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Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance

EdTech Magazine

Understandably, there is still some hesitation at the idea of using this technology, as education professionals fear the day robots will replace teachers. Programs like Century Tech use AI to study student engagement and responses in order to help teachers and education administrators understand how their students learn.

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

Edsurge

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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By Putting Tensions on Stage, Colleges Aim to Change Campus Culture

Edsurge

Despite lofty college mission statements, higher education is not always a welcoming place. Major studies reveal that sexual harassment is pervasive in some disciplines, discrimination strains women and people of color , and bias leaches into everything from teaching to tenure promotion. Kaplan says.

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Yes There’s ‘Disruption’ in College Market, But the Bigger Trend Is Growth of ‘Enabler’ Companies

Edsurge

The rallying cry among many higher-education startups is “disrupting” college as we know it. But the intense focus on “disruption” as a guiding principle often overlooks that delivering higher education is a large, diversified, and resilient market— $600 billion in the U.S. The Rise of Enablement Businesses.

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Three Years In, Minerva’s Founder On For-Profits, Selectivity, and His Critics

Edsurge

EdSurge sat down with Nelson this week at the ASU+GSV Summit, as part of our Thought Leader Interview series on the future of education. They get their Harvard Business case studies from the for-profit arm of Harvard University. A few years ago,we received requests, about 250 institutions of higher education to work together.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

(National) Education Politics. US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos ’ “learning curve where higher ed is concerned is quite vertical,” quips UC president Janet Napolitano. The Chronicle of Higher Education has more on Napolitano’s remarks at a lunch at UC’s Washington Center.

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Education Technology and the 'New' For-Profit Higher Education

Hack Education

Trump University and the History of the Future of For-Profit Higher Education. If nothing else, it seemed as though for-profit higher ed was poised to rebrand itself, embracing “coding bootcamps” as the new vocational education and career training. The President-Elect refused to accept any wrongdoing.