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We are pleased to announce GoingOn Networks has been named a finalist in the SIIA CODiE awards for Best Education Community Solution!  Read Full Article

We are thrilled to announce the newest addition to the GoingOn team: Beth Styles, VP of Product.  Beth is joining Annette DeNoyer, Director of Product Management, in our product team.  Beth is responsible for all aspects of the product life cycle ensuring that we provide innovative solutions that deliver against our mission of building the connected campus and delighting our customers.

Dr. Rodney Murray, of Rod's Pulse Podcast, recently interviewed our CEO, Jon Corshen, on his e-learning tech podcast.  Listen to this fireside chat style podcast for the following nuggets:

• How GoingOn got started at University of Pennsylvania
• What we learned from students at Emory University about how they want to consumer academic info streams and how we've updated our UI to reflect that
• How we help clients integrate with LMSs 

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Somehow I missed this video interview of our CEO, Jon Corshen at EDUCAUSE in October.  But, better late than never.  For your viewing pleasure, a 10 minute interview with GoingOn's CEO about our company's vision and goals.  

Watch the video to learn

• Why Jon is so passionate about higher education student engagement
• Why it's time to move beyond the course 
• How social web technologies applied to campus communications can enhance student engagement. 

The best part of my job is getting to see what amazing projects our clients are working on, and it is particularly gratifying when the GoingOn platform is a key component in making those projects work. We recently announced a partnership with SUNY Empire State College and we are already seeing the great work they are doing.  Hosted on the GoingOn platform, the Project for Critical Inquiry (PCI) at Empire State College is a "venue for interdisciplinary work in an open learning environment."  By combining access to a wealth of educational resources with the mentorship of a faculty member, the Project for Critical Inquiry develops students who are not passive consumers of information, but rather have a deep understanding of the context and implications of a body of knowledge.   Read Full Article

We just completed our most popular webinar yet.  Our CEO, Jon Corshen is joined by Eli Lesser, Director of Summer Sessions at the College of Liberal and Professional Studies at University of Pennsylvania.  Together, they discuss how universities like Penn are moving beyond the course to a virtual campus, including the challenges and triumphs associated with that change. This is a great chance to hear from a cutting edge university who we have been working with since 2009.  Read Full Article

The top nine reasons to join the GoingOn team!  As we are currently hiring a Drupal developer and we are almost always hiring for one or two roles, I wanted to shed some light on what it's like to work at GoingOn.  Here are nine reasons to work at GoingOn:

Fast Growth
GoingOn is expanding at an aggressive pace, and we are offering many exciting job opportunities for you to grow with us.  Read Full Article

National Writing Project (NWP), our partner and client, is a network of educators working to improve the teaching of writing across 200 nationwide chapter sites. We've recently partnered with them to connect their nationwide members and enable greater collaboration and exchanging of ideas. They launched NWP Connect as an "open, interactive online community where educators can share ideas and explore practices connected to the teaching of writing and the work of the National Writing Project."  The best part is that each local chapter can create it's own community, distinct in look and feel, but connected to all other communities such that content and identities can traverse the network.   Read Full Article

We are proud to announce that Melissa Loble is the latest addition to our team. Melissa brings 15 years of experience in higher education, K12 and corporate environments focused on improving the quality of education for students of all ages.  She is a faculty member at Pepperdine's masters in Learning Technologies program. Over the past seven years, she has designed and taught a variety of courses for this program, including Managing Technology for Change, Curriculum & Technology, Leadership and the Practicing Professional.  Read Full Article