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Who is the Theranos of Education?

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Over the last few months, biotech company Theranos has re-entered the conversation due to a slew of newsworthy happenings—the Elizabeth Holmes trial finally came to an end with four of 11 charges of fraud, and Hulu announced The Dropout’s debut while Apple Original Films’s Bad Blood is currently in production. Money came flowing. No kidding.”

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

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While it is something of an outlier, the r ecent purchase of for-profit Kaplan University by Purdue University is one of the clearest examples of the ascendance of service-oriented enablement businesses.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Investor Weld North, Learn Launch Make Big Moves

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The partnership represents McGraw-Hill Education’s latest investment in digital research and development; the company estimates that it invested $175 million in digital development and operations in 2015. Among other recent moves, a Chinese education company announced plans to invest in a prominent U.S.-based

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Consolidation, Collaboration or Closure? How Colleges Stay Alive in 2018

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Purdue and Kaplan University stunned the higher education world. With voice and video monitoring devices becoming ubiquitous in American homes, technology companies will take increasing steps to collaborate with institutions to adapt voice assistants and develop new devices for active learning classrooms. So what will 2018 bring?

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The company is also lifting some of its "per-seat" licensing fees so that those not enrolled in classes aren''t charged for accessing the material. The company also said that it''s struck a deal with Georgetown University to make its services available to students and alumni. Definitely worth a listen.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The Washington Post : “ Student loan companies reach $21.6 ” That’s Kaplan University and the Art Institutes. More on the Kaplan news via The Chronicle of Higher Education. From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.” ” The watchdog: the CFPB.