№ 41 Robert Paddock, Valenture Institute My guest for today is Robert Paddock, a EdTech and eLearning entrepreneur from South Africa. While many people are familiar with his first venture - called GetSmarter, which was acquired by 2U in 2017, his latest venture is the Valenture Institute.  Valenture is a vanguard effort in the South African secondary education space that seeks to redefine what an all-online education can be. In this fast-paced conversation we talk about: 🌍 What it’s like to design an curriculum that focuses on SDGs and complies with international educational requirements… And is still engaging! 📖 The importance of diversity and its key role on effective and inclusive learning experiences… 👧 …and the importance of considering the whole teenager when it comes to understanding their behavior and academic performance. I mean that down to the neurochemical level 🎓 Why Robert is bullish on Learning Analytics and Big Data for Education, to do away with the “black box” classroom paradigm we can’t seem to break away from 💔 And why educational technologies are essential to break this paradigm for the benefit of all learners, particularly on low-income or disadvantaged groups ~💗💍~ Visit LMSPulse.com and subscribe to get our newsletter and let you know when next episodes come out. Join our eLearning Success Summit & Community https://www.elearningsuccesssummit.com/ LMSPulse Media https://linktr.ee/lmspulse