Industry Thought Leadership 32

By Bob Nilsson
director of vertical solutions marketing, Extreme Networks

In almost every endeavor, success depends on engaging your customers to ensure their success and keep them coming back. Colleges and universities need to continually monitor student (i.e., customer) satisfaction and track their success, just as stores and businesses do. Just as retailers use...

By Geoff Irvine
chief executive officer, Chalk & Wire

Employers today are far less reliant on the four-year college degree than in the past, when the B.A. or B.S. served as a primary pre-hire indicator of future performance. Today, the bachelor’s degree is virtually a commodity. According to an analysis by Burning Glass...

By Mike English
founder and chief executive officer/president, Forecast5 Analytics, Inc.

The deadline has passed for states to submit final Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans. Now it’s up to school districts to figure out how to capture and report data about student performance. While the additional reporting can seem like a burden, buried in...

By Brian Sharp
chief executive officer, SmartEdTech

Classroom assessments represented a nearly $1.6 billion market in 2017, and that market is expected to grow by 30 percent through 2020. In fact, classroom assessment now makes up a majority of the testing market, surpassing state testing. The benefit of formative assessments Formative...