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JW Marshall interviews the people building the future of eLearning

Voices of eLearning is a MarketScale channel hosted by JW Marshall, focused on the educators, administrators, and technology leaders driving change in universities and corporate training programs. Marshall conducts in-depth interviews that surface the decisions behind curriculum design, learning platforms, and workforce development strategy. The channel serves EdTech vendors, instructional designers, and institutional buyers seeking peer-level insight.

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Channel Brief·Voices of eLearning · 1 episode
Updated Jun 23, 2021

Learning gains, not losses: corporate partnerships reshape education recovery

Voices of eLearning documents how major institutions are moving past pandemic disruption narratives to engineer measurable student progress. The channel grounds this shift in real partnerships and stated educational intent.

The channel argues that the education sector should reframe pandemic response away from loss mitigation toward active learning gains that strengthen students as they return to in-person instruction. This thesis appears in the lead episode through a partnership model: Khan Academy and AT&T are collaborating to develop new educational content and solutions aimed at elevating the student experience, positioning learning recovery as an affirmative engineering challenge rather than a deficit problem.

Drawn from How Khan Academy and AT&T Focus on Learning Ga… →

“Khan Academy and AT&T are focusing on engineering learning gains that will elevate students' experience as they return to campus this fall.”

Voices of eLearning episode summary, June 2021

By the numbers

No hard numeric data

None stated in available episode text

What the channel argues

InsightKhan Academy and AT&T partnered to create new educational content focused on learning gains for returning students.→

What you'll learn

•How major education nonprofits and corporations frame pandemic recovery as a gains problem rather than a losses problem.
•The mechanics of cross-sector partnerships between edtech platforms and Fortune 500 companies in student support.
•Why focusing on learning gains rather than learning loss shapes the solutions offered to students returning to campus.

What to do about it

→Reframe your learning recovery narrative from loss mitigation to active progress engineering when communicating with stakeholders.
→Explore partnerships with complementary organizations (edtech platforms, corporate sponsors) to develop new content rather than merely remediate gaps.
→Measure and communicate learning gains, not just recovery of pre-pandemic baselines, when reporting student outcomes.

Who and what shows up

Sal Khan

Founder, Khan Academy

Brought insights on learning gains and recovery strategy to live episode discussion of student return to campus.

Mylayna Albright

Assistant Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility, AT&T

Represented corporate perspective on educational partnership and solutions delivery to students across the country.

Khan Academy

Educational nonprofit platform

Partnered with AT&T to develop new educational content aimed at learning gains for returning students.

AT&T

Telecommunications and corporate social responsibility

Contributed to solutions and new educational content alongside Khan Academy to serve students across the country.

Questions this channel answers

Q

Should education focus on learning loss or learning gains in pandemic recovery?

Khan Academy and AT&T chose to focus on engineering learning gains that elevate student experience as they return to campus, rather than centering on losses from disruption.

How Khan Academy and AT&T Focus on Learning Gains Not Lo… →
Topics:Educational partnerships and corporate social responsibilityLearning loss and recovery frameworksStudent return-to-campus transitions
Themes:Reframing pandemic recovery as an affirmative learning opportunityCorporate-nonprofit partnerships in educationGains-based metrics over deficit-based narratives

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