More colleges are issuing digital badges to help their students display skills to employers or graduate programs, and colleges are tapping vendor platforms to create a verified form of the alternative credentials.
"Community colleges are one of America's best-kept secrets," Jill Biden, who teaches English at Northern Virginia Community College, once remarked. These schools, she notes, are increasingly "forming partnerships with businesses in their communities, ensuring...
In 2009, the state's two-year college system dropped the word "community" from its name, an acknowledgment that some of its 28 member institutions were now offering bachelor's degrees. Six years later, lawmakers proposed...
Arizona State University, University of Arizona, and University System of Georgia Among the 23 Schools to Select CampusLogic's Student Engagement Platform in Q2
Williams had spent five years as president of Macmillan New Ventures before becoming CEO of its enterprise solutions division until leaving in July to join University Ventures (UV).
College Disrupted, Bloomberg Radio, July 2016 (audio)
Nearly every college boasts about its job-placement rate for new graduates, and most of the time you won't find a number less than 90 percent. To get to that number, colleges survey their graduates six months after college graduation, and nearly half of the schools never...
Trinity Capital Investment ("Trinity"), a leading provider of venture loans and equipment leases to some of the world's most innovative venture capital-backed companies, today announced results for the second quarter 2016. The company committed $51 million of debt capital and funded nine portfolio companies for...
University Ventures, the premier investment firm focused exclusively on the intersection of global higher education and the labor market, today, announced the expansion of its leadership team to keep pace with the demand for smart investment in solutions that help to close the skills gap.
Many experts believed that education technology (EdTech) has the potential to transform the education sector of a developing nation. Through personalized teaching, schools will be more prepared to integrate technology on traditional learning approaches.
