DesignWorlds for Learning Inc

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Dr. Ted M. Kahn is the co-founder, President and CEO of DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc. and Chief Learning Officer for DesignWords for College and Careers. He has been actively involved in developing and marketing innovative uses of interactive technologies for creative lifelong learning for over 36 years. Over the past 18 years, his special areas of expertise have been in the uses of digital video and multimedia, as well as the Internet and the Web, as media for supporting distributed learning and knowledge design communities.

Selected by the ESCOT Principal Investigators and working under subcontract to SRI International, DesignWorlds played a key role on the evaluation team for this innovative project. The ESCOT investigators chose DesignWorlds for its unique experience in advanced learning-technology R&D , development of award-winning commercial educational technology products and research projects (particularly in K-12 mathematics and science), and our focus on designing and supporting distributed online collaborative learning communities .

Apple picked DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc., based primarily on the company?s unique experience and its wide circle of outstanding colleagues who can come together quickly to master complex challenges . DesignWorlds has access to professionals such as media teachers, innovative web designers, writers, and Hollywood animators and story developers?ideal team members for collaborative multimedia projects. DesignWorlds President and CEO, Dr. Ted Kahn was a particular asset for the Apple project. During digital video?s early years, Dr.

Frona L. Kahn, Vice President and co-founder of DesignWorlds, has helped shape the education technology industry for over 20 years. Her work with top Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations, including Apple, PBS, Compaq and Fisher-Price, Computer Curriculum Corporation, Microsoft, Grolier, and Gateway Learning Corporation have made technology desirable and accessible to schools and families.

Gottsman serves on boards of several Silicon Valley startup companies; the Center for International Leadership in Washington, D.C. and served on the board of the now merged Institute for Research on Learning. He was a co-founder of an Orange County incubator, GazelleLab. He has been active in the World Future Society for over 20 years, and is Chair for the 2003 WFS conference in San Francisco. He is Chair of the Silicon Valley Node of the United Nations Millennium Project. Gottsman is a Senior Associate with the Foresight Institute's program in nanotechnology.

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