Edsurge
DECEMBER 4, 2018
So far 30 such content creators have been green-lighted, ranging from high-school teachers and college professors, to brand-name publishers including Kaplan, Penguin Random House, Oxford University Press and Pearson, which is selling a handful of English vocabulary materials. But a large teacher following is no guarantee of success.
Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2017
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 Purdue’s recent acquisition of Kaplan and ETS acquisition of Questar for $127.5 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.
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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Before that, she founded education advisory company Quantum Thinking, was an entrepreneur-in-residence and senior fellow at the Gates Foundation, and worked for Kaplan, Pearson, Ellucian, Blackboard and Oracle. “I I like early market. I like being able to grow and scale things,” Keehn says. “I
eSchool News
JUNE 18, 2021
More than 500 one-on-one meetings will be facilitated today at this year’s conference.
Edsurge
JULY 24, 2017
The strategy has worked for a few older companies: Kaplan, for instance, began in the test-prep business and has since moved into higher education, corporate training (and a. Frontline Education, controlled by Insight Venture Partners, has snapped up another 10—most recently, professional-learning provider School Improvement Network.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
AUGUST 6, 2020
Her broad experience in the education field has included sales, marketing, and administrative positions with prominent companies such as Kaplan, Inc. and Pearson Education, but her passion remains working directly with students in a teaching capacity. She has tutored and taught students of all ages with varied gifts and abilities.
Edsurge
MAY 10, 2017
They get their textbooks from Pearson, from Macmillan. That makes me curious to hear your thoughts about the Purdue announcement a couple weeks ago where Purdue is going to buy Kaplan University, a for-profit, for $1 dollar to flip that to a Purdue campus, a state university. What university builds its own technology platform?
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