Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University. Do you agree?

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

When New Markets Venture Partners first began fundraising for its second education technology investment fund, Barack Obama was in office, Brexit for up for debate and iPhones still had headphone jacks. Today, he believes that the Every Student Succeeds Act is the latest linchpin policy to shape the K-12 market.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 25, 2022

Speakers: Virginia Walden Ford (Miss Virginia movie & Board Member, EdChoice) Kerry McDonald (Senior Education Fellow, Foundation for Economic Education) James Lindsay, PhD (Author & NewDiscourses.com) Michael Strong (CEO/Founder, SocraticExperience) John Papola (Founder, Emergent Order Foundation & Dad Saves America) Matt Barnes (Founder, (..)

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

And thank you too for the theme of this event – your willingness to talk about failures and struggles with education technology rather than, what’s almost always the case, this strange dogma the field demands – that we only offer praise and thanks for the glory of education technology.

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Hack Education

APRIL 16, 2018

Critical Perspectives on Education and Technology," with some of my favorite educators and scholars. Ideas shape the products that entrepreneurs build and the policies that reformers promote. How that idea takes shape and takes hold in people and in policies is important. More importantly, I’d argue, they share networks.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

But the technology lends a question: to what extent should educational products make assumptions about a user’s end goal? Speakers from University of Virginia, University of Maryland, MIT and University of Pennsylvania will share what works, what doesn’t and how they have built structures to support technology initiatives on their campuses.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

In our founding class year, we had this policy. What university builds its own technology platform? We build technology, we put together lesson plans and materials, and we operate residence halls. Are there experiments that you’ve tried that haven’t worked, though? Class participation of Minerva is mandatory. Nonexistent.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Nearly 400 now offer credentials in cybersecurity , for example, for which demand is growing three times faster than for other IT jobs , according to the labor market analytics firm Burning Glass Technologies. Lehigh University has started hiring faculty for a new college of health policy , part of a plan to add 1,800 students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Teachers and the Future of Education" (the importance of teacher voice in education discussions, "Hack Your Education" (thinking about self-directed learning--Audrey''s in this proposal), and "Technology, Pedagogy, and the Silver Bullet" (addressing the myopia of some ed tech business ventures).

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

Purdue University agreed today to buy one of the largest for-profit universities, Kaplan University, and turn it into a public, non-profit university in the Purdue system. The news emerged Thursday morning when Graham Holdings Company, which owns Kaplan, made an SEC filing disclosing plans for the sale. for the next 30 years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. State policy on sexual health education varies greatly, making it difficult to analyze the effects of any one approach. Texas is kind of going backwards,” said Jennifer Driver, vice president of policy at SIECUS.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

And I think it will be 5, 10 or 15 years until aspects of this ecosystem are sorted out, but it makes for a really exciting time now to get the IBMs and healthcare companies and hotels and others at the table with college and university leaders, technology leaders, and so on. Your new center has “talent strategy” as part of its name.

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology. ” “The Theranos Story and Education Technology” by John Warner.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

" Via The New York Times : “ Met Changes 50-Year Admissions Policy: Non-New Yorkers Must Pay.” Humans, Not Technology, Are the Challenge in Toronto.” Edsurge reports that Weld North Education will still be run by former Kaplan exec Jonathan Grayer. ” Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

” That’s Kaplan University and the Art Institutes. More on the Kaplan news via The Chronicle of Higher Education. ” Via Campus Technology : “BYU Researchers Aim to Stop Robots from Eating Tables with Wikipedia.” Via Campus Technology : “ Education Data Breaches Double in First Half of 2017.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” Congrats, education!

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Via The Intercept : “These Are the Technology Firms Lining Up to Build Trump’s ‘Extreme Vetting’ Program.” “ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. Via Campus Technology : “Report: VR and AR to Double Each Year Through 2021.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Some higher-ed watchers say that Trump administration policies and practices have led for-profit colleges to rebound since he took office, even though for-profits tend to cost students more and yield lower student outcomes than nonprofit colleges. One of the final acts of Obama’s Education Secretary John King Jr.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” It’s pretty terrible to report on how a “ President Oprah ” would shape education policy and not talk about how she has actively promoted pseudoscience. National) Education Politics. ” More from The Guardian.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. “ States Are Adopting More Computer Science Policies. National) Education Politics. Does He Want To?

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via The Atlantic : “A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s New College Sexual Assault Policy.” Via Chalkbeat : “How Trump’s tax law may have just gotten in the way of Betsy DeVos ’ favorite policy.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. There are more stories about some of DeVos’s other policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. That means they receive thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to carry out these non-inclusive policies.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

” There were some high-profile academic hires however, including John Vogel (Dartmouth), Don Sexton (Columbia), Jack Kaplan (Columbia), and Roger Schank (Carnegie Mellon). The for-profit Kaplan bought Dev Bootcamp and the University of Phoenix’s parent company bought The Iron Yard last year.)

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Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” “The Trump Administration Just Rescinded Obama-Era Guidance on Race-Conscious Admissions Policies. ” “The Trump Administration Just Rescinded Obama-Era Guidance on Race-Conscious Admissions Policies.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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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.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

An op-ed in Inside Higher Ed from EAB’s Melanie Hoe : “What the Purdue-Kaplan Deal Means for You.” ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.” ” Via Edsurge : “Education Technology Tools for Adult Learners Get Mixed Results From SRI Study.” ” Fox.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

DeVos is the former chair of the American Federation for Children, which advocates for school choice policies, such as tax credit scholarships and vouchers. Here are the education technology companies that have raised money from ISPs. Via Edsurge : “Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via Texas Monthly : “Meet the Women Whose Persistence Made Texas A&M Change Its Sexual Assault Policies.” Products like this remain one of the most terrifying ideas in education technology. Or something.

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. ” Via MIT Technology Review : “Rebuilding Germany ’s centuries-old vocational program.” National) Education Politics. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Campus Rape Policie s Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear.” ” Via The New York Times : “ DeVos Says She Will Revisit Obama-Era Sexual Assault Policies.” Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. and from Hacker News.

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. More federal stuff: Inside Higher Ed on restructuring at the US Department of Education : “Proposed reorganization would eliminate office of under secretary, which oversaw higher ed policy for much of the Obama and George W. “Open.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “A hiccup in Purdue ’s acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University.” ” Via The Journal & Courier : “Purdue disputes claims Kaplan deal leaves taxpayers on hook.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Historians Blame Lack of Support for Slow Technology Uptake.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

“A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled in favor of a transgender student ’s challenge to a Wisconsin school district’s policy limiting his restroom usage – a big win for those seeking to advance transgender rights in the courts,” Buzzfeed reports. ” Education in the Courts. However will they cope.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

This is part eight of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In previous years, I’ve looked at how education technology is intertwined with narratives about “ skills ,” “ competencies ,” and “ credentialing.” He even praised Germany – Germany!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

We’re told an awful lot of stories about what “good teaching” looks like and what “bad teaching” looks like and how technology will purportedly enhance the former and replace the latter. ” Rather, I want to look at the stories that are being told about education and technology.

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