As President of Chicago-based Quadrant Management Consulting, LLC, Mr. Epstein leverages his diverse background to support a client base ranging from major global corporations to small, advanced IP companies. Regardless of size, he delivers innovation and strategic growth initiatives by forging alliances and leveraging his network to support clients' business development efforts, including the commercialization and realization of the value inherent in their IP portfolios.
A creative problem-solver and innovator, Mr. Epstein graduated from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. His academic background includes physics, chemistry, mathematics and business, providing him an unusual insight into the world of innovation. He has been regularly published in international peer-reviewed physics journals and is currently writing his dissertation for a PhD in physics.
In addition to serving his clientele, Mr. Epstein is a sought-after public speaker on such topics as the future, sustainability, entrepreneurship science and packaging. He serves on a number of indoor positioning system, including the Edison Innovation Awards organization.
"Harry has demonstrated an ability to not only identify strategic relationships, but to make direct introductions to key decision-makers at Fortune 1000 companies," said Nathaniel Bradley, Chief Executive Officer of AudioEye, Inc. "We are excited to welcome Harry to our team and look forward to his day-to-day involvement in AudioEye's strategic efforts to increase our penetration of the corporate market. We believe Harry's contributions will open the doors to an extensive pipeline of opportunities, and he has already begun to impact the growth of our Company."
"AudioEye's technology involving the voice-enablement and navigation of websites is what I consider the future of 'hands-free convenience communications', which can empower and enhance people in their daily lives and drive the creation of novel services and devices," noted Mr. Epstein. "I am extremely enthusiastic about participating in the Company's future success."
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Khan Academy, best known for its free online library of video tutorials, is using the summer months to offer in-person teacher trainings in places like Chicago, New Orleans, and Redwood City, California. The workshops are integrating what teachers and Khan Academy staff have learned over the past few years while experimenting with different ways of integrating videos and Khan assessments into classrooms.
“Now that we are a couple of years in it, we have enough evidence of really great teacher practices that we are trying to share with a broader audience,” said Khan Academy President Shantanu Sinha, at a training workshop in Redwood City earlier this week.
Khan Academy isn’t new to many educators. Thousands of teachers are using the videos to reinforce concepts, introduce ideas, or as review resources. And as Khan Academy has grown in use, it has also expanded beyond videos by offering things like practice exercises and a dashboard for teachers to track how students are doing on those exercises.
Teachers sign up their students as a class and can monitor if students are watching videos and if they’re doing the associated practice exercises. This back-end view of how well a student understands the material helps teachers determine who is ready to move on and who needs more help.
“We think you should have the power to look at your data and say, ‘These four kids are ready to get off Khan Academy and do a deep dive into a hands-on project,’” workshop facilitator Maureen Suhendra said. She emphasized that Khan Academy believes learning should be mastery-based, kids don’t move on to a new skill until they’ve mastered the foundational ones.“We’re not about sitting kids down and leaving them in front of computers all day,” Suhendra said. In fact, she told the teachers gathered that kids get tired of the videos and exercises if they are used for more than an hour.
“It’s not that Sal is a better teacher and, ‘Oh, let’s bring him into the classroom,” said Anne Hong, an eighth-grade math teacher at the training. “But more that you are extending learning beyond the classroom.” She’s found that allowing students to access the lessons online has freed her up to do more engaging projects and one-on-one work in the classroom.
Educators at the workshop also learned that the site shows how each video lines up with Common Core standards, broken down by grade level.While the core materials on the site are still centered on K-12 math instruction, Khan Academy is beginning to branch out into other subjects as well, building up its video library on subjects ranging from art history to computer science. Those areas aren’t as robust as the math content, but Sinha says the plan is to build in ways to demonstrate knowledge and learning that are appropriate to each subject.
Khan Academy will not be able to offer in-person trainings like this one to all its users, but the website still provides teachers with instructions on how to get started as well as those looking for new ideas. But for those who were able to attend, the workshop was valuable.
“With this whole flipped model and the new standards coming out, it is nice to have some guidance,” said middle school teacher Larkin O’Leary. “I don’t think they are going to tell me how to do it, but maybe just give me some more strategies or different ways of thinking.” Other teachers said it was nice to meet the people behind what can feel like a faceless product. And teachers isolated in classrooms throughout the school year love to network and get ideas from one another.
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