This is the subject of my keynote at Eduventures Summit 2022, June 15-17 in Boston. Here’s a sneak-peak at what I’m going to be talking about…
Eduventures Summit 2022 Preview: Debating Higher Education’s Delivery Mode
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Richard Garrett
Eduventures Chief Research Officer at Encoura
About Richard
Richard Garrett is Chief Research Officer at Eduventures. Richard has nearly 25 years of experience in higher education research, consulting and policy. From 2015-2019, Richard was also Director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, a think tank, part of Tribal Group, focused on global developments in online learning, internationalization and commercial activity and partnerships. Prior to Eduventures, Richard was North America Director for i-graduate, working with clients of the International Student Barometer, the world’s largest survey of the international student experience. From 2005-2013, Richard led Eduventures online higher education practice. Richard has also worked as a researcher in the School of Education & Continuing Studies at the University of Surrey in the UK and as a policy analyst at the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. He has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from King’s College London and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Cambridge.
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