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Finding the Right Talent to Build an Edtech Company That Is Loved and Lasts

Edsurge

Not every company can be Facebook or Google, offering free catered meals and colorful open spaces, but there are ways to build positive work environments with productive and happy employees on a smaller budget. Building Up Values For some companies, mission statements only live on a web page. Looking for a new role?

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Will a Netflix Model Work for Textbooks?

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Mercier, who’s starting his second year studying business management at City, University of London’s Cass Business School in a couple of weeks, found three of them on a new service called Perlego , a UK-based company which wants to be the Netflix of academic content. The service has a premium version that costs about $20 a month.

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U. of Arizona Bought a For-Profit U. for $1? Actually, the For-Profit Paid Millions to Be Acquired.

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Except that Ashford’s parent company will end up paying millions to Arizona to make it happen, leading New America’s Kevin Carey, the group’s director of education policy programs, to argue in a widely shared Tweet that “it’s not really a purchase at all.” In 2017, Purdue University bought Kaplan University , also for $1.

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2017 GlobalEdCon (November 13 - 16) - Register Now, Incredible Program!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The 8th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) November 13 - 16, 2017 The Global Education Conference Network's eigth annual world-wide collaboration on globally-connected education will take place around the clock starting Monday, November 13, and continuing through Thursday, November 16.

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Schools and Colleges Try Virtual Reality Science Labs. But Can VR Replace a Cadaver?

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And a range of companies have recently started offering products to outfit such digital alternatives. Those companies include tech giants as well as smaller players. Google has partnered with science education company Labster to create an online biology degree program with virtual reality labs.

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Makerspaces Event Recordings + "Are You Global Ready?" The 2017 GEC Online Conference Is Coming!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The 8th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) November 13 - 16, 2017 The Global Education Conference Network's eighth annual worldwide collaboration on globally-connected education will take place around the clock starting Monday, November 13, and continue through Thursday, November 16.

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To un-muzzle upstart Negros, we need black-owned news media

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If there have been any gains recently, they have mostly gone to big names such as The New York Times, which surpassed four million total subscribers in 2018, a milestone for the company, and The Washington Post, which set company records by crossing the million subscriber mark in 2017.