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We're sharing an extra dose of podcasting goodness with this recently released episode of the Next Practices podcast from Civitas Learning. Dustin was interviewed by Katy about what he's learned from years of podcasting and thoughts on trends in developing meaningful digital experiences for students.Guest Name: Katy Oliveira, Head of Content Marketing at Civitas LearningGuest Social: LinkedInGuest Bio: Katy Oliveira is a creative and strategic senior content marketer with experience producing resonant content experiences in multiple media formats. She is skilled in developing and executing comprehensive content strategies that drive brand awareness, engagement, and conversion across owned and paid channels. Katy is an experienced manager passionate about helping others hone their unique superpowers to reach their goals and contribute to a successful team. - - - -Connect With Our Host:Dustin Ramsdellhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/dustinramsdell/https://twitter.com/HigherEd_GeekAbout The Enrollify Podcast Network:The Higher Ed Geek is a part of the Enrollify Podcast Network. If you like this podcast, chances are you'll like other Enrollify shows too! Some of our favorites include Generation AI and I Wanna Work There. Enrollify is made possible by Element451 — the next-generation AI student engagement platform helping institutions create meaningful and personalized interactions with students. Learn more at element451.com.
Charles Thornburgh sits down with me to talk about his fatherhood journey. We talk about the values he looks to instill into his kids as they grow up. In addition, he shares why he loves when his kids are inquisitive and sees the importance asking questions. After that we talk about his passion for education technology. He shares why he and his team created Kinjo. Charles talks about why families will appreciate Kinjo and how it will help kids make great decisions when it comes to online gaming. Lastly, we finish the interview with the Fatherhood Quick Five. About Charles Thornburgh Charles Thornburgh is the Founder and CEO of Kinjo. He previously worked at Civitas Learning as a Founder and Vice Chairperson. Charles Thornburgh attended Stanford University. He is a six time Education Technology Founder. In addition, Charles loves to work and inspire teams focused on the most important problems in learning. Charles and his wife, Natalee have two sons. Game, learn, and earn with Kinjo. Only on Kinjo can you earn exciting rewards while playing fun games that improve your gaming & real-life skills. Kinjo: The Secret Weapon for Safer, Smarter Roblox Fun. Use the code, FATHERHOOD10. This code will give you 10% off a monthly or annual Kinjo Plus subscription! Go to their website at kinjo.com. About The Art of Fatherhood Podcast The Art of Fatherhood Podcast follows the journey of fatherhood. Your host, Art Eddy talks with fantastic dads from all around the world where they share their thoughts on fatherhood. You get a unique perspective on fatherhood from guests like Joe Montana, Bob Odenkirk, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kevin Smith, Danny Trejo, Jerry Rice, Jeff Foxworthy, Patrick Warburton, Jeff Kinney, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Kyle Busch, Dennis Quaid, Dwight Freeney and many more.
Mary Connor, Technical Writer at Civitas Learning, joins us in this episode of Knowledgebase Ninjas Podcast and talks about documentation best practices that attract and serve customers and innovations in the technical writing space that excites her.
Welcome back! In the season two premiere of The Creative Educator, Tacy talks with Melissa Vito, vice provost of academic innovation at The University of Texas at San Antonio, and Ryan McPherson, an associate professor of practice, about newly launched research on improving student outcomes across disciplines and modalities. Did you know students in classes with creative tools embedded in coursework are 8% more likely to stay enrolled term to term, or that new grads who list creative skills on LinkedIn earn up to 16% higher starting salaries? New data uncovered by Civitas Learning and LinkedIn quantifies the value of creative and digital skills in students' college and career advancement while offering a roadmap to build more successful higher ed institutions. Join Tacy, Melissa and Ryan and discover best practices for engaging faculty through meaningful, skills-based professional development, teaching creative skills across the curriculum to improve outcomes, and fostering student equity. Connect with Tacy on Twitter @tacytrow, Melissa Vito @mvpmv and Ryan McPherson @RyanMcpherson. Resources: Learn more about the study, Improving Student Outcomes: Quantifying the Impact of Creative Skills on College and Career. Watch Melissa and Ryan's Adobe MAX session for more details on how they empower their UTSA community with creative tools and digital literacy. Read more about UTSA's deployment of creative tools and student success stories on the Adobe Blog. Explore teaching resources curated by Dr. Todd Taylor and explore other free professional development resources on the Adobe Education Exchange. Join the Adobe Creative Educator program to find a community of inspired educators putting these insights into practice across the world.
