Adam Berns — Online learning systems
How do you sell learning systems on four continents while managing a remote team — all from home? Adam and I discuss that and more in a deep dive into online education, home schooling, coping with time differences and learning from video games. Find out why he's getting rid of their offices and committing the whole team to working from home full time.
Adam’s links:
Stuff we talk about:
- “Stop Stealing Dreams" — Seth Godin’s TEDx talk on a new way of learning
- “Stop Stealing Dreams” — the full article
- “Limitless” by Jim Kwik
- Architect/designer/author Richard Saul Wurman who created the TED Conference
- Episode 2 with Patrick Fredrickson where we talk about home-schooling
- Sugata Mitra’s “Hole in the Wall” TED Talk
- Larry Martinek and Mathnasium
- Mastery-based learning
- Zoom
- Skype for Business (now Microsoft Teams)
- Time Zone converter
- Common Core standards
- International Baccalaureate standards
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Happy Theme by maxmakessounds and Atrium Loop by dpren used under standard Creative Commons attribution license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/