novoed newsletter, october 2013

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Students receive venture funding for class project, new classes starting this week, company updates, and more. Monthly Newsletter October 2013 This Month’s Highlights: Students receive venture funding for startup formed as part of class project. Stanford GSB launches their first online course Monday, The Finance of Retirement & Pensions Carnegie Foundation and NovoEd partner to teach developmental math, get a sneak preview! NovoEd is growing! We recently moved to San Francisco and welcomed Clint Korver and Greg Bybee to the team. Interested in joining us? We’re hiring visit http://novoed.com/careers. Featured Story: Startup Team Meets CTO on NovoEd, Receives Hundreds of Thousands in Funding We put students at the center of everything we do, so let’s begin with a student success story. The founders of Stylemarks created their company as part of a class project while working from three different time zones. Through the class, they met the new CTO, who continues to work for the company full time from Russia. Featured Upcoming Courses: The Finance of Retirement & Pensions Stanford Graduate School of Business Starts Oct 14 Numbers for Life Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Starts Oct 21 Lead Like an Entrepreneur Babson Global Starts Fall 2013

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Page 1: NovoEd Newsletter, October 2013

Students receive venture funding for class project, new classes starting this week, company updates, and more.

Monthly Newsletter

October 2013

This Month’s Highlights:

● Students receive venture funding for startup formed as part of class project.● Stanford GSB launches their first online course Monday, The Finance of Retirement & Pensions● Carnegie Foundation and NovoEd partner to teach developmental math, get a sneak preview!● NovoEd is growing!  We recently moved to San Francisco and welcomed Clint Korver and Greg

Bybee to the team.  Interested in joining us?  We’re hiring ­ visit http://novoed.com/careers.

Featured Story:

Startup Team Meets CTO on NovoEd, ReceivesHundreds of Thousands in FundingWe put students at the center of everything we do, so let’s begin witha student success story.  The founders of Stylemarks created theircompany as part of a class project while working from three differenttime zones. Through the class, they met the new CTO, whocontinues to work for the company full time from Russia.

Featured Upcoming Courses:

The Finance of Retirement &Pensions

Stanford Graduate School ofBusinessStarts Oct 14

Numbers for Life

Carnegie Foundation for theAdvancement of TeachingStarts Oct 21

Lead Like an Entrepreneur

Babson GlobalStarts Fall 2013

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Constructive ClassroomConversations

Stanford UniversityStarts Oct 21

Introduction to Decision Quality

Strategic Decisions GroupStarts Oct 21

Raising Startup Capital

UCSFStarts Nov 4

View our course catalog…

Recent Blog Posts:

We Are All Math People: America’s math crisisMost students entering higher education in the US are behind inmath.  A staggering 70% never pass remedial math and so areunable to graduate.  Learn how NovoEd and the Carnegie Foundationare teaming up to solve this problem.

Our Latest “Professor Post:” Why I Teach Finance ofRetirement: by Professor RauhIt concerns me that cities like Detroit are driven into bankruptcybecause of poor financial planning, jeopardizing the retirement of cityworkers and impacting critical public services for regular taxpayerslike you and me.  Let’s discuss this problem together in my course.

Leading Software Company Uses NovoEd Course forProfessional DevelopmentEmployees of 3Pillar Global, including the company’s CEO, took partin Leticia Britos’ “Design Thinking Action Lab” course from Stanford’sEpicenter. Each week, employee teams bounced around ideas andprovided feedback before submitting assignments.

DT Action Lab “Hangout” Joined by Two Special GuestsEach week, Instructor Leticia Britos Cavagnaro hosted designthinking office hours.  In one session, students were joined byAdriana Garcia, a Reuters’ journalist, and Dr. Frederik Pferdt,Google’s Global Manager for Creativity and Innovation.

Read more blog posts...

NovoEd In The News:

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The $10,000 Business DegreeFast Company, October 2014

NovoEd & Carnegie Quantify the Power of PartnershipsedSurge, September 2013

Making the grade in Massive Open Online CoursesCNET, September 2013

Babson Plans to License Entrepreneurship Courses toOther SchoolsBloomberg Businessweek, August 2013

Read more news articles..

NovoEd’s News:

Say hello to our newest colleagues!

Clint KorverChief Operating OfficerPrior to joining, Clint was a serialentrepreneur and then a partner atUlu Ventures. He also teachesentrepreneurship at Stanford andChairs the Board of Trustees atGrinnell College.

Greg BybeeDirector of Product Management.Greg recently finished a MA­Ed atStanford and fellowship atNewSchools Venture Fund.  Gregloves teaching abroad, but lives in SanFrancisco and is studying Chineseand music theory online.

And say hello, San Francisco!We’re on the move.  Our new office space is in downtown SanFrancisco’s financial district! Our new home has one of SF’sbest­kept secrets ­ a public rooftop garden on the top.  We arethrilled to be in such an energetic neighborhood and in an innovativecity.

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We’re hiring!We are solving hard problems in technology to solve the hardestproblems in education.

● Improving college graduation rates by tackling remedial math● Bringing the price of a college degree within reach of millions● Increasing online course retention rates by more than 10x● Measuring learning outcomes across millions of students● Applying social incentives & gamification to learning at scale

The list goes on and on.  We’ve already made great progress, but weneed your help to do even more.

Course Design SpecialistsBuilding online course is about more than a platform, it requiresdesigning an engaging learning experience.  We need educators withdeep pedagogy expertise who want to bring the best practices inoffline courses to online.

UX DesignerThe NovoEd Team is looking for UX Designers to create intuitive,easy­to­use and fluid user experiences. We believe instudent­centered design and application development.

Frontend DeveloperStudents from all over the world take NovoEd's online courses.NovoEd team is looking for frontend engineers who want to use themcreatively to design a new learning environment.

Web Application EngineerHundreds of thousands of students take NovoEd's courses. We arelooking for full­stack or backend engineers with experience buildingand scaling a product.

View more open positions…

Keep learning,

Your NovoEd Team

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