Meet Ed Miller, NovoEd’s New President and CEO
NovoEd is excited to introduce Ed Miller, our new President and CEO. Ed comes to NovoEd with a deep understanding of the educational technology market. He has over 25 years of experience in the...
View ArticleMeet us at OLC Accelerate 2016 in Orlando!
We’re proud to say we are sponsoring this year’s Online Learning Consortium conference in Orlando, Florida November 16-18! OLC is “driving quality online learning, advancing best practice guidance and...
View Article5 Takeaways from Masie’s Learning 2016 from the perspective of a 30 Under 30...
“We’re entering a really exciting, and yet challenging, time in learning and training.” I had just arrived at the first 30 Under 30 session at The Masie Learning Consortium’s Learning 2016 Conference,...
View ArticleConnecting with Your Millennials
Millennials are a force to be reckoned with in the current workplace. One of the characteristics of this generation is that they are easily distracted. That is why many employers are asking themselves...
View ArticleWhat Separate a Good Business Plan from a Mediocre One?
Robert Calvin, Previously Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Great Business Plans contain a competitive grid listing your major...
View ArticleLeading Your NovoEd Team to Success
Effectively starting and leading a virtual NovoEd team Team success is often dependent on cohesiveness and progress towards a goal. When teams meet in person, natural roles tend to emerge as teammates...
View ArticleMeet Lisa, Course Operations Specialist
Lisa Brefini is a Course Operations Specialist at NovoEd. She helps facilitate and run courses on NovoEd, including those of Philanthropy University. Before joining NovoEd, Lisa managed study abroad...
View Article5 Tips for Using Synchronous Events in Your Online Class
Learners are increasingly taking online courses not only to learn at their own pace, but also to meet and collaborate with other learners from all over the world. For MOOC designers, one solution to...
View ArticleWhy a Well Thought Out Business Plan Will Increase Your Enterprise’s...
Robert Calvin, Previously Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business It is easy to write a Business Plan but difficult to write a good one...
View ArticleFelt Accountability – An Interview with Professor Bob Sutton
Bob Sutton teaches the psychology of management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he uses NovoEd to create a blended classroom combining elements of online and traditional teaching....
View ArticleTaking Charge of the the Rails 4 Upgrade
This is the first post of Discovering NovoEd, a series of blogs that will feature some of the current projects at NovoEd. The first in our series takes a deep-dive into an engineering project led by...
View Article5 Onboarding Best Practices
The first couple actions that a learner takes in an online learning course are crucial for their experience and path towards completing a course. For many learners, an online learning experience might...
View ArticleThe Role of Empathy in Feedback
Rebecca Zucker of Next Step Partners, an expert in leadership development and career transition. Feedback is an emotional process; one that may cause feelings of embarrassment, shame, anger—or possibly...
View ArticleWhat Makes an Online Team Successful?
Milad Eftekhar Working alone, a typical learner has a low probability of completing an online course. When part of a team, however, his likelihood of success increases by a factor of 16. This makes...
View ArticleQ&A on Artificial Intelligence with Deloitte’s David Schatsky
Artificial intelligence is a hot field right now, with rapidly developing advances and new business applications. Deloitte’s David Schatsky, an expert in this area, is teaching a free NovoEd course for...
View ArticleA Strategy for Increasing MOOC Completion Rates
Chuck Eesley, Assistant Professor at Stanford University Completion rates in online courses are generally low, averaging around 13%. This poses a challenge to course designers, who are responsible for...
View ArticleHow Large is the Perfect Team?
The conventional wisdom of office managers is that the highest performing teams contain between five to seven members. With each additional body, the theory goes, a team either gets diminishing returns...
View ArticleInfluencing: The Art of Convincing Minds and Hearts
By: Richard Richards Course Facilitator for Storytelling at Work, offered by The Ariel Group I want to give you two quotes from contemporary authors I admire: “We are, as a species, addicted to...
View ArticleSelf-management and Coaching
Rebecca Zucker, Next Step Partners Self-management is an important part of coaching others – learning to keep our own emotions, fears and agendas in check in support of someone else’s growth and...
View ArticleWhat Equity Investors Look For?
Robert Calvin, Previously Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Entrepreneurs increase their probability of raising equity funds at a...
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