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?Tressie McMillan Cottom on For-Profit Higher Ed, Purdue, and Dream Data Sets

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Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University. Do you agree? Then yep, we’re on board.”

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

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Melinda Karp (Assistant Director at Community College Research Center), Elizabeth Dooley (Vice Provost and Dean at University of Central Florida) and Vanessa Kenon (Assistant Vice Provost for Information at UT San Antonio) will discuss the changing role of academic advising and what this looks like in practice. EdSurge 4:00 p.m.

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(This Is Not a Morphology of) The Monsters of Education Technology

Hack Education

My background in Folklore certainly informs my interests in storytelling: what are the stories we tell to cajole, frame, admonish, ordain, encourage, frighten, teach? Perhaps the most powerful of zombies in education technology is the student information system and its monstrous offspring the learning management system. Montessori.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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For your lead to be worth much to the college you need to have robust data about that student’s underlying needs and preferences, and demonstrate that students value your site or app as a highly trusted source of information and advice. Kaplan , Princeton Review , Tutor.com … the list goes on and on. doesn’t make it so. Facebook is.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Edsurge reports that Weld North Education will still be run by former Kaplan exec Jonathan Grayer. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” Via Buzzfeed : “ India’s National ID Database With Private Information Of Nearly 1.2

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.