Students may soon be able to use Pell Grants to attend coding boot camps and enroll in MOOCs and other nontraditional programs under an experiment that the Education Department is considering conducting.
CampusLogic Inc., a Gilbert-based education technology company, has raised $4.1 million in its seed round.
The funding deal, which closed June 30, will be used for sales, marketing, product development and hiring at least 10 employees in sales, marketing and software development within the next 60 days.
Skillsoft, a global leader in learning and talent management, today unveiled an accredited, college-level professional development certification program through Patten University, an award-winning online higher education institution. The Professional Essentials certificate, a combination of Skillsoft's award-winning business content and...
The challenges facing higher education today are widely known, but no one really knows the future as technology reshapes how college courses are delivered, how effectively they teach, and who takes them at what cost. A panel at the Education Writers Association's recent conference in Chicago discussed...
I recently served on a panel at a meeting organized by the California Higher Education Innovation Council to look at "Alternative Credentials and Unbundling the Degree: Meeting Employer Needs or Short-Circuiting Proven Approaches?" Our panel was challenged beforehand by its moderator, Ryan Craig, to imagine how conditions had to change over the next decade...
Last month, John Paulson paid $400 million to rename the Harvard Engineering School. The gift represents a disappointing reality: rather than build the next generation of universities, today's billionaires are content to bolster a university system that isn't keeping pace with the demands of our economy or fulfilling its democratic promise.
The majority of people working in high-demand STEM jobs are male, an issue that has gained increasing attention as educators in higher ed and K-12 have increased their focus on attracting more women to high-demand majors like computer science. Let's face it: There's a general perception that programmers and their ilk are nerdy and socially awkward.
Credentialing has exploded in type and number in recent years, as job seekers earn a growing range of certificates, badges, experiential transcripts, industry certifications and licenses, in addition to traditional college degrees.
There's a crisis underway in American hospitals and clinics - the country faces a massive shortage of physicians as the population increases and grows older.
That crisis exists while the Hispanic and Latino population continues to grow, yet the number of Hispanic doctors...
Nine-figure financings in education are rare. So a few weeks ago when AltSchool announced it had raised $75M in Series B financing from Founders Fund and Mark Zuckerberg's foundation, along with $25M in venture debt, for a total of $100M, the entire education private sector...
