How Integrating LinkedIn with Onboarding Students Helps Engage Alumni

LinkedIn integration is an essential feature of onboarding through Stekio. When students get into the business program, they’re instantly connected to each other’s profiles through the app – LinkedIn Group or no LinkedIn Group. Stekio is also their communication platform. It’s what they’ll use during the program – and after. Alumni engagement managers can instantly…

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Why iPads are Still the Best Corporate Training Platform

As the Google ChromeBook took a bite out of Apple’s market share of the education market, we took a closer look at what’s happening. While we’re ultimately aiming to provide an experience that’s platform-agnostic, iPads are still where we see Stekio providing value for corporate education administrators and learners alike. From what we can see,…

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Why Business Schools Need to Change Their Alumni Engagement Strategy

Business programs live or die long-term based on the results they see after learners have left their programs. Grads get hired, or increasingly get busy hiring others for their fast-growth startups – and that’s where the bragging rights begin. Alumni engagement for business schools with those walking success stories translates into large endowments and boosted…

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Paper Cuts Are Good for You. How to Get Education Costs Down

Going paperless is hard for traditional learning organizations. We should know: between developing Stekio from a back-of-the-napkin idea into a collaborative learning solution, we naturally wanted to find out about the challenges that business education and corporate training programs were actually facing. We ended up talking to the business program heads at MIT, Harvard, Brown…

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Flexibility and Collaboration. Columbia University on Stekio

Flexibility and Collaboration. Columbia University on Stekio Columbia University is among the oldest and best of America’s Ivy League research universities. It has a rich heritage, with its Upper Manhattan location continuing its legacy as the oldest institution of higher learning in New York state – and the fifth-oldest in the USA. While Columbia’s reputation…

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How STEKIO Onboards Learners

The STEKIO Intuitive Program Management Platform and iPad app aims to enhance and simplify the onboarding and profile management processes for program administrators.  Through our research and feedback from institutions and organizations, onboarding has been identified as a very manual and cumbersome process for program administrators, currently accomplished using a combination of programs and tools.…

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The Apple + IBM partnership and its positive impact on STEKIO

On July 15, 2014, Apple and IBM announced a software and device partnership for enterprise.  As a result of the partnership, companies will have access to more than 100 new IBM MobileFirst for iOS enterprise solutions, IBM cloud services and offerings for activation and management of iOS devices, and a new AppleCare service and support…

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Measuring Success in Education

How does an executive education institution measure success?  For most institutions today it is a function of marketing success – i.e. enrolment, data derived from surveys and the basic alumni feedback.  But most institutions have come to realize that such metrics do not guarantee recurring enrolment or the continued success of a program.  As economic…

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