Alex Gay

Alex Gay leads Product Marketing for Education within Adobe’s Creative Cloud Enterprise organization. Working in the Higher Education sector in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the US over the past 15 years has provided Alex with the opportunity to engage with faculty and academic leadership across the globe to find innovative ways of driving student success and employability through technology.

Prescan promotes paperless healthcare workflows with Adobe Acrobat Sign Solutions
Prescan was founded in the Netherlands in 2003 to help consumers gain access to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which is growing in popularity for its effectiveness in aiding early diagnoses
12-08-2022

Meeting the Needs of Gen Z Students
The oldest members of Generation Z are now in college — so, for educators, it’s worth figuring out what their educational needs are and how ...
05-27-2019

What Keeps Students Engaged?
What’s the top priority at your institution? If yours is like many higher education institutions, it probably has something to do with student engagement and ...
05-20-2019

Improve Student Retention through Digital Literacy
Student retention has become such a salient issue that we are hardly surprised by the statistics anymore. A 2018 National Student Clearinghouse study found that ...
05-13-2019

What Will Your Students Remember About Their Classes in 20 Years?
Twenty years from now, what do you hope your students will remember from the courses they take at your institution? Professor James M. Lang, director ...
05-06-2019

Creativity in the Classroom: When it Comes to Digital Literacy, Small Changes Can Have a Big Impact
According to MarketWatch, creativity is the No. 1 career skill employers are looking for.
04-29-2019

How to Ensure Big Creative Projects Make a Big Difference in Students’ Lives
“So much evidence shows that [projects] can benefit every student in terms of critical thinking, problem-solving, teamwork, communication, and leadership,” says Rick Vaz, director of ...
04-22-2019

Upgrading from Student Involvement to Engagement
What is student engagement, really? Educators would probably all agree that the student playing a game on his phone isn’t engaged, even if he looks ...
04-12-2019

Boosting Student Engagement Through Digital Literacy
In their Gen Z creativity study, Adobe found that 76 percent of students and 75 percent of teachers wish there were more of a focus ...
04-05-2019

3 Ways Design Print Communications Skills Can Cross Multiple Disciplines
“Almost 90 percent of respondents believe students who excel at creative problem-solving will have higher-earning job opportunities in the future,” found a study by Adobe. ...
04-01-2019

Audio/Video Stretches Student Coursework Beyond Written Research Papers
In today’s higher education classroom, it’s common to see video and audio used as a teaching tool through things like video lectures or instructional podcasts. ...
04-01-2019

Prepare Students for the Modern Workplace with Digital Storytelling
With skills like cloud computing and artificial intelligence topping the charts for in-demand work skills, should professors bother encouraging skills like digital storytelling? The answer ...
04-01-2019