By: Erika Navarro
Orbis Communications, tucked away in Hamilton, Ontario, is quietly changing the future of post-secondary education for the better.
Co-Founders Devin Grady, Sandor Mezei and Cameron Ballantyne, have built the rising tech company around the idea that co-op and “experiential” education is the way of the future for both colleges and universities around the world. And the plan is paying off.
With a growing customer base that includes post-secondary institutions in every province, such as University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, and Dalhousie University, as well as schools in California, Massachusetts, Indiana and Florida, including UC San Diego and University of Rhode Island, Orbis’ vision of the future is being shared by educational heavyweights.
The 15 employee company specializes in producing software solutions to manage and record experiential education programs at post-secondary institutions, such as co-op programs. Orbis is one of the few companies in the world working in this field and it’s the largest in Canada.
The company was the first to introduce Canadian Co-Curricular Record (CCR) software to organize, track and manage the CCR process, complete with ties to documented learning outcomes. Since then, schools across North America are utilizing the platforms to not only track student progress in an academic process but also looking at how it can be expanded to help students land their first job out of school.
The current platform can also be used by students as a virtual resume, tracking their achievements and experience which they can then use when applying for jobs, but Ballantyne sees this going even further where the perfect student is matched with the ideal employer to make the hiring process more efficient.
The next challenge, according to Ballantyne, is to work toward cataloguing the experiential learning that occurs at every institution to overlay it against government, economic and institutional data to provide valuable insight into employment and education trends.
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In Depth: Orbis Communications
By: Erika Navarro
Orbis Communications, tucked away in Hamilton, Ontario, is quietly changing the future of post-secondary education for the better.
Co-Founders Devin Grady, Sandor Mezei and Cameron Ballantyne, have built the rising tech company around the idea that co-op and “experiential” education is the way of the future for both colleges and universities around the world. And the plan is paying off.
With a growing customer base that includes post-secondary institutions in every province, such as University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, and Dalhousie University, as well as schools in California, Massachusetts, Indiana and Florida, including UC San Diego and University of Rhode Island, Orbis’ vision of the future is being shared by educational heavyweights.
The 15 employee company specializes in producing software solutions to manage and record experiential education programs at post-secondary institutions, such as co-op programs. Orbis is one of the few companies in the world working in this field and it’s the largest in Canada.
The company was the first to introduce Canadian Co-Curricular Record (CCR) software to organize, track and manage the CCR process, complete with ties to documented learning outcomes. Since then, schools across North America are utilizing the platforms to not only track student progress in an academic process but also looking at how it can be expanded to help students land their first job out of school.
The current platform can also be used by students as a virtual resume, tracking their achievements and experience which they can then use when applying for jobs, but Ballantyne sees this going even further where the perfect student is matched with the ideal employer to make the hiring process more efficient.
The next challenge, according to Ballantyne, is to work toward cataloguing the experiential learning that occurs at every institution to overlay it against government, economic and institutional data to provide valuable insight into employment and education trends.
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