The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Consumers today want to study subjects they see as leading straight to careers. And half of students who earned bachelor’s degrees in the arts and humanities said they would now choose a different field of study , yet another survey, by the Federal Reserve, found. But small colleges are really good at being creative.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

This week, REINVENTING SCHOOL focuses on the spectacular rise in interest in pod schools--small groups of students studying with one or more teachers in an environment that is both similar to, and different from, traditional school. She has tutored and taught students of all ages with varied gifts and abilities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2019

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.

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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 The company is thinking beyond the pandemic.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

work with Best Buy, Kaplan and Khan Academy. Google Cloud Platform has a solid and well-implemented core of fundamental Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service capabilities, but its feature set and scope of services are not as broad as that of the market leaders,” the study continues.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Yes, I know it''s not technology news, but somehow it''s indicative enough of other trends that I''m including it here. The online study tool StudyBlue has launched a new Facebook app called " Friends with Brainefits." Members will have access to lab and office space, as well as a slew of lab equipment.

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Hack Education

JULY 22, 2017

Within the past week, two well-known and well-established coding bootcamps have announced they’ll be closing their doors: Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc., Two closures might not make a trend … yet. and The Iron Yard, owned by the Apollo Education Group (parent company of the University of Phoenix).

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

It’s led by a tandem of familiar faces in the edtech investing scene: Learn Capital partner-and-everyman Michael Staton, and Don Burton, who has built his own portfolio of dozens of startups through his time running the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator and EDGE Edtech Accelerator. I hope that’s not our legacy.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

While most of the headlines this week about Puerto Rico addressed the fact that a Harvard study found the death toll from Hurricane Maria hit almost 5000, Edsurge runs with a happy story about the island : “Months After a Devastating Hurricane, Puerto Rican Schools Turn to the Sun.” ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The as-yet unnamed online university resulting from the proposed acquisition of Kaplan University by Purdue University has set discounted tuition rates for in-state students and free tuition for Purdue employees.” Study Shows Choices Are Slim.” For-profit Hickey College will close.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Via Education Week : “Congress Budget Deal Bans New Gold-Standard Studies of Federal Vouchers.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “There’s a Reason the Purdue - Kaplan Deal Sounds Too Good to Be True.” I wrote about social-emotional learning (algorithms) as a “trend to watch.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

And before you sic your PR team on me, yes, I realize that Purdue Global is not a for-profit, even though it’s mostly a rebranded Kaplan. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Bucking a Boastful Trend, Stanford Will No Longer Brag About Its Application Numbers.” A new study suggests it should spend more.”

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Education Social Media Company Data 41

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.” “ The top 5 trends in K–12 ed tech – and where they’re headed,” according to Education Dive. ” Fox. .”

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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. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. The Intel Education Study App has now too been discontinued.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

When I included for-profit higher ed as one of last year’s “ Top Ed-Tech Trends ,” I suggested that, despite predictions that “ the for-profit-education bubble is deflating ” and despite events like the closure of Corinthian Colleges, it was unclear to me that we were really witnessing a collapse of the industry.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. Sensing a trend here? ” Data and “Research” The RAND Corporation is out with a study on personalized learning – “Modest Gains, Big Challenges,” reads the Education Week headline. and from Hacker News. ” Oh look.

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Inside Higher Ed writes about accreditation and the “Fine Print and Tough Questions for the Purdue-Kaplan Deal.” “From digital commons to the data-fied urge : Theorising evolving trends in the intersections of digital culture and open education ” by Giota Alevizou. New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” These have all been separate articles in each series. Even at 5000 words an article, there are stories I left out.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I know it’s trend to criticize keynotes and lectures and claim that they’re terrible ways to learn. Why, for example, would Microsoft famously put out a study in 2015 saying that humans’ attention spans are shorter than goldfish’s? It’s not really a look at “trends,” per se.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

” Via The Conversation : “ Purdue-Kaplan deal blurs lines between for-profit and public colleges.” ” There’s more on the new Kaplan in the accreditation section below. Via Pacific Standard : “ Purdue University Gets the Final Approval on Its Plan to Convert Kaplan Into a Non-Profit College.”

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