Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.
Edsurge
JUNE 1, 2017
Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University. Then yep, we’re on board.”
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Hack Education
APRIL 20, 2018
Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. “We know it works.” ” “We know it matters.” ” Bloom says so.
Edsurge
MARCH 1, 2017
Attendees will also hear from other speakers including Heather Hiles (Deputy Dir Solutions for Postsecondary at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Bror Saxberg (CLO at Kaplan), and more. Here’s a sneak peek at our calendars for next week, including all the sessions and happenings that you (and we) don’t want to miss.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
According to David Callahan, editor of the website Inside Philanthropy and author of the 2017 book The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy , philanthropists have more power than ever before, and “that influence is likely to grow far greater in coming decades.” Perhaps that name, Betsy DeVos, is familiar.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 28, 2016
I’ve written two books on the monsters of education technology; I’m publishing a third in the series at the end of the year. We tend to read the book as a cautionary tale about science gone awry. “Books will soon be obsolete in schools” – Thomas Edison, 1913. I will still try to be brutally frank.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” “ Marvel Announces Science, Tech, and Math-Devoted Comic Book Covers,” Popular Science reports.
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