Dan Avida is the Co-Founder and CEO of Engageli, an inclusive virtual learning platform designed for higher education which he created in 2020 along with his wife Daphne Keller, who is a professor at Stanford. He has over three decades of tech leadership experience and can has extensive knowledge on the digital transformations that have taken place in higher education and ways in which online learning can be made more engaging and accessible. He understands how colleges and universities can facilitate a learning environment that maximizes all, in-person, online, and hybrid learning, and the successes of forward-looking universities that are adapting to the "new normal" brought on by COVID-19,
Dan Avida (Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Engageli) joins Dr. Whitney Kilgore on this episode of intentional Design to give us a serial educational entrepreneur's perspective of engagement in online learning. For more information on Engageli, please check out the site: https://www.engageli.com/ Intro 00:00 Origins of Engageli 00:35 Enageli is Designed by Educators 06:09 Accessibility within the Platform 11:48 Closing 15:51
Join me as I interview Dan Avida, CEO of Engageli. Dan cofounded the company with his wife, Coursera cofounder Daphne Koller, to create a more active online learning experience. Having raised over $47 million, Engageli is among a handful of companies seeking to dramatically reinvent the higher education learning experience to embrace the research findings around the value of active learning.