5: Real-Time Responses Using Formative with Matt Wheeland, Territory Manager Formative

03/11/21 • 44 min

EdUp Learning and Development, hosted by Holly Owens

Episode Overview

On the 5th episode of EdUp EdTech, we speak with Matt Wheeland, Territory Manager of Departments, Schools, and Districts at Formative. We talk about everything from our journey from classroom to ed-tech, and how personal and professional challenges led Matt to exactly where he wants to be, working with a great company! We also get into topics like preventing cheating on assessments and how to address these issues by implementing the use of Formative in your classroom.

About Formative

Use by 1 million students weekly, Formative is a teaching and assessment solution. Teachers can: - quickly create formative assessments from scratch or upload PDF's - view live student responses - create advanced question types: audio response, graphing, diagram, video, etc. - easily tag standards - monitor student mastery of standards

More about Matt

After 7 years of classroom teaching, Matt eventually found his way into edtech. His current role enables him to help educators answer what he thinks is the most important question in education: “did my students actually learn today?” Four things Matt loves: - Ohio sports - reading non-fiction books - posting on LinkedIn - and his family which includes a 5-year son and an Australian shepherd

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4: Managing Learning Using Microsoft Education Tools with Chris Bunio, Senior Director of Higher Education at Microsoft

Episode Overview

In episode 4 of EdUp EdTech, I had the pleasure of speaking with Chris Bunio, Senior Director of Higher Education at Microsoft. We had an amazing conversation about his journey into the ed-tech space and how Microsoft is leading the way in Higher Education when it comes to technology integration and providing extraordinary learning experiences for students.

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More about Chris Bunio

Chris is an experienced Senior Director with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. He is skilled in Enterprise Software, Enterprise Architecture, Agile Methodologies, Marketing Strategy, and Microsoft Azure. Chris is a strong entrepreneurship professional with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) focused in Physics from the University of Manitoba.

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6: Elevating Your Course Textbook using A.I. with Elliot Grossbard, Strategic Advisor Elevate U

Episode Overview

On the 6th episode of EdUp EdTech, we speak with Elliot Grossbard, Strategic Advisor for ElevateU. On this episode, we talk about Elliot's journey into the EdTech space, learning about Instructional Design, and how ElevateU is helping create dynamic and affordable learning resources for students. Through the use of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), ElevateU is changing the landscape of textbook options by helping adapt to new ways of learning.

About ElevateU

Using A.I., ElevateU is publishing digital courses and AI textbooks in 75% less time than the current average production time in the industry. We have reimagined learning, enabling professors to rapidly create an interactive AI textbook that dynamically adapts to each students’ learning modalities.

More about Elliot

The most important part of the business is and always will be "the relationship." I was lucky to have learned this lesson at an early age from my longest-living mentor, Harvey Mackay. It was Harvey also that taught me that having a strong network is essential to succeed in business and in life.
I continue to learn from my team of mentors and colleagues with a growth mindset. True champions never stop looking for ways to become better, neither do great salespeople.
Creating relationships and strategic partnerships have grown into friendships that have paid dividends for me and others and will continue to. Identifying who is the with people you should be spending time connecting with is one of the most difficult parts of networking and growing a business. Helping companies go from where they are now to where they want to be, is a passion of mine, and with the experience I've had myself and through observing others, I have been helping companies and people grow.

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