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Meet William, Marketing Specialist at NovoEd
William Kolkey is marketing specialist at NovoEd. His experience in education ranges from teaching Latin at a public school in Los Angeles to teaching crusade historiography at the University of...
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Top 5 Takeaways from ATD Conference on Training and Development
NovoEd sponsored the 2015 ATD Conference and Exposition on Training and Development. With over 10,500 attendees, the conference ranks among the industry’s largest. Here is a list of our five takeaways,...
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Targeting Value Added Banks and Equity Investors
Robert Calvin, Previously Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Marketing at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Most entrepreneurs and small business people spend the largest...
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NovoEd Instructional Designer Named ’30 Under 30′
Ben Alisuag has made Elliott Masie’s 30 Under 30, a distinction that recognizes individuals who are leading a generational shift in the way that organizations and institutions teach skills and develop...
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What 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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Self-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...
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Influencing: 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...
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How 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...
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A 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...
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Q&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...
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What 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...
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The 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...
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5 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...
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Taking 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...
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Felt 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....
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Why 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...
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5 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...
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Meet 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...
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Leading 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...
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What 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...
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