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This is Chris Redgrave for Zions Bank Speaking on Business.
It started as a nickname friends and colleagues gave her — Driven Diven — but it actually fits...After all, Tracy Diven started her first company at 24 and her latest company, Cranium Café, is taking off in the education community ...
Cranium Café is a communication platform integrated into popular Learning Management Systems ... It's designed to serve those completing online education where you never set foot on campus so you don't meet any of your classmates..... You can log into Cranium Café and see a list of everybody in your class, including pictures and bios and then set cafe hours for when you're available.... Classmates can use the info to engage in an online video meeting with you..... It's a safe way to meet up with fellow classmates for study sessions, projects or engage in tutoring sessions.
Cranium Café is browser based so there's nothing to download, and it's written in five different program languages....It's a really high-level, easy-to-use online communication platform....
Studies show that people who have face-to-face communication build strong relationships and bonds with their school, so it's likely this platform could help increase graduation and course completion rates...Cranium Café is designed to solve the problem of making help accessible without being awkward.... Not only can students connect, but it also encourages communication and relationships between students and the institution, creating loyalty and benefitting the university since students are more likely to graduate...
Cranium Café is a great way to support business initiatives like Prosperity 2020, with a goal of having 66 percent of Utahns with a postsecondary degree or certificate by 2020.
Tracy credits her talented team for Cranium Café's success so far. One of her designers is Michael Gorham, and she says only a few other people in the state can match his skills as a software engineer. They came together and built this with Tracy's vision and drive to fix a communication disconnect in online education ... Next step is to implement Cranium Cafe at K through 12 grade schools and other universities internationally...
For Zions Bank, I'm Chris Redgrave, speaking on business.
Cranium Cafe PO Box 1285 Bountiful, UT 84011 801-634-6898 www.craniumcafe.com
