#86 – Betsy Corcoran, Editor, Edsurge

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The seventh edition of the ASU GSV Summit Series on The Edtech Podcast. Listen here.

This week I’m delighted to share a conversation I recorded with Edsurge CEO and Co-Founder Betsy Corcoran back in May this year. If you have’t already checked out the Edsurge podcast then I urge you to do so as it always has a fascinating round up of edtech news, and guests. In fact, it was listening to the Edsurge podcast which inspired me to set up The Edtech Podcast way back in 2016!

In this episode we talk about how Betsy left her secure role at Forbes (at the height of the economic recession). Betsy then embarked on some educational volunteering, dust-bunny collection and finally set up Edsurge in a bid to better understand why the future technologies of learning were not making it into the everyday schools of California. We also talk yoga, egos and high-stakes student academic and entrepreneurial expectation in the Silicon Valley, as well as what Hamilton the musical has got to do with Personalised Learning.

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What’s in this episode?

• Message from this week’s episode sponsors Qatar Foundation International , the Michelson Foundation and Class Central
• Sophie Bailey introduction
• Deborah Quazzo with the GSV Cap. perspective on Edsurge
• 1:1 interview with
• Edsurge CEO and C-o-Founder Betsy Corcoran
• Sophie Bailey outro – what’s next in the series, plus message from sponsors

Don’t forget to also check out the reference links below, for more follow up videos, podcasts and reading on this topic!

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References:

• Betsy Corcoran – Twitter
• EdSurge
• Jeff Weiner – LinkedIn CEO – LinkedIn
• Snap Inc.
• What Betsy DeVos Offered (or Didn’t) During Her ASU+GSV Summit Keynote – Tony Wan
• Betsy DeVos – ASU GSV Keynote
• The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness – Todd Rose
• Jefferson Accelerator – EdTech Efficacy Research Academic Symposium
• The Edtech Podcast #82 – On Efficacy & Impact ft. Bart Epstein
• Professor Rose Luckin – Twitter
• UCL Knowledge Lab
• EDUCATE
• Hamilton
• Sheryl Sandberg – Facebook
• Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead – Sheryl Sandberg
• The Edtech Podcast #69 – Relationships, Relevance, Rigour in School Refor. ft. Ted Fujimoto 

Like this episode? Check out these related videos and podcasts:

Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation: Marian Wright Edelman, Founder & President, Children’s Defense Fund with Introduction by Phyllis Lockett, Founder + CEO, LEAP Innovations

Bill Gates Keynote and Interview with Deborah Quazzo

Fireside Chat with Andre Agassi and Ted Robinson

Thank you to this week’s sponsors:

The ASU GSV Summit annually brings together the most impactful people from diverse constituencies – entrepreneurs, business leaders, K12 and higher ed leaders, policymakers, leading tech companies, and philanthropists – to create partnerships, explore solutions, and shape the future of learning and talent innovation.

Go to: https://www.asugsvsummit.com/ 

Qatar Foundation International (QFI), LLC, is a U.S.-based member of Qatar Foundation (QF). QFI operates as both a grant-making organization, and a convener of thought leaders on issues related to global and international education, open education and education technologies as they intersect with the three core QFI programmatic areas: Arabic language and Arab culture, STE{A}M (STEM plus the Arts), and Youth Engagement. 

Go to: http://www.qfi.org/

 

Founded by Dr. Gary K. Michelson, the Michelson 20MM Foundation is dedicated to supporting and investing in leading edge entrepreneurs, technologies, and initiatives that seek to transform learning and improve access to educational opportunities that lead to meaningful careers. The Michelson Runway is the world’s first social impact accelerator dedicated to supporting innovations in higher education and career training. I met the guys at the Michelson 20MM Foundation out at SXSW and they played a mean game of bowling at ASU GSV Summit. Go and check out what they do – especially if you’re involved in higher education and online learning innovation – at 20mm.org

Go to: Michelson 20MM Foundation Website ; Michelson Runway Website

A quick message from our friends at Class Central. Its been more than half a decade since free online courses from Stanford kicked off the modern-MOOC or massive online open courses movement. Since then more than 700 universities around the world have launched MOOCS, and more than 60 million people have taken at least one course. Class Central has been keeping track of the MOOC space right from the beginning. Over 10 million learners have used Class Central to find and review online courses. As the #1 search engine for online courses, Class Central provides a comprehensive listing of more than 8000 MOOCs. Class Central’s MOOC Report blog contains the most comprehensive coverage of the industry, including a recent listing of the top 50 MOOCs of all time. To find out what’s up, down, new or just slightly left field in the world of online courses, head to www.class-central.com/report/

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