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Nonprofit University Buys For-Profit College For Its Tech Platform

Edsurge

But it was not initially clear what technology platform UniversityNow had left to sell, since in 2015 the company sold its competency-based learning platform to Penn Foster Education Group. Our goal is to build a library of digital content broken down into its smallest possible components.”.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. But in 2010, the company, co-founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, announced that it would no longer offer a free version.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

Thanks to a relatively new state policy, all spring Clarke went to the school library during second period for an online sociology class. “It But after the state stopped covering the cost, the number of spots filled in the semester-long online classes dropped precipitously, from 22,899 in 2010-11 to 5,757 in 2013-14.