On this episode I'm joined by Mara Larson-Richard, co-CEO of Ada's List. We discuss her views on ethics and AI, the definition of a "woman in tech" and why it's often misunderstood, what female founders need more of, and finally, how to cultivate great networks. If you're interested in the Ada's List conference, you can get tickets here: https://adaslist.onlive.events/ (Ada's List Annual Conf 2021 (onlive.events)) and become a part of the community here: http://www.adaslist.co (http://www.adaslist.co) Mara Larson-Richard brings experience from politics, education and technology to her role in leading Ada's List. Mara started her career working for Hillary Clinton, founded and successfully exited her own business, and most recently founded and grew the International business for Civitas Learning, an AI company serving more than 400 educational institutions globally. Mara is a frequent speaker on AI, data and ethics, including providing testimony in the British Parliament at the Technology and Data Ethics Inquiry. Along with her work at Ada's List, Mara is currently attending the INSEAD GEMBA programme and is an active research contributor on the project lead by Northumbria University on using predictive analytics to improve student wellbeing as part of the Office for Students Mental Health Challenge Call. Mara lives in London where she loves pilates, unique experiences and spicy food. Find more of Mara: https://www.twitter.com/MaraRichard (https://www.twitter.com/MaraRichard) https://www.instagram.com/MaraLarsonRichard (https://www.instagram.com/MaraLarsonRichard) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mararichard/ (Mara Larson-Richard) Follow Ada's List: https://www.twitter.com/adaslist (https://www.twitter.com/adaslist) https://www.instagram.com/adas_list (https://www.instagram.com/adas_list) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/adas-list (Ada's List)
Anette visits with her friend and fellow Hope Center Board member, Dr. Mark Milliron, Senior Vice President and Executive Dean of the Teachers College at Western Governors University They discuss different pathways to success for all students.Dr. Mark David Milliron is an award-winning leader, author, speaker, and consultant who works with universities, community colleges, K-12 schools, foundations, corporations, associations, and government agencies across the country and around the world. He serves as Senior Vice President and Executive Dean of the Teachers College at Western Governors University (WGU), a nonprofit university founded by 19 U.S. governors more than 25 years ago. WGU has since become a beacon of instructional innovation, affordable access, competency-based education, and workforce connection, serving over 130,000 full-time students nationwide. Founded with support from the U.S. Department of Education, WGU’s Teachers College is now the largest college of education in the U.S., serving more than 30,000 teachers, leaders, and other education innovators in all 50 states.In addition to his work with WGU, Mark helps catalyze positive change in education through his service on the boards and advisory councils of leading-edge education organizations, including the Trellis Foundation;Bennett College; the Global Online Academy;Civitas Learning; the Mastery Transcript Consortium; the Hope Center for College, Community, & Justice; and ISKME/Open Education Resource Commons. He also holds an appointment as a Professor of Practice in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin.In 1999, The University of Texas at Austin’s College of Education named Mark a Distinguished Graduate for his service to the education field. In 2007, the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) presented him with its prestigious National Leadership Award. In 2013 he was inducted into the United States Distance Learning Association’s Hall of Fame. In 2016 he was chosen by the Chronicle of Higher Education as one of the “Top Technology Innovators” in higher education; and in 2018, Mark was listed by EdTechDigest as one of the Top Influencers in the education technology field.Regardless of all of his activities and accomplishments, he will quickly tell you that the most important job and the greatest blessing in his life is serving as Julia’s husband, and as father to Alexandra, Richard, Marcus, and Max.
Mark Milliron chats with Chris Hester, Civitas Learning’s new CEO, to discuss the valuable experience Chris brings to Civitas Learning, his successful application of analytics within the healthcare sector, and how that success translates into education.
Lisa Roberts, Go-To-Market Strategist and former Head of Marketing at Civitas Learning shares her career journey and what it was like graduating from college and moving to NYC at the start of the DOTCOM era.
