<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear ITSA Community,</div><div><br></div><div>This is a reminder about the upcoming ITSA General Membership meeting scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, April 24, 2016 at 1:00 pm -2:00 pm in Tupper Hall 102. We are serving lunch and refreshments. Find more about our invited guests from TutorGen. We look forward to seeing you.</div><div><br></div><div><span><div id="id_56f3131103b729193911327">ITSA is honored to host two guest speakers from the company TutorGen. <br><br><b> Company Description:</b><br> TutorGen is an adaptive learning company that is building platform agnostic software that help learners, teachers, administrators and publishers. TutorGen uses existing content developed by subject matter experts and adapts to learners using big data and machine learning. Using our research backed proprietary software, learners get the problems and content in the order that they need it, teachers understand where each learner and class(es) are against problems, Administration know where they need to support their teachers, and finally publishers get the data they have always needed to make learning ordered in the most e<span>...</span><span>ffective and efficient way possible. TutorGen’s learning software can be used on almost any content, in any connected system.<br><br> TutorGen is an ed-tech startup, located in northern Kentucky, and has received 3 NSF SBIR Grants. We are connected in the academic, governmental and private sector addressing knowledge acquisition and competency gain of learners at any age. <br><br><b> Who we are:</b><br> Dr. John Stamper is the CEO and Founder of TutorGen and is a member of the faculty at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the Technical Director of the Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center DataShop. His background information can be found here: <a href="http://l.facebook.com/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.stamper.org%2F&e=ATMDo0X5A8aippr5DX3FSwSUzSztn5EgWoTQPhC0ishoj-ENJGvOFtw4USNA8Q" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><font color="#0066cc">http://dev.stamper.org/</font></a><br><font color="#0066cc"><br></font> Adam Helbig is the Director of Business Development and Operations and is focused on all levels of education. Currently, he is a member of the Northern Kentucky Education Council, part time instructor at Ohio University and a consultant for education focused non-profits. He cofounded an education startup and has spent time in past 15 years the prek-12, higher-ed and corporate education. <br><br> What your members can expect:<br> We would want to have an active discussion with your members about their interests in instructional technology. We love talking about data, the use of data in education and challenges in the current environment. We can also talk about starting an ed-tech startup, the education community and what we see is needed. Finally, we are open to any questions that your members may have around education and instructional technology.</span></div></span><div id="id_56f3131103b729193911327"><br>-- <br></div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Warmest Regards,<br>Tracy Robinson</div><div>ITSA President<br></div></div>
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