Career-Oriented Course Design with Greg Edwards

On this episode, I talk with Greg Edwards, head of learning at Rize Education. Rize is a for-profit company that works with a consortium of over 135 colleges and universities to help them quickly launch new, career-oriented majors and other programs. The institutions partner with Rize, which can provide half a dozen core online courses for these majors, sourced from the consortium, that layer on existing courses at the home institution to get these new programs up and running in a semester or two.

As head of learning at Rize, Greg is involved in all aspects of course design and development. In our conversation, he shares how Rize goes about identifying new programs to create, how course design works at a consortium scale, and the roles that faculty play in this new model. 

Episode Resources

·       Greg Edwards on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregorytedwards/ 

·       Rize Education, https://www.rize.education/ 

·       Lower Cost Models for Independent Colleges Consortium, https://www.thelcmc.org/ 

·       LCMC programs, https://www.thelcmc.org/programs 

·       “The New Learning Economy” white paper by Jeff Selingo, https://info.cengage.com/learning-economy_wp_2738580

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