Portfolium has partnered with America's largest educational system, the California Community College System ("CCC"), to help students connect learning with career opportunity. Over 2.1M students will have the opportunity to create free ePortfolios, and link together with millions of other students, faculty, and employers to further their learning and career success.
Private student loan companies are taking
off in both emerging and developed markets.
Kirsten Noben surveys the landscape
Students at Western Governors University, an exclusively online higher ed institution, get a free lesson in responsible borrowing that is paying dividends many years beyond graduation.
The competency-based education marketplace eschews the bundled approach of traditional degrees, instead promising to produce workers adept in just the right skills employers want. Education expert Ryan Craig believes that unbundling could destroy all but a handful of colleges and universities.
Harvard Medical School recently made news by announcing "major" changes in its curriculum. Professors will "flip" the classroom, giving students access to the lectures in advance of class - so that professors and students can use precious time together to foster deeper learning, rather than simply to transmit content.
Unbundling is a hot topic in higher education. There's a book about it, College Disrupted, by Ryan Craig and The Chronicle of Higher Education started the year with the launch of Re:Learning, an ongoing special report on the new education landscape. But will people or institutions buy what's getting unbundled?
In recent months, we have witnessed the success of books and articles predicting massive shifts in the way students will experience and complete post-secondary education. Costs will be reduced and outcomes improved, writers argue, when higher ed is unbundled, meaning students pick and choose from...
ProSky announced today that it raised a $2.3 million seed round led by Lightbank to further develop its product and invest in marketing.
Galvanize, a Denver-based computer-coding school, plans to open a campus in Phoenix next fall, creating a new pipeline of tech-savvy workers intended to help meet the Valley's corporate needs.
Ponce Health Sciences University
(PHSU) recently became the second
of three medical schools in
the world to teach anatomy with the
help of holographic human bodies, a
cutting edge technology provided by
zSpace, a company based...
