125: Advice to Higher Ed? AGILITY & SPEED - with Ken Eisner, Director of Worldwide Education Programs, Amazon Web Services

<p>In this amazing episode of <a href="//www.edupexperience.com">The EdUp Experience</a>, we have the honor of speaking with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/keneisner/">Ken Eisner</a>, Director of Worldwide Education Programs with Amazon Web Services. &nbsp;The <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/education/awseducate/">AWS Educate</a> &amp; AWS Academy programs aim to fill the need for skilled workers in cloud computing technologies - which is at an all-time high. &nbsp;Ken discusses Ed-Tech's role in educational equity, and why technology can contribute to closing the wealth gap through economic attainment. &nbsp;Also, Ken points out why co-created learning between business and education is changing the learning landscape, and why it's essential that the 21st century institutions better be FAST and AGILE. &nbsp;&nbsp;With the most important outcome of education being the job, the future of education is hands-on, career aligned, and SPEED needs to be the new normal for Higher Ed! &nbsp;BOOM!</p> <p>Ken is an education technology leader with 20+ years-experience spearheading initiatives that improve educational outcomes and disrupt traditional delivery models. Ken founded AWS Educate, Amazon’s global initiative to dramatically accelerate cloud learning and prepare students for a cloud-enabled workforce. Program demand has far outstripped projections, with a membership composed of hundreds of thousands of students and over 2,400 institutions including all of the top ten leading global computer science higher education institutions.&nbsp;</p> <p>Thanks so much for tuning in. &nbsp;Join us again next time for another episode! &nbsp;Contact Us!</p> <p>Connect with the hosts - <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/elvinfreytes/">Elvin Freytes</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethleiba/">Elizabeth Leiba</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/joesallustio/">Dr. Joe Sallustio</a></p> <p>● If you want to get involved, leave us a comment or rate us!</p> <p>● Join the EdUp community at <a href="https://w