Mitchell Weisburgh

Mitch Weisburgh is a partner at Academic Business Advisors and has overseen development and marketing of systems, content, curriculum, and courses across the spectrum of K-12, Postsecondary, corporate training, and job readiness for over ten years.

Mitch co-authored the SIIA guide to the Postsecondary Market and is a national speaker at conferences on education technology in both K12 and higher education. He writes the PilotED blog and is on the Boards of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) Education Division and Youth Rights Media. In 2014 he co-founded Edchat Interactive, which provides live interactive online PD to share best practices among educators. In 2015 he organized the first Games for Education Summit, which brought together individuals from different sectors of education to discuss and start planning ways to increase the use of games in schools, and is co-chairing Games for Education, which establishes collaborations between educators, researchers, game developers, publishers and policy makers to further the use of games and other immersive learning strategies in schools to help the education sector fulfill the mission of preparing all children to become successful 21st century learners and citizens.

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