{"id":67702,"date":"2019-07-15T12:26:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T16:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=67702"},"modified":"2019-07-15T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T17:13:10","slug":"instructures-age-of-adolescence-a-conversation-with-ceo-dan-goldsmith-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/07\/15\/instructures-age-of-adolescence-a-conversation-with-ceo-dan-goldsmith-wan\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructure\u2019s Age of Adolescence: A Conversation With CEO Dan Goldsmith [Wan]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instructure\u2019s Age of Adolescence: A Conversation With CEO Dan Goldsmith<\/strong><\/a> — from edsurge.com by Tony Wan<\/p>\n

Excerpts (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

…we sat down with Goldsmith in Long Beach, California, at InstructureCon, the company\u2019s annual user conference, to learn more about what lays ahead for the company as it enters, in his words, the \u201cadolescent phase.\u201d<\/p>\n

How big is the company now?
\nWe\u2019re over 1,200. A little less than half the company is focused on R&D, which is a pretty high percentage for a technology company like ours.
\n…
\nWhat\u2019s connecting the dots between the education and corporate sides is actually the market itself. Educational institutions are recognizing that the largest growing population is the professional worker, and there\u2019s a lot of opportunity for online programs.<\/strong><\/span> When institutions are extending those programs to build corporate relationships, it\u2019s very common they use Canvas to do that. Then Bridge comes in to provide the employee development piece.
\n…
\nI asked [Instructure\u2019s co-founder and former CEO] Josh Coates this\u00a0five years ago<\/a>, and now I\u2019ll ask you. What three words would you use to describe Instructure today?
\n<\/strong>Mission-minded. Curious. Optimistic.<\/span>
\n(Coates\u2019 answers: Impactful. Open. Innovative.)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span><\/em>
\nTo those of you graduate students out there: Never underestimate the impact\/influence that you can have!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Were it not for his volunteering as an adjunct professor at Brigham Young University, Coates might still be on vacation. In 2008, he was approached by two graduate students in his venture startup class with a fledgling idea that would become Instructure.<\/span><\/strong> Skeptical at first, Coates saw potential after they shared transcripts from interviews with 17 university administrators, detailing pain points and the need for a better product.<\/p>\n

In 2014: 450 employees
\nIn 2019: Over 1200 employees and now the #1 LMS within U.S. higher ed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instructure\u2019s Age of Adolescence: A Conversation With CEO Dan Goldsmith — from edsurge.com by Tony Wan Excerpts (emphasis DSC): …we sat down with Goldsmith in Long Beach, California, at InstructureCon, the company\u2019s annual user conference, to learn more about what lays ahead for the company as it enters, in his words, the \u201cadolescent phase.\u201d How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,115,302,112,200,32,237,3,102,15,62,309,89,50,188,195,118,321,214,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cmslms","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-education-technology","category-entrepreneurship","category-higher-education","category-learning","category-lifelong-learning","category-online-learning","category-platforms","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-tools","category-training-corporate-universities","category-united-states","category-universities","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67707,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67702\/revisions\/67707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}