The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. It wasn’t always this way.

Data 107

Data Dropout Company Report 107

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

He could make cuts, but that was complicated in his industry, and would likely only speed the downward spiral. Colleges are also working to reduce their numbers of dropouts on the principle that it’s cheaper to provide the kind of support required to keep tuition-paying students than to recruit more. Will there be more?

Dropout 74

Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 74

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

“It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. Related: Some colleges extend scholarships and other help to rural high school grads. Enrique Ferna?ndez,

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s worried that, rather than advancing our human potential, many edtech companies and universities are perpetuating the status quo. Rise of the robots Siemens has both an academic and an industry perspective on digital learning. He points to the learning management system as an example.

Digital Learning 60

Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Like the Rio Grande Valley, for example, Nashville had been seeing gains in high school graduation and college-going rates. “We That usually means she’s not enrolled any more.”. We had some momentum,” Ward said.

Survey 139

Survey Laptops Dropout Report 139

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Being so hot also means that the industry uses the term “learning analytics” in a variety of ways. Go after quick wins : Show by example that learning analytics may improve your current learning processes. Benefits of learning analytics.

Learning Analytics 62

Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The setting is the Sandbox ColLABorative, the innovation arm of Southern New Hampshire University, on the fifth floor of a downtown building with panoramic views of the sprawling red brick mills that date from this city’s 19th-century industrial heyday. SNHU, in a collaboration with the education company Pearson, is testing AI grading.

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Course Pearson Accessibility Company 107

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. But we don’t know how to go about it right now and as an industry we are picking and choosing what feels right as opposed to using evidence-based practices.”.

Strategy 78

Strategy Training Report Company 78

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Wentworth, for example, will add combined four-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in data science and cybersecurity analytics starting in the fall of 2023, the university says. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. You’re talking about an industry that believes in marginal change.

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Report Course Dropout Training 102

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of paying money to support people to go to college, this program would pay people to forgo college and instead jump right into building an ambitious company or organization. They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. They need practical career skills.

Facebook 177

Facebook Company System Dropout 177

Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2018

Many education technology companies do the opposite: they deepen the moat around the castles of affluence. Against this backdrop, it is difficult to be enthusiastic about, for example, the possibility that this will be the break-out year for virtual reality in K-12 schools. (I These back-office tools can make a big impact.

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Technology Education Secondary Company 104

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Companies take it on faith that that a college degree is worth the handsome salaries graduates command; in contrast, dropouts suffer with little to show for their aborted time in school. higher education dropout rate, arguing that his bored students are voting against college with their feet. Cantor smirks about the U.S.

Dropout 79

Dropout Data Training Secondary 79

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? Via The Atlantic : “The Downsides of America’s Hyper-Competitive Youth-Soccer Industry.” I mean, clearly the company has a strong grasp on the politics of information. ” Racist.

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

It’s one example of the many ways that California is taking on seemingly intractable problems that are plaguing higher education nationwide. That’s one way it’s trying to increase the number of transfer students, for example — especially from its community colleges — accepted by both public and private universities.

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Education Policies Course System 98

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. For its part, Udacity has fully rebranded itself as a high-tech job training company, a topic I’ll cover in more detail in a forthcoming article in this series.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

The case is among a slew of enforcement actions, lawsuits and legislative proposals through which states are cracking down on for-profit colleges and universities and loan-servicing companies they say cheat or mislead students. Related: Strapped for students, nonprofit colleges borrow recruiting tactic from for-profits. “My

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Company Industry Advocacy Report 70