The Rethinking Education Sessions
Welcome to The Rethinking Education Sessions, the all things education podcast brought to you by Rethink Education, an edtech-focused venture capital firm. Through conversations with entrepreneurs, educators, and investors, we will explore the past, present, and future of education. Our investment thesis drives us to find entrepreneurs creating new ways of teaching, learning, and supporting students. We strive to help vulnerable and disadvantaged learners reach their potential. We strive to transform and improve the way everyone learns and works, everywhere. And we try to make our portfolio and our ecosystem more diverse and more inclusive. This podcast will explore what a more effective, equitable, and innovative education system looks like and how we get there. To learn more about Rethink Education, visit our website or find us on LinkedIn or Twitter. Thanks for listening!
The Rethinking Education Sessions
How David Blake is Transforming Lifelong Learning
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In a recent blog post, Matt Greenfield detailed the key themes in education technology that Rethink Education is focused on and outlined four areas of study for our research in 2021. The first area of research is on working learners. We will share our findings through blog posts, events, and through our conversations on this podcast, starting today with David Blake. David Blake is the Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Degreed and the Co-founder and CEO of both LearnIn and BookClub. In today’s episode, Matt Greenfield talks with David Blake about how Degreed transformed enterprise learning and how David is working to build pathways to lifelong learning for all workers.
Resources Discussed in Today’s Show:
- Companies:
- Books:
- The Expertise Economy by David Blake and Kelly Palmer
- The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek
- Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer