Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006.

EdTech 184

EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 184

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

She also holds two Master of Science Degrees in Higher Education minoring in Teaching and Learning and Online Technology from Kaplan University now Purdue University. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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Conference Kaplan Learning Libraries 41

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

She also holds two Master of Science Degrees in Higher Education minoring in Teaching and Learning and Online Technology from Kaplan University now Purdue University. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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Conference Kaplan Learning Libraries 36

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Even what online growth there is may be slowing; Purdue University, which in 2017 bought the former for-profit Kaplan University and turned it into the online Purdue Global, has seen double-digit increases in enrollment, the university says, but Purdue President Mitch Daniels has publicly raised caution flags.

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Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 74

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Enrollment at for-profit schools has plummeted by 26 percent since its peak in 2009. Two big companies, Kaplan and DeVry, quit APSCU last year. Previously known as the Career College Association, the organization last changed its name in 2010. Several have closed. Annual revenues have collectively fallen by $2.3

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

” There were some high-profile academic hires however, including John Vogel (Dartmouth), Don Sexton (Columbia), Jack Kaplan (Columbia), and Roger Schank (Carnegie Mellon). Two of the largest companies in 2009 are now bankrupt, and two more are in the process of being taken private.

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Education Technology Company Industry 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. There were several high profile closures of bootcamps — Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc.,

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