Delivering real world skills to ensure students are career ready.
Webinar Details:

Date: Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Time: 2PM ET/ 11AM PT
Presenters:
Beth Campolieto Marhanka, Head of the Gelardin New Media Center @ Gerogetown University
Koreen Pagano, Director of Enterprise Product Management, @ lynda.com
How Georgetown is leveraging lynda.com to prepare students for the 21st century workplace.
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Ensuring that students are prepared and equipped with the skills to succeed is of the highest importance these days. If you’re interested in preparing college students to start their careers, come learn more about how Georgetown University is successfully using lynda.com delivered through their Blackboard environment to increase students' levels of preparedness and in turn, their opportunities for success.

Attendees Will learn:
  1. The skill gap challenges facing students entering today’s workforce
  2. How lynda.com helps students bridge the college- to-career skills gap
  3. How Georgetown University is preparing students to be career-ready
Hear how Georgetown University has made significant strides in better preparing their students for successful careers while minimizing the burden placed on their faculty to teach these skills. Beth Campolieto Marhanka, Head of the Gelardin New Media Center will discuss how using the combination of lynda.com integrated within their Blackboard Learn environment, Georgetown students have become increasingly prepared to be successful members of the workforce.

Find out how you too can help close the workforce gap and get students hired by offering them real world skills.


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As Head of the Gelardin New Media Center at the Georgetown University Library, Beth Marhanka directs the new media literacy and learning programs as well as emerging technology initiatives. She and her staff also work closely with campus partners to support instructional technologies across the University. Before leading the New Media Center, Beth was a research and instruction librarian and web coordinator at Georgetown. Her passion is pushing the boundaries of library services by making emerging technologies and creativity tools more accessible to anyone with a desire to produce new knowledge. 
Beth Campolieto Marhanka, Head of the Gelardin New Media Center @ Georgetown University

Koreen Pagano, Director of Enterprise Product Management, @ lynda.com & Author of Immersive Learning

Koreen Pagano is passionate about technology for organizational learning, with an emphasis on performance improvement and behavior change. Her roots are in education, having received her MS in Curriculum and Instruction from Penn State University. In 1999, Koreen helped start Freire Charter School and in 2008 founded Tandem Learning, where she pioneered immersive learning in organizations by leveraging virtual worlds, games and simulations. An internationally recognized writer, speaker and organizational consultant, Koreen is currently Director of Product Management, Enterprise at lynda.com. She has taught graduate courses at Harrisburg University, blogs at Learning in Tandem, and authored the book Immersive Learning.
About lynda.com
lynda.com helps anyone in any organization learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve personal, academic, or professional goals. Users get unlimited access to a vast online library of high-quality, current, and engaging video tutorials taught by recognized experts and working professionals.

About Georgetown University
Georgetown University is one of the world’s leading academic and research institutions, offering a unique educational experience that prepares the next generation of global citizens to lead and make a difference in the world. We are a vibrant community of exceptional students, faculty, alumni and professionals dedicated to real-world applications of our research, scholarship, faith and service.
Established in 1789, Georgetown is the nation’s oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Drawing upon this legacy, we provide students with a world-class learning experience focused on educating the whole person through exposure to different faiths, cultures and beliefs.  With our Jesuit values and location in Washington, D.C., Georgetown offers students a distinct opportunity to learn, experience and understand more about the world.