Amid increasing bipartisan interest in expanding apprenticeship opportunities in this country, a new report from the University Ventures Fund includes policy recommendations for how to best harness new federal investment in the space.
PACKED WALLET: Online discussion platform Packback has raised $4.2 million in a Series A round led by University Ventures. The Chicago-based startup, which also offers online textbooks, previously raised $4 million in funding from investors including...
Acting swiftly to take advantage of a discounted price, the Cloud County Community College board of trustees, during its January meeting Tuesday night, approved a three-year contract with OOHLALA Mobile...
Rosalyn Gold-Onwude is already having a pretty eventful year. The 30-year-old basketball analyst recently landed an international deal with Turner Sports after spending three seasons as the Golden State...
As Packback continues its pivot away from an online textbook platform and into artificial intelligence software for college courses, Mark Cuban and other investors are pouring more money into the Chicago startup.
Packback's decision to double down on student engagement appears to be paying off.
The edtech startup, whose AI-driven learning platform...
Packback helps faculty make big classes feel smaller; engage students to spark curiosity and critical thinking through application of cognitive science
Skills boot camps continue to grow and diversify despite wave of consolidation, while traditional higher education increasingly absorbs aspects of the short-term training model.
Nitzan Pelman was in her twenties when she began to teach herself the basics. How to write a coherent sentence. How to think critically. Labeled a special needs student at a very young age and raised in an educational environment that gave up on her from the start, Pelman had never really believed herself...
Tech-empowered learning platform Galvanize is leaping into 2018 with a major addition to core leadership. Alfonso P. Rosabal joins the company as CEO and a part of the Galvanize Board of Directors, in place of founder Jim Deters who stepped down in July of last year.
