EdTech Episodes

Welcome back to America’s leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by Element451, we talk with Kathleen deLaski, Founder & CEO, Education Design Lab. Listen in as Joe and Liz talk with Kathleen about the amazing work that is being, and will be, done at Education Design Lab. Kathleen shares her thoughts and what she likes to call the learner revolution. Tune in to learn more!


Kathleen founded the Education Design Lab after eight years on the...

Welcome back to America’s leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by Element451, we talk with Ross Morrison McGill, Founder & CEO, TeacherToolkit. Liz goes one on one with Ross to talk about all the tools that teachers need to provide maximum learning opportunities in and out of the classroom. They also talk about how Covid has created a trauma trifecta that includes, teachers, students, and parents. Listen in as two of LinkedIn's 2020 Top Vo...

Welcome back to America‘s leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by Element451, we talk with Lisa Cohen Gevelber, Founder and VP of Grow With Google. With a commitment of one billion dollars, and one million Google employee staff hours, Grow With Google was created to (a) help small businesses leverage technology and (b) to create employment equitability by tearing down barriers for two-thirds of American workers looking for meaningful work ...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! This is The EdUp Experience President Series Episode #63. In this episode, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we welcome Ryan Collins, CEO at Bethel School of Technology! Bethel School of Technology (aka Bethel Tech) is the first faith-based tech bootcamp in the world. Ryan discusses why organizations are so interested in Bethel Tech grads that have both high-skill and high character. There is no doubt that students learning full-stack, data s...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by Element451, we talk with Chris Bunio, Former Sr. Director Higher Education, Microsoft. Chris talks to us about the rapid growth of MS Teams during Covid - by thousands as a percentage. Microsoft has been intentional to simplify life for faculty and students - they are looking at student engagement and student success as the priority, including how to understand trends within...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we talk with Laura Ipsen, President and CEO at Ellucian. Laura talks to us about how Ellucian guides over 2,700 customers in more than 50 countries—improving operations and enhancing the user experience for their faculties, staff, and over 20 million students.


She explains how her organization provides support to institutions using an ERP with an open inter...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by The Evolllution, we talk with, Cooper Jones, Co-Founder and CEO at Rah Rah! Cooper talks to us about Rah Rah, which brings connectivity engagement, and value to students - focusing on the student is what Rah Rah is all about. Where do I go? What do I do now? These are common questions that cause uncertainty and frustration for students. Rah Rah takes them to one place, and r...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by Element 451, we talk with Dr. Bridget Burns, Executive Director of the University Innovation Alliance. Helping low-income, first-generation, and students of color is not something universities have typically been good at. The University Alliance is focused on completion - who is completing and who is not. Higher education was never designed around students; the entire tradit...

Welcome back to America's leading higher education podcast! In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by The Evolllution, we talk with Glen Patterson, Co-Founder, WorkSchool. WorkSchool connects the learner to aggregated certificate programs, then connects the earned skill to employment opportunities. Hear Glen talk about the necessity of offering students valuable learning opportunities without becoming frustrated. With so many non-credit and certificate opportunities availabl...

In this fantastic episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by Element 451, we talk with Charlie Javice, Founder & CEO, Frank. This episode is action-packed. We discuss the simplification of the FAFSA. It's so much easier now, right? Hear Charlie talk about why completing the FAFSA, even amongst the recent governmental simplification, isn't so simple. Colleges and universities don't measure FAFSA completion times against yield rates, but should. Charlie also talks about loan forgiveness, loan in...

In this amazing episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we have the honor of speaking with Rebecca D. Costa, American Sociobiologist & Futurist! Rebecca talks to us about the future use of facial recognition software in education - there are 52 muscles in your face - and your face could be "read" to determine that you received the content you were taught. Are we really using ALL of the tools available to us to make learning easier, more effective with the way we learn today (...

In this amazing episode of The EdUp Experience, sponsored by MDT Marketing, we have the honor of speaking with Jerry Sanchez, Esports Consultant! For many colleges and universities, E-Sports could be the next great revenue stream. An E-Sports team can help with recruitment, engagement, and retention, of students by creating a community not limited by geography. It's not just about the E-Sport itself, its about the entire ecosystem that is created around the E-Sport including the architecture, ma...

In this amazing episode of The EdUp Experience, we have the honor of speaking with John Farrar, Director of Education at Google! John's birds-eye view of higher educations investment (or lack thereof) in digital marketing is incredible to hear. John talks about how brands that have not needed to invest in digital marketing are quickly realizing their ability to compete will be directly tied to digital marketing. Universities from different corners of the country are now competing with each other...

