The future of general education. Boy, is this a hot potato! When you talk to schools you’d think you’re talking about the golden calf of higher education! “Oh–we can’t touch our general education! This is the formative years of a young person.”
You know what? I’m sorry. I don’t buy it; and if that’s what you want to do, that’s fine. I think general education is becoming more and more of a commodity every day. We’re seeing millions of students grinding through it as fast as possible. General education in a traditional campus, a private school where people can afford to pay a lot of money, will never change. That will always be there.
But right now, we’re seeing new technologies. Mobile-first technology powered by adaptive learning, which allows a student the flexibility to get through general education in maybe 15 months. If you’re really smart, you have concentrations within general education, taught online or in the classroom. My preference is a hybrid where you can do it to determine knowledge using adaptive engines to blast through parts of general education. Other parts you sit down in the classroom and it’s very collaborative and you learn communication skills and critical thinking.
But then it has a job concentration, whether it’s software coding, website design, managing software coders, understanding the new economy of the internet where there are 3 million jobs starting at $70,000 a year.
Start looking at general education. Talk to the great people at SignificantSystems. We put together a phenomenal team under our CEO’s leadership, and they’re constantly looking at general education because we think that is a marketing weapon and a ministry outreach for faith-based schools.
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Michael K. Clifford has been an entrepreneur since his first paper route at age 13. Michael has made and lost tens-of-millions of dollars.He believes one’s failures are more valuable than success.
As a "Venture Catalyst",Clifford works with successful CEO's who want to buy operating companies, families who desire to invest alongside high-quality private equity firms, business owners who want to sell their businesses or inject growth capital, regionally accredited higher education leaders that desire to expand access plus get surplus cash-flow, and charities desirous of monitization strategies/relationships to augment donations.
He has created companies in Christian Psychological Treatment, helped raise over $400M in gifts, major ad, branding & public relations, sold the largest Six Sigma consulting agreement ($80M), co-managed a Presidential Campaign, created the second largest grossing political documentary in history, produced the award-winning film D.O.P.E., several online content sites...&&& created two companies that were back-to-back IPOs in Higher Education (LOPE & BPI)...the best performing IPO's in 2008/9 respectively.
His real joy as an entrepreneur has been the catalyst to help create thousands of high paying jobs, $1.2B invested in real estate for schools, graduated hundreds-of-thousands of students with billions-of-dollars in return to institutions as well as investors.
Clifford’s charity-of-choice is www.dreamcenter.org. He enjoys several Honorary Doctorates. He lives in Rancho Santa Fe, California, with the best person he has ever known, Lindsey, enjoying their four terrific children plus Lindsey’s ministry, www.jesuslifestyle.com. He has trouble sitting still, loves sailing, deep sea fishing, Cuban cigars, movies, walking, the Bible and as a former trumpet player, enjoys all genres of music.
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