Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

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 Techcrunch : “As Chromebook sales soar in schools, Apple and Microsoft fight back.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. There were several high profile closures of bootcamps — Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc.,

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Kaplan Inc has agreed to acquire the College for Financial Planning from Apollo Education Group. Looks like Kaplan Inc isn’t getting out of for-profit higher ed altogether, even with the sale of Kaplan University to Purdue.). Chromebooks. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Yay.

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50