Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

VCs often speak of having an “investment thesis” – a strategy for why they fund certain companies. And those were mostly administrators and administrative staff, I’d say, rather than classroom teachers.) ” Investors go to the event for private meetings. They go to play golf.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Starbucks did it for a much more interesting reason, which is, Starbucks wants to be an exemplar of what a 21st-century company can be. There’s been a lot of talk about the recent deal that involves Purdue University buying for-profit Kaplan University, which surprised many people (and the faculty have signed a resolution opposing it).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. Often distracted and easily bored, these students are also critical thinkers capable of thriving in the online classroom while learning 21st-century skills.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. This panel asks how this technology might expand the walls of the classroom—or isolate students from the learning environment. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? But will VR and AR live up to its hype?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Classroom 2.0 The degree requires the traditional 120 credit hours, but features small classes, extra supports, accommodation for different learning styles, and a modified course schedule to meet the students'' needs. Revenue for the company''s fourth quarter totalled $1122 million, a 10.9% show is back!

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

Women entrepreneurs made up more than a third of the presenting companies. Learn Capital is closing on a seed investment vehicle dubbed “ LearnStart ,” which has already invested in a Finnish company, 3DBear. One of its investments announced this week is in Aula , a London-based company that just closed a $4.2

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. – over accusations about abusive lending practices,” as The Chronicle of Higher Education notes. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon.

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? Or maybe the company it’s using for its predictive analytics programs – EAB, I think – does and that’s why we’re hearing all these stories. ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” “ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative ’s CTO, Brian Pinkerton , is leaving the company. The company has $8.3

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Vox on segregation in US public schools : “We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. ” Via NPR : “Outcry After Louisiana Teacher Arrested During School Board Meeting.” awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” .” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. “ Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom? Via The Outline : “The rise and fall of the company behind ’ Reader Rabbit’ and all your favorite educational games.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. The Flipped Classroom". And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” 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. Not much,” says The LA Times’ Joy Resmovits.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll Bootcamp or Bust.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” An “innovation pod” is actually a private classroom in a shipping container. ” Via The Conversation : “ Purdue-Kaplan deal blurs lines between for-profit and public colleges.” ” There’s more on the new Kaplan in the accreditation section below. Excellent re-branding.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The Center for American Progress also took a look “Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos,” and the list of education- and tech-related investments is long: KinderCare Education, the childcare company. Theranos, the troubled blood-testing company. The for-profit college company Sextant Education.

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