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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Where do you see white spaces? I’ll give you an example. One of the things we’re learning in this COVID world is that at the elementary school level, distance learning is performing poorly. Clearly that is something that needs work. It needs to be thought through.
The other thing that I’m observing is that for a while as distance learning progresses, we said that we’re going from a sage-on-stage model to guide-on-side model. This expression has been used widely. People from edX, Coursera, and Khan Academy use this metaphor.
>>>Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What is the level of adoption and penetration into this particular marketplace? How big is the market? How many kinds in that age group are there in America? What percentage of that have you been able to crack?
Stephen Spahn: What you really have is quite a large market which would include students with special interests. You also have students who have been ill and are at home. You have homeschooling.
>>>Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What do they pay? What is the pricing of this program?
Stephen Spahn: It depends. It’s fairly flexible in terms of what parents can afford so that you can have parents paying more or less depending upon their circumstances. We have our own internal guideline so that if a person is very talented and can afford very little, we try to make sure that we can make a place for them.
>>>Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I understand your positioning. It sounds like you are taking these areas where you have quite gifted people pursuing a certain track. You’re giving them a more well-rounded education. How does a program for a dancer differ from that of a basketball player for example?
Stephen Spahn: They have the same base program. They have a playlist that they can do projects around their area of interest. If you’re a tennis player, you might want to study the physics of it. If you’re a dancer or a musician, you’re going to study the implications of sound and how it’s carried.
>>>Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s get a little bit more focused on the things you do. Especially in online education, what is it that you’re doing and what is unique and special?
Stephen Spahn: Because we’re leaders in the international baccalaureate (IB), we’re the first school to test online and work with other schools interested in becoming IB schools. We had to work with them on becoming IB schools.
>>>Thought Leaders in Online Education: Stephen Spahn, Dwight Schools Group (Part 1)
Very interesting discussion on online methods of providing a well-rounded education to gifted kids who pursue Sports and Arts careers.
Sramana Mitra: If you could introduce yourself as well as Dwight Schools Group to start with, that would be awesome.
>>>Thought Leaders in Online Education: Amesite CEO Ann Marie Sastry (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: As I’m listening to you, there is something that is going on in my head that I want to brainstorm with you. It’s not part of our usual discussion, but just because you’re talking about an area that I have huge interest in.
It stirs something in my mind that may be very interesting to discuss. We do all our program as an online education program. We have a digital curriculum that has thousands of case studies and thousands of hours of video content, podcasts, transcripts, and video lectures.
>>>Thought Leaders in Online Education: Amesite CEO Ann Marie Sastry (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Can you answer the question from the point of view of artificial intelligence in online education?
Ann Marie Sastry: In terms of AI in education, there’s a tension right now. It’s palpable. There is one camp that believes that AI can teach a human being effectively. There’s another camp that decries the lack of humanism in that interaction.
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