Michael Horn Joins Core Learning Exchange Advisory Board

Boulder, CO - February 16, 2016 – Core Learning Exchange (corelearningexchange.com) (Core-LX) announces that education reform and disruptive innovation expert Michael Horn, co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and author of “Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools,” has joined its Board of Advisors.

Mr. Horn is recognized internationally for his leadership in the transformation to a student-centered teaching pedagogy and for his advocacy for online learning, blended learning, and competency-based teaching methodologies. He serves on the boards of numerous academic institutions, think tanks, and investment funds focused on unlocking technology to advance achievement for all students, with a special interest in serving low-income students.

In October 2015, Mr. Horn left the Clayton Christensen Institute to embark on a new career path. “The significant focus in my next stage of life will be to work with education companies that I believe will help shape the future of education,” Mr. Horn states.  “Core-LX is among the first companies I’ve chosen to work with post-Christensen. Core-LX’s disruptive, crowd-sourcing approach to content creation is a creative, market-based strategy for making personalized learning available to all.”

“Michael Horn literally wrote the book on the competency-based, personalized and blended learning philosophy that underpins the design of our platform,” says Jeff Katzman, CEO, Core-LX. “With his guidance, we believe that we refocus education around student achievement, especially for kids on the margins. We’re honored and excited to advance and scale educational reforms with him.”

Core-LX is a Boulder, CO, startup dedicated to bringing cost-effective personalized learning to students and teachers through the CoreCollection curated marketplace, CoreCreator authoring tool for educational content, and CoreClassroom personalized learning management platform.  Entrepreneur Magazine recently named Core-LX as one of “5 Fascinating Edtech Companies From National Education Week.”

Mr Michael Horn serves on the boards of Fidelis Education, Education Elements, Global Personalized Academics, the Silicon Schools Fund, the National Association of Independent Schools, and the Minerva Institute. He also advises Intellus Learning, Pedago, Knod, Everest Education, AltSchool, Degreed, the Education Innovation Advisory Board at Arizona State University, and the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Teachers College, Columbia University, and he is an executive editor at Education Next.  Additionally, he is a director of the Education + Technology fund, a joint philanthropic project of Robin Hood, the Overdeck Family Foundation, and the Siegel Family Endowment.
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