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Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. Then came the pandemic and even steeper drops that “show no signs of recovery from 2020” as documented by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center and other sources.
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. Universities are rapidly adapting to improve their online and sub-degree credential offerings as Sean Gallagher and I documented in Harvard Business Review.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
Some of this is what was revealed this year in the release of the Paradise Papers – a trove of documents that show how wealthy individuals (and wealthy corporations and wealthy universities ) keep their money in shell companies and offshore accounts, so as to avoid taxes. It hired former PayPal exec Peggy Abkemeier Alford as its CFO.
Hack Education
MAY 5, 2017
More on last week’s Purdue and Kaplan deal: “ Purdue ’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries – especially among faculty groups – about blurred lines between public and private higher ed,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”
Hack Education
JULY 6, 2018
” That’s Kaplan , in case you can’t keep all these for-profit disasters straight. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). .” Via Edsurge : “Why Purdue Professors Continue to Protest Purdue’s Purchase of a For-Profit U.” other drivers? cyclists?)
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Whittle went on to have a string of business failures in the 1990s — well-documented in Samuel Abrams’s book The Commercial Mindset — most notably the for-profit flop Edison Schools.
Hack Education
JUNE 29, 2018
The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” A MOOC consortium , that is, with member institutions Davidson College , Colgate University , Hamilton College , and Wellesley College. .” ” asks Edsurge.
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