Jordan Levy Is Here To Discuss Online Learning, A Virtual Life, and Educational Technology:

Jordan is a serial education technology entrepreneur. He has started two EdTech companies that help higher-ed programs bridge the skills gap for their students through experiential learning. His method is to integrate real companies into the education process through hands-on collaborations that expose learners to new circumstances with real stakeholders, challenges, and outcomes.

Quote: Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.

His company CapSource makes building and scaling industry-integrated project-based experiential learning programs easy. Through a combination of software and services, CapSource helps educators match with companies and design projects based on narrow academic requirements. Jordan started his first company, Real Time Cases, while an undergraduate at Lehigh University studying Accounting, Finance, and Entrepreneurship. Outside of work, Jordan is passionate about cooking, hiking, traveling, sailing, tennis, public speaking, photography, mixology, and coaching/connecting fellow entrepreneurs.  

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

1. The new world of Education Technology.
2. Online Learning and Mentoring for businesses.
3. The power and fun of a Virtual Lifestyle.

 

Today’s Guest & Resource Links:

• @CapSource - https://www.facebook.com/CapSourceEdu
• @CapSourceEdu - https://twitter.com/CapSourceEdu
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/capsource-education/
• https://www.instagram.com/capsourceedu/

 

Watch us on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/8-fEEN910RI

• https://youtu.be/8-fEEN910RI

 

Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30 - Introduction 08:15 - The reality is, we put a lot of pressure on our educators to solve all of society's problems in the way that they teach and educate and prepare our youth for the future. That's the main objective of our education system is to prepare a future workforce. Now, the reality is, those people are often in education, and never got a chance to enter the workforce in the same way that the 80 to 90% of people do. They are back in education, they spend their careers in education, they trained to be an educator, so we cannot expect of them to guide in a way that a professional mentor, you know, someone from industry would guide. And so that's kind of the issue, right? 13:45 - What we see is virtual learning is really just the theory, like the theory based learning that's now being done in a virtual world, which is not experiential learning. We're not changing the way that we're teaching. We're just changing the modality in which the educators connect with students. So obviously, the best schools, the most progressive institutions are not only transitioning to virtual, but they're also redesigning their curriculum around optimizing for virtual environment. So that's the first thing. The second thing is if you think about that concept of learning, ever since you were a child, you were dropped off at school, and that's where you learned, and then you came home from school. And that's where you're not learning, right? 22:00 - Now we're living in a world where it's not just the data, but it's the AI tools that are being built to analyze that data. So we're on version two, ver