Edsurge

JULY 3, 2018

If Purdue University’s purchase of the for-profit Kaplan University can be thought of as a wedding, there were plenty of people in the audience shouting objections throughout the ceremony. EdSurge: What was your initial reaction to the news that Purdue University would be buying Kaplan to create an online wing?

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early.

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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. More on the for-profit formerly known as Kaplan University in the online education section below. ” This new school is a result of Purdue’s acquisition of the for-profit Kaplan University.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Edsurge, which described her as a “ mainstream outsider ,” reassured its readers that DeVos “ believes that technology has a role to play in the classroom.” But doesn’t that pale in comparison to the importance of educating the future of our country? Of course, Uber and Lyft are for the wealthy. .”

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