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Rio Salado College in Tempe, Arizona, serves more than 54,000 students from a broad spectrum of backgrounds. This interview with Michael Medlock, associate dean of instructional design and technology, explores how Rio designs online learning to serve all its students.

“Yes” may be the word that all salespeople want to hear, but Andrea Waltz knows that to a salesperson, the word “no” is just as important, maybe even more so. She is one half of the two-person team behind the best-selling sales book Go for No!, which encourages salespeople to push for a “no” rather than avoiding it.

Fear and anxiety can keep many educators from embracing open educational resources and open pedagogy. Here, “open” proponents explain common concerns.

Many institutions interested in using design thinking start by bringing in consultants. But any institution interested in trying out design thinking may already have all the expertise it needs on campus: its own faculty.

Pipedrive is honored to bring together eight renowned sales leaders and to share their insights on the state of the sales industry with our customers and friends. We asked each expert what they thought was most notable in the wonderful world of sales in 2016 and what they expect to see more of in 2017.

Despite the fact that adaptive learning experts have settled the definition question, many rank-and-file educators still use the terms “personalized” and “adaptive” interchangeably.

Blended learning — the hybrid of classroom instruction and online learning — is gaining traction because it has the potential to engage students and improve outcomes and because of a growing awareness that the traditional lecture model has largely been proven to be a less effective. But faculty used to the traditional lecture model may find themselves asking “what is blended learning.”

ProSales Systems’s mission statement:

“This is a portrait of a high performance sales team, one made possible by a revolutionary idea: team selling.”

One challenge for those who are considering bringing adaptive learning into their higher education programs is knowing what, exactly, other professionals and companies using the same terminology are referring to.