In this podcast, USF President, Judy Genshaft, and VP of Student Success, Paul Dosal, discuss their university's journey to radically improve their student success outcomes by embracing a culture of care. They also unpack how they leveraged Civitas Learning's analytics platform to break through persistence plateaus and help record numbers of students reach their goals, not to mention help the university reach preeminent status in the state of FL!
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Santi is a General Partner at Emergence Capital. Prior to joining Emergence, Santi founded, AXG Tecnonexo, a SaaS e-learning company in Latin America. He expanded the company to 150+ employees with operations across Latin America and the US. Santi is also a founding board member of Puente Labs, an organization that finds and selects the best founders of high potential growth companies from Latin America and helps them scale their businesses globally. Santi currently serves on the Boards of Civitas Learning, CrunchBase, High Alpha, Quasar, Restorando, Tophat, Xapo and Zoom. Santi received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in Economics from St. Andrew's University in Argentina. He is Kauffman Fellow and an Endeavor Entrepreneur. Outside of work Santi is passionate about traveling internationally. He spent 6 months backpacking around the world and continues to work on a personal goal of visiting at least 50% of the world countries. He is an avid opera and classical music follower and, like almost every Argentine, he is passionate about soccer.
It’s a pivotal time for artificial intelligence in higher education. More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. College advising systems are trying to use predictive analytics to increase student retention. And the infusion of algorithms is leading to questions—ethical questions and practical questions and philosophical questions—about how far higher education should go in bringing in artificial intelligence, and who decides what the algorithms should look like. To explore the issue, EdSurge invited a panel of experts to discuss their vision of the promises and perils of AI in education, in the first installment of our new series of video town halls called EdSurge Live. On this week's podcast, we bring you highlights from that discussion. We invited three guests: Candace Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford Graduate School of Education, Mark Milliron, co-founder and chief learning officer at Civitas Learning, and Kyle Bowen, educational technology services director at Penn State University.
Civitas Learning's Senior Vice President of Outcomes and Strategy Laura Malcolm reflects on the shift from transactional to transformational student outreach and how it impacts higher ed outcomes.
BYU's Kirk Larsen and Mark Peterson look at the politics in South Korea, North Korea and China. UCLA's Dan Posner explains the development of African Healthcare. Deakin University's Felice Jacka connects a healthy diet and treating depression. John Salmon, BYU, shares advances in virtual reality for engineers. Charles Thornburgh, CEO of Civitas Learning, on predicting college graduates. Michal Kosinski, Stanford University, shares how to use Facebook to discover the real you.
Universities UK (UUK), in partnership with Civitas Learning and Jisc, recently released a report on learning analytics in UK higher education (HE), which recognises it as being a powerful set of tools for helping institutions to support learner retention and progression. Jisc's Niall Sclater takes a closer look at the report, discussing the potential of learning analytics, blockers and challenges, and gives advice on how to move forward and make the most of the opportunities. Like this podcast? Subscribe via iTunes or add the RSS feed to your favourite podcast app. You can also visit Jisc's learning analytics project page for more information on our pilot.
Universities UK (UUK), in partnership with Civitas Learning and Jisc, recently released a report on learning analytics in UK higher education (HE), which recognises it as being a powerful set of tools for helping institutions to support learner retention and progression. Jisc's Niall Sclater takes a closer look at the report, discussing the potential of learning analytics, blockers and challenges, and gives advice on how to move forward and make the most of the opportunities. Like this podcast? Subscribe via iTunes or add the RSS feed to your favourite podcast app. You can also visit Jisc's learning analytics project page for more information on our pilot.
Mark Milliron, CEO of Civitas Learning, discusses how degrees still matter, the state of the current higher ed landscape and how colleges and universities are using data to improve learning, persistence and degree choices.
