Edsurge
MARCH 14, 2022
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.”
Edsurge
MAY 9, 2017
Beyond online education, the enablement ethos has already extended into many other domains where for-profit companies are signing high profile, financially significant long-term partnerships with colleges and universities. In this way, as a recent example, the U.S.
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Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
First, the role that corporations and philanthropists play in shaping education policy is not new. Companies have been selling their products – textbooks, workbooks, maps, films, and so on – to schools for well over a century. Their products will make teachers’ work easier, faster, companies have always promised.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
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.
Graphite Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Within educational technology, tech companies can acquire data via multiple routes. Because these apps are built to be used outside of schools, the data collected by them is not considered an educational record under FERPA, and is therefore covered by the privacy policies and terms of service put in place by the app vendor.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.
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