The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0:

Khan Academy 44

Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” 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. Education Politics. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

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.” .” Roy Moore has just been elected Alabama ’s new Senator.

MOOC 43

MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Both had been acquired by for-profit college companies, a convenient target – no surprise – for entrepreneurial blame at the bootcamps’ failures: Dev Bootcamp was bought in 2014 by Kaplan Inc and Iron Yard was acquired in 2015 by the Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix. weird that, eh?)

Robotics 59

Robotics MOOC Training Industry 59

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” Kaplan Inc has agreed to acquire the College for Financial Planning from Apollo Education Group. It’s an amazing amazing breakthrough.

Kaplan 50

Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50