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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

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EdSurge: When you arrived at Southern New Hampshire back in 2003, there were some online courses but just a few. So I get here in 2003, and there were about 18 people [teaching] and a few hundred students [online]. We should own this as an industry. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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New Markets Venture Partner’s Latest Edtech Fund Closes at $68 Million

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The mid-Atlantic region near New Markets’ headquarters in Fulton, Maryland is home to some of the education industry’s biggest names, including Blackboard, EverFi, Laureate Education and 2U. Today, he believes that the Every Student Succeeds Act is the latest linchpin policy to shape the K-12 market.

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What Can Traditional Higher Ed Learn From Hamburger U?

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Kidwell: Back in 2003, real estate was a crazy market. Because our policy is different. There’s a very deliberate expectation that program design would include a kind of conversation around what they call the “local industry clusters.” What did you learn from that experience that you bring to your work in higher education?

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. By Robert Low. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. The edtech industry made big strides during this era. It was a policy change that greatly encouraged the growth of “telecommunications correspondence” courses.

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What Happens When Ed-Tech Forgets? Some Thoughts on Rehabilitating Reputations

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It's entertaining, I guess — the dinosaurs and the Neanderthals and the Industrial Revolution, and stuff like that. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. "The only thing that matters is the future," Levandoski told the magazine.

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A New Social Science? Statistics Outgrowing Other STEM Fields

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Overall, the number of statistics bachelor’s degrees has grown from 526 in 2003 to 1,678 in 2013. Our graduates are getting excellent jobs in industry with a statistics degree. For instance, since 2003, the number of schools granting undergraduate statistics degrees has increased from 74 to more than 110 in 2013.

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