In this amazing episode of The EdUp Experience, we have the honor of speaking with Jim Milton, Chairman & CEO, Anthology. Anthology is a new entity combining three formerly separate organizations, including one company we know many higher ed professionals have heard of or used - Campus Management. Along with Campus Labs and iModules, Anthology now serves over 2,100 higher-ed institutions across 34 countries. Jim talks to us about the need for technology during the pandemic and why investments in...

In this BONUS EdUp Embedded episode of The EdUp Experience, Dr. Joe Sallustio talks one-on-one with Timothy Midgley, Co-Founder & CEO at DIEMlife. DIEMlife is a SAAS platform that brings people together through Quests™. We provide a place – an integrated, seamless online platform – that enables people to come together in common purpose, for shared projects, in support of one another. Have you been thinking about a way to keep students engaged online - a way to build community? Well, DIEMlife pro...

In this amazing episode of The EdUp Experience, we have the honor of speaking with Dr. Parminder K. Jassal, CEO, SocialTech.ai & UnMudl. SocialTech.ai develops technologies to solve and drive for positive social behavior - with the goal of an equitable and sustainable future. UnMudl Marketplace is the signature product is a course-to-jobs-marketplace driven by community colleges to connect learners with employers. This tech just went live in November and there are already 7 community colleges on...

In this amazing episode of The EdUp Experience, we have the honor of speaking with Ken Eisner, Director of Worldwide Education Programs with Amazon Web Services. The AWS Educate & AWS Academy programs aim to fill the need for skilled workers in cloud computing technologies - which is at an all-time high. Ken discusses Ed-Tech's role in educational equity, and why technology can contribute to closing the wealth gap through economic attainment. Also, Ken points out why co-created learning between ...

In this episode of The EdUp Experience, we talk with Matt Diteljan, Co-Founder & CEO at Glacier. Glacier provides high school advertising opportunities, influencer opportunities, and digital marketing services to higher education across the U.S. and Canada. Imagine this - a placement ad agency that puts your ads on the high school campus in front of potential students, an agency that identifies high school content creators and turns them into university brand ambassadors, and an agency that is g...

In this episode of The EdUp Experience, we talk with Amrit Ahluwalia - Managing Editor of The EvoLLLution. EvoLLLution is an online newspaper focused on non-traditional higher education and the transforming postsecondary marketplace. Amrit talks to us about the concept of the 60-year curriculum, including the evolving student consumer and the changing demand for higher education. Amrit argues that educational institutions need to meet the learner at the point in time when they are interested, an...

In this episode of The EdUp Experience, we talk with Ardis Kadiu, CEO of Element451. Element451 is a CRM and marketing automation platform handling everything from leads to communications to yield management for colleges and universities. Element451 can be implemented in a modular way that prevents headaches and compromised systems. An effective CRM can be a differentiator when it comes to growth and competition!

Ardis is the CEO and founder of Element451, the intelligent admissions marketing, ...

BONUS - EdUp Embedded Episode - In this episdoe of The EdUp Experience, Dr. Joe Sallustio talks one-on-one with Minesh Parikh, CEO at Lipman Hearne. Minesh gives fantastic advice about the importance of crystallizing institutional brand, especially with the increase in competition. He also discusses the necessity of thinking outside the box to diversify revenue, why "tightening" operations in marketing and enrollment will increase yield and the reasons why the institutional website is of critica...

In this episode of The EdUp Experience, we talk with Senior Vice President of Everfi, Rob Buelow. Rob talks to us about how today's students demand more from their campus experience, evaluating institutions on their commitments to safety, health and wellness, and inclusion. Rob enlightens us about Everfi's Social Impact Index ranking and why there is a necessity to look at emerging factors which are key indicators for the future of higher education's relevance.

Rob Buelow is the Senior Vice Pre...

In this episode of The EdUp Experience podcast, we welcome Andrew Lang, CEO of Omega Notes. Andrew talks with Joe and Liz about how Omega Notes works to help students, Generation Z and Millennials in particular, engage with course work using a social media style platform to increase retention rates. They also talk about Andrew's thoughts on open educational resources (OER), how Covid has changed learning behavior and his thoughts on the future of higher education.

Andrew's passion for EdTech st...

In this episode of The EdUp Experience podcast, we welcome Andrew Ko, Founder of Kovexa. Andrew founded Kovexa to modernize education by accelerating and promoting companies that create pathways for high-tech skills and drive the use of advanced analytics assisting educators. In addition to discussing Kovexa, we talk to Andrew about educational value, data being the new currency, and educations role in the future of technology

Prior to Kovexa, at AWS, he was the Managing Director for Global Edu...