Today we continue our conversation with Charles Thornburgh, the CEO of Civitas Learning. Civitas Learning partners with higher education leaders to bring together the best of new leading-edge technology, design thinking and data science on a mission to help a million more students. It’s a huge mission that we talked about in detail in the last episode - make sure you listen to part one. In this episode, we wrestle with the issues that growth causes. Charles is quick to point out that what many times looks like a finish line, is usually just another starting line. Civitas Learning has been fortunate enough to raise a large amount of money, recently raising $60 million. Fundraising brings added pressure on the business, as you are now working with others’ money. From a CEO’s perspective, you are now responsible for fulfilling many more promises. The pressure is tough, but Charles shares how he copes with a growing company, investors and a family in this episode. Today’s Topics Include: How do you deal with raising a lot of money? How do you focus with extra responsibility? Charles is recognizing what looks like the finish line from a distance is actually another starting line. To help carry the load, Charles talks about he works with coaches and mentors. They help contribute perspective and see around corners. Running Civitas Learning, his title hasn’t changed, but his role has changed many times. The biggest way he sets priorities is blowing up his calendar. He shares how he has to decide how he spends his time to make the business the best it can be. The role of meditation and mindfulness can plan in a busy life. The missing variable in work-life balance is spending time on yourself. As stresses get bigger, time needs to be spent on yourself. You need to focus on sleep, exercise, and diet to keep stress levels down and be able to cope. To truly be force multiplier, you need to take care of yourself. The analogy of a racehorse. For You Leaders Podcast Dando
One unique person can reshape generations. For Charles Thornburgh, CEO of Civitas Learning and today's podcast guest, it was his great grandmother. As a woman in the early 1900s, she earned a graduate degree - practically unheard of in that time. That decision was a true force multiplier. You'll learn about the force multiplier and how Charles uses it as CEO in this episode. Civitas Learning partners with higher education leaders to bring together the best of new leading-edge technology, design thinking and data science on a mission to help a million more students each year learn well and finish strong. Charles shares more about how they are accomplishing this on the podcast. Listen to this episode to learn more about Charles's incredible grandmother, her influence, the million student problem and how you can be a force multiplier. Today’s Topics Include: The unique (and huge) mission of Civitas Learning. How Civitas Learning is going to solve the million student problem. How Citivas Learning helps students graduate from college. The multi-generational impact of having more college graduates. The amazing story of Charles's grandmother - her convictions, beliefs and actions that changed generations after her. What leadership means to Charles personally. How to develop a compelling vision, find a talented group of people to focus on that vision and complete the vision. Links and Resources: Civitas Learning Civitas Learning Space Charles Thornburgh Twitter
Learning analytics is big news at the moment, so, along with our M5 colleagues QAA, HESA and Universities UK, we recently held a successful ‘think tank’ exploring the hot topic of data-driven decision-making and the recommendations in our recent horizon scanning report. In this podcast, our resident futurist Martin Hamilton talks with delegates from Brunel University, Blackboard, Civitas Learning and from the University of Greenwich. What did they go along for? How do they think learning analytics could make a difference in the future of education? What’s inspired them? And what ‘quick wins’ will they be taking back to their institutions? Listen to get the lowdown on the latest thinking, and join in the conversation at #jiscfutures. We’ll be writing up the event in a short report, too, as part of our ongoing horizon scanning project – so watch this space! Visit https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/effective-learning-analytics to learn more about our current work.
Learning analytics is big news at the moment, so, along with our M5 colleagues QAA, HESA and Universities UK, we recently held a successful ‘think tank’ exploring the hot topic of data-driven decision-making and the recommendations in our recent horizon scanning report. In this podcast, our resident futurist Martin Hamilton talks with delegates from Brunel University, Blackboard, Civitas Learning and from the University of Greenwich. What did they go along for? How do they think learning analytics could make a difference in the future of education? What’s inspired them? And what ‘quick wins’ will they be taking back to their institutions? Listen to get the lowdown on the latest thinking, and join in the conversation at #jiscfutures. We’ll be writing up the event in a short report, too, as part of our ongoing horizon scanning project – so watch this space! Visit https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/effective-learning-analytics to learn more about our current work.
Minter Dialogue Episode #95 - This interview is with Charles Thornburgh, whom I met at SXSW. Charles is founder and CEO of Civitas Learning, with a mission that is close to my heart: to improve education. In this conversation, we hear about Civitas Learning’s approach, using the most sophisticated of data mining to help higher education institutions to take better decisions and create better learning paths for their students. Parallel opportunities exist for businesses and HR departments hoping to improve their ongoing educational support for employees. A truly fascinating topic, a great cause and a powerful ambition. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on themyndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Enjoy the show!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)