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MAY 5, 2017

More on last week’s Purdue and Kaplan deal: “ Purdue ’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries – especially among faculty groups – about blurred lines between public and private higher ed,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”

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AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” There are more stories about Purdue University Global, formerly the for-profit Kaplan University, in the “labor and management” section below. National) Education Politics. Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing.

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APRIL 28, 2017

” asks WaPo’s Valerie Strauss, before reprinting an article by UVA professor Dan Willingham.). Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. Via Campus Technology : “ Pearson Expands Textbook Rental Program.”

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Campus Technology : “The University of North Dakota has teamed up with for-profit training company Woz U to provide short-term technology education programs.” ” It’s not the last mile of education.

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MAY 19, 2017

Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. Via Edsurge : “Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1.” What’s his evidence that technology has not eliminated jobs – other than this weird insistence that there is no such thing as neoliberalism in ed-tech ?

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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JULY 14, 2017

Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. Speaking of predictions about the future of online education, EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin pens part 2 of his look at Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn ’s prediction that “ by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet.”

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Although the shooting is a local story, I am putting many of the articles here in the national section because, over a week later, it is still very much in the national headlines. National) Education Politics. “Open.”

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JUNE 2, 2017

” No disclosure in the article that Edsurge shares investors with both these companies. Inside Higher Ed writes about accreditation and the “Fine Print and Tough Questions for the Purdue-Kaplan Deal.” Via Edsurge : “ BrightBytes Tried to Buy Hapara. Accreditation and Certification.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

The reversal of Obama-era policies designed to protect students from predatory for-profits , particularly with a series of decisions about student loans – enough that this warrants its own article in this series. Nevertheless, she was confirmed on 7 February as the Secretary of Education. Not Neurocore, for example.).

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MARCH 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Edsurge : “ Office of Edtech Wants Help Making Sense of All Those Higher Ed Providers.” ” And I am not even linking to the National Review article promoting this racist crap. National) Education Politics.

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