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Edtech Bootstrapping 101: A Survival Story

Edsurge

Summer 2014 After 10 years in business, our tutoring company, SurePrep Learning goes under after the elimination of a federal tutoring program. October 2014 My wife and I patch things up. As a former video game designer for Sony Playstation, I’m pretty sure this is going to be easy. My mom passes away. The wait begins.

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Impatient with universities’ slow pace of change, employers go around them

The Hechinger Report

Scott Gordon had just arrived in his job as provost of Eastern Washington University when an alumnus approached him at a meet-and-greet in the Skyline Ballroom of Spokane’s Hotel RL. million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials. Soni is more blunt.

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This Workforce Partnership Trains Tech Talent. Can It Boost Civic Engagement Too?

Edsurge

That forced him to sit in the front row of a session where he would meet Deborah Acosta, then San Leandro’s chief innovation officer. Roughly 200 local employers, including Kaiser Permanente, OSISoft, Sony and Typeform, have also participated. Today there are three main components to PilotCity’s programming.

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Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing

Hack Education

The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior College (ACCJC), the accreditor for California’s community colleges, lost its appeal to the Department of Education in January and will have a year to resolve the issues surrounding its not meeting federal accreditation standards. How is “quality” defined?

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

Both had been acquired by for-profit college companies, a convenient target – no surprise – for entrepreneurial blame at the bootcamps’ failures: Dev Bootcamp was bought in 2014 by Kaplan Inc and Iron Yard was acquired in 2015 by the Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix.