In Los Angeles, where I live, there are three things you can always count on. The first is weather - perfect to the point of being boring. The second is traffic - awful to the point of dictating a surprising number of daily decisions about where to go and when. The third is encountering hordes of people...
According to Ryan Craig from University Ventures, many trends from popular initiatives and names in the current landscape of educational technologies look uncomfortably similar to experiences the sector has been through in previous decades, in part because of the paradoxical possibility that...
When the Kenzie Academy in Indianapolis launches its first coding classes next month, about 60 percent of the students will pay for their training with income-share agreements through which they promise to pay the school part of their future income.
Members of the inaugural class of MissionU are pretending to be newborn kittens, laughing and rolling around on the floor of an airy industrial loft in San Francisco. The group of about 30 students just finished a hackathon, and they are now in the midst...
NKU offers 'bite-sized' courses to those unsure about the graduate program
Historically, degree attainment has been an all-or-nothing proposition. Employer reliance on degrees as a proxy for skills means that higher education offers a pathway to economic mobility, and this is increasingly...
Beyond the Hobson's choice of impact investing lies an 'alpha' opportunity
It's been quite a year for for-profit education. "Continued collapse," is how Bryan Alexander, an educational futurist, describes it.
Is education technology investing back on track? Are investors still eager to put their money in education startups? The answers depend on who you ask.
Following a nearly three-year pilot, Indiana University has chosen to adopt the proctoring platform Examity over other choices for its "flexibility, security and support."
