article thumbnail

Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

As educators, there are many new options opening up to us that will help improve our classrooms and make our professional development more accessible and available via our mobile devices. They can show you have to use technology to unlock deeper student relationships with your students.

Training 332
article thumbnail

Harvard and MIT Launch Nonprofit to Increase College Access

Edsurge

That’s the privileged question that officials at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University have been mulling over for the last two years, and this month they announced some answers. What would you do if you had $800 million to build a new nonprofit to support innovation in online learning?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

3 things schools must know about the rising “phigital” student

eSchool News

In an article published in, of all places, Delta’s Sky Magazine , writer Allison Kaplan details her interview with generational expert and author David Stillman on how Generation Z will begin graduating from college this year and what businesses should expect. So what does that mean for educators? Well, buckle up and hold on. Digital is King.

Kaplan 105
article thumbnail

Admissions Scandal, Painful Pivots and Other Themes From ASU GSV

Edsurge

It’s hard to make an informed choice for your child, let alone your employees,” said Jon Kaplan, chief learning officer at Discover Financial. Kaplan means his company worked with Guild to narrow down which schools aligned with the programs Discover wanted to support.

Kaplan 87
article thumbnail

New Markets Venture Partners Adds $30 Million, Former Gates Foundation Executive to Edtech Fund

Edsurge

His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. From this second fund New Markets has already made several investments: Practice (formerly ApprenNet), a mobile video-based learning tool; Credly , a digital credentialing platform; and Noodle Partners. The Fulton, Md.-based

EdTech 143
article thumbnail

Top 12 apps for law students and the bar exam

Brainscape

Get Black’s Law Dictionary: App Store Law school app # 2: Brainscape’s web & mobile flashcards A virtually indispensable study app for law school is Brainscape, the world’s smartest study and flashcards app. You’ll be fluent in Latin before you’re through with law school!

Kaplan 52
article thumbnail

gener8tor and ECMC Group’s Inaugural OnRamp Education & Workforce Innovation Accelerator Cohort Addresses Learning & Labor Challenges with Creative, Tech-first Solutions

eSchool News

SimiDigi (Dallas, TX) – A full-service workforce training and development company designed to cut costs for industrial organizations and train their mobile workforce through the use of 3D and Virtual Reality technology. gener8tor’s “OnRamp” model is designed to efficiently connect startups, corporations and capital.

Kaplan 55