Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2017
In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. Kaplan thrived during the decade, growing to more than $2.8
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. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.
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Hack Education
APRIL 20, 2018
I heard the former CEO of Kaplan say “hundreds if not thousands of colleges will close in the coming years.” Or “ Guess which country the most popular LMS in the world, first developed in the late 1990s, came from? I heard the CEO of edX claim the phrase “data science” didn’t exist a decade ago.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 24, 2011
Learning management system giant Blackboard announced this week that it plans to add a "share" button to its site, so that professors will be able to make their course materials available beyond the walled garden of the LMS.
Edsurge
JUNE 17, 2017
Yet another LMS. Switching something as deeply entrenched in a school’s operations as their LMS is so painful that it’s basically a non-starter. In fact, a freebie option is emerging as some schools are adopting Google Classroom as a lightweight LMS. Kaplan , Princeton Review , Tutor.com … the list goes on and on.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
” That’s Kaplan University and the Art Institutes. More on the Kaplan news via The Chronicle of Higher Education. ” “How Big is the LMS Market?” Edutechnica offers its “5th Annual LMS Data Update.” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.
Hack Education
AUGUST 11, 2017
“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. Phil Hill on an “LMS Revival: D2L picking up new customers and showing they can listen.” Via The New York Times : “$78,000 of Debt for a Harvard Theater Degree.” Via The New York Times : “U.S.
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