Eric Braun

Boston

I am passionate about using hands-on approaches with digital technology to help students reach a higher level of learning in a blended classroom. I believe the future of learning is Collaborative, Social and Student-centric, allowing students to engage anywhere, any time and on any device, using curated digital content from multiple sources, including KhanAcademy, MIT, Stanford, YouTube, Google, Moodle, etc. The essence of this learning is providing project-based learning, supplemented with multimedia content and facilitated by a teacher as coach. – At the college level, I teach a 3-month immersion course on Starting a Company that I developed to give first hand experience in entrepreneurship. I'm an adjunct faculty member teaching a variety of subjects. I cofounded and coached Destination ImagiNation teams (K-8) for 6 years in my town. Over the years, I have taught German language at the University level and conducted numerous training classes for new software systems. - As an entrepreneur, I have founded and cofounded a handful of companies related to high tech and education. In the late 1990s, my first startup developed a learning collaborative for the College Boards to be used for faculty sharing and we helped test and document one of the first online LMS companies. Outside of EdTech, we developed the first comprehensive online Proxy Voting application, which also served as a design prototype for early online Surveys as we see today in Survey Monkey.