Tomorrow Is Too Late:
The Time for Digital Transformation is Today

Dan Avida
CEO and Co-Founder,
Engageli
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Prior experience:
● CEO and Co-Founder, Decru (acquired for ~$300M)
● Chairman and CEO of EFI (achieved market capitalization > $3B)
● Served on the Board of Directors of several companies,
several of which are valued over $1B, including:
- Coursera
- SolarEdge
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A Question Posed by Two Middle School Students:
Why has everything changed: phones, cars, houses, but not schools?
https://falconsflyer.org/14237/opinion/school-vs-technology/
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The Opportunity
Welcome to the college education revolution.
Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly
possible meets what is desperately necessary
Thomas Friedman
NY Times, 2012
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The Evolution of Teaching Technology
One → Many
Shareable
and editable
Reusable
Used until the 80ʼs
Used until the
mid-90ʼs
Used from mid-90ʼs
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The Evolution of Teaching Technology, Continued
One → Many
Shareable
and editable
Reusable
Used until the 80ʼs
Used until the
mid-90ʼs
Used from mid-90ʼs
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● Peer-peer
instruction
● Two-way
feedback
● Built-in
measurements
● Reusable
● Shareable and
editable
● Always on
● Interactive
learning
● Peer-peer
instruction
● Two-way
feedback
● Built-in
measurements
Used in 2022
Many ↔ Many

Students perceive
lectures to be
effective
Source:
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America
(PNAS)
ʻMeasuring actual learning versus feeling
of learning in response to being actively
engaged in the classroom.ʼ
September 24, 2019 116 (39) 19251-19257;
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821936116
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But, they actually
learn better when
they are engaged
Source:
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences of the United States of America
(PNAS)
ʻMeasuring actual learning versus feeling
of learning in response to being actively
engaged in the classroom.ʼ
September 24, 2019 116 (39) 19251-19257;
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1821936116
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Does Engagement and Participation Matter?
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● Meta analysis of 225 papers showing data on
student outcomes comparing lectures to
active learning
● Scores improved by 6% in active learning
classes (group work, interactive polls)
● Students are 1.5x more likely to fail with
traditional lecturing vs. active learning
Active Learning Leads to Better Outcomes
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“Active learning engages students in the
process of learning through activities
and/or discussion in class, as opposed to
passively listening to an expert. It
emphasizes higher-order thinking and
often involves group work.”
Freeman et al. 2014
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=wont2v_LZ1E
“Most classrooms—more like 99.9 percent—on campus are auditoriums. They are built with just one
purpose: focusing the attention of many on the professor. The professor is active, and the audience
is just sitting there, taking in information.”
- Eric Mazur “Twilight of the Lecture”, Harvard Magazine, 2012
Collaborative Learning in Large F2F Courses?!

Instead, you could get away from the auditorium seating and set up
classrooms like you see in elementary schools, where four children sit
around a square table facing each other, and you give them some kind
of group activity to work on: that’s active learning.
Eric Mazur
“Twilight of the Lecture”,
Harvard Magazine, 2012
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Engagement enables
effective teaching and
learning
Simplify the application of learning
science by naturally transitioning from
full-class to small-group interactions
without losing touch with learners. Track
talk time and group dynamics to better
support them.
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Inclusive classrooms allow
for diverse, measurable
communication channels
● Speaking to the class (“raising hands”)
● Note taking
● Chat posts
● Q&A
● Whiteboard
● Collaborative documents
● Video clips
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Give students flexibility in
when and how they
communicate with you,
and each other
Provide a safe space for questions to be
asked publicly, anonymously, in real time
or after the fact to encourage shy
students, non-native speakers or those
not fully grasping the material to come
forward.
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Keep learning in small
groups to foster
peer-to-peer learning
and community
Remote learning has opened the
opportunity for more intimate instruction,
not less.
“There is no back row in a digital classroom”
- Dr. Juan Romo, Rector
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Use Real-Time
Feedback to Adjust
Teaching Approach
Online learning platforms can indicate
individual and class-wide student
sentiment and understanding via
real-time feedback more easily than in a
tech-free classroom.
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Designing Engaging
Learning Experiences
Can be Easy
Engageli Action Tags reduce instructor
cognitive load by easily enabling
interactive learning design.
Engageli Action Tags instantly add
polls, quizzes, group settings,
collaboration tools and timer
activities to your existing lesson flow.
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Measure, Analyze, Improve
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Granular Data Measurements Improve Student Outcomes
Engageli follows safe data practices to enable
a meaningful outlook of an individual
learnerʼs class progress, group work,
class-level engagement, and, potentially,
institution-wide outcomes
Sample data points include:
● Attendance
● Hand raises and total class
session talk time (i.e.,
participation)
● Screen shares
● Poll participation / results
● Q&A participation / views
● Chat and communications
● Reactions and session feedback
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(Soffer & Cohen, 2019)
Meaningful
and inspiring
activities
Instructor
guidance and
feedback
Better learning
outcomes
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Tomorrow Is Too Late: The Time for Digital Transformation is Today
Engagement Predicts Learning Success
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To navigate this new world, we need solutions that bring students
together, foster collaborative learning and enable our faculty to
deliver flexible, impactful experiences. Engageli is helping us
achieve this.
Dr. Juan Romo
Rector
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Thank You!
Dan Avida
Co-Founder and CEO
dan.avida@engageli.com
www.engageli.com
Questions?