Would like to Discover! #ASUGSVSummit

ASU GSV Summit

On the plane to the ASU GSV Summit, apparently, some call it the EdTech Woodstock, happening the next 3 days in San Diego.  Some topics I would like to learn about and discuss at this summit:  Education solutions derived from first principles:  Based on the latest research (what is that research?):  How do we learn?  How do we best retain …

Flip Your Webinar

Flip Your Webinar Sunset Pic

You may have heard of the Flipped Classroom: Let’s Flip the Webinar as well: Record your content and share it with your audience in advance. Nudge them to post questions ahead of time as well. Ideally, everyone can comment too, starting the conversation even before the webinar. The webinar is a Q&A live stream focusing on answering all questions! Couple …

Hey AI Buddy! Help Me Scale My Community’s Human Touch!

Yesterday I checked in with my good friend Bill Johnston regarding the state of AI in the Online Community space. He and his Structure3C team are the most knowledgeable about it. They have done the research: The Emerging Role of AI in Online Communities: Our 2020 Research.  Many community managers are wary about Artificial Intelligence managing their beloved community. The …

Engage Your Audience Even Before Your Online Event!

The CrowdCast.io system lets your participants ask questions as soon as you have posted your event on their platform. Not only that, but they also have the opportunity to upvote and comment on any question that has been posted already! That allows for a much more dynamic engagement even before your event starts. Join us for the first-ever Avantra Summit …

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Participants: Jazz Up Your Next Online Event!

We all love to complain about the current state of the art of online events? Talking heads droning on, not engaging enough, making you feel small, your opinion unimportant, it often feels like a late-night infomercial. Not that we are really missing being stuck in the middle of a keynote among 1000s of conference participants, where the speaker on the …