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EdTech for Teachers by Teachers

EdTech for Teachers by Teachers

Date: Thursday, September 30, 2021

Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)

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Contact North | Contact Nord’s What’s Next in Online Learning webinar series features a select group of Canadian CEOs sharing their vision of learning in a post-pandemic world. 

Much of what passes for educational technology has been designed by technology developers with their own ideas of what teaching and learning looks like. BigBlueButton is different. Developed by and with teachers for teachers, with technology colleagues enabling their designs, it’s a different approach and a different outcome coming from a different kind of organization.

Fred Dixon, founder and CEO of the Ottawa-based Blindside Networks and lead for the team that developed BigBlueButton, leads this webinar. He’ll explain what he learned from the pivot to remote teaching during the pandemic, what he thought worked and didn’t work and what he expects the EdTech industry to work on for the future.

Key Takeaways

When you take part in this engaging webinar, you’ll get an opportunity to:

•    Reflect on the experience of online learning during the pandemic: the good news and the not so good news.
•    Explore the role of open-source technology and open education resources during the pandemic and what these developments mean for the future of EdTech and online teaching.
•    Explore the difference between products and services designed with and by teachers versus those designed by technology developers.
 

Tags: Educational Technology Open-Source Technology Teach-Driven Design Innovation in Learning Future of EdTech

Host:

Fred Dixon
CEO, Blindside Networks

Fred Dixon excels as a serial entrepreneur. Having graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 1992, he worked at Nortel before founding DataBeacon, which was later acquired by Cognos. Fred then created OpenLava Software, an intelligent messaging platform, and led sales for Klipflo before co-founding Blindside Networks — which provides resources to support BigBlueButton — in 2008. He hasn’t looked back since. Dedicated to accessibility of education and equity, Fred’s ambition is to run a financially viable company that contributes to the social good — it is the heart of entrepreneurship for him.

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