Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. Not much,” says The LA Times’ Joy Resmovits.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” IPEDS is the government’s database tracking post-secondary education statistics, including enrollments and graduations. Via The Washington Post : “A hiccup in Purdue ’s acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University.” ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. These have all been separate articles in each series. “More Americans just need the right training.”

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