Justin
• Consulting - keep it an on-the-side basis. Full time consulting results in a huge personal sacrifice.
• It has everything to do with your professional network. Personality is everything. Need to be pleasant to work with
• Its all about making a team or group of people successful.
International Audience
• Students in 63 countries, but we don't cater well to them. Most of the students are the high adventure groups, but what about the villages in Ghana? Money. Need a philanthropic organization to fund it.
Business Model
• Someone pays us to do work, and they need to make money now. Theory guides our thinking, but practicality brings us home. The employable approach is to design quick, and learn - a constant evolution. We can't sit back and take 2 years to develop a final project. Rapid prototyping, iterative design.
Vision for independent study
• Fast, prototype design. Historically, publishing was the goal. This is outdated now. Distance learning program isn't content creation anymore. There's lots of stuff out there now. Before we were building stuff that didn't exist. Now, we need to be clear what the learning outcomes are for the product, (consumer-minded) and meet those goals efficiently. Anyone can learn anything they need from the internet, but it takes them a long time to do it. 1) meet with a costumer, get to know their needs. 2) Give feedback to what is already available 3) Design a way to not just create content, but to connect people to existing content and resources in a simple and understandable manner. More than just teaching content, we are teaching how to be successful on your own.
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