313: Free2Degree - with Chip Paucek, Co-Founder & CEO, 2U & Anant Agarwal, Founder & CEO, edX

<p>We welcome YOU back to America's leading higher education podcast, <strong>The EdUp Experience</strong>! &nbsp;In this episode, YOUR guests are <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/chippaucek"><strong>Chip Paucek</strong></a><strong>, </strong>Co-Founder &amp; CEO at <a href="https://2u.com/"><strong>2U</strong></a><strong>,</strong> &amp;<strong> </strong><a href="http://linkedin.com/in/agarwaledu"><strong>Anant Agarwal</strong></a><strong>, </strong>Founder &amp; CEO at <a href="https://www.edx.org/"><strong>edX</strong></a>, &amp; YOUR sponsor is&nbsp;<a href="https://www.weareglacier.org/?utm_campaign=Company%20Social%20Page&amp;utm_source=linkedin&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=home-pg" target="_blank"><strong>Glacier</strong></a>!</p> <p>In this amazing episode, Joe talks with Chip &amp; Anant about the 2U &amp; edX merger. &nbsp;This landmark deal changes the landscape within higher education by bringing the free to degree student journey to life. &nbsp;Chip &amp; Anant discuss how the merger came to be, what point in time learning may look like, &amp; the expectations for conversion of edX traffic to degrees powered by 2U. &nbsp;Chip was a previous guest, we‘re excited to have him back &amp; welcome Anant for the first time!</p> <p>Chip Paucek's innovative work at 2U has earned him many accolades, including the Ernst &amp; Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2012, the Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs Award in 2013, &amp; multiple Highest Rated CEO awards from Glassdoor. In 2017, Paucek was named among America's best chief executives by Institutional Investor magazine, ranking third among mid-cap technology, media, &amp; telecom companies.</p> <p>Anant Agarwal is the Founder &amp; CEO of edX &amp; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Prof. Anant won the Maurice Wilkes prize for computer architecture, &amp; MIT's Smullin &amp; Jamieson prizes for teaching. He is also the 2016 recipient of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize for Higher Education, which recogniz