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FEBRUARY FEATURE: M&A ACTIVITY FROM CHERRY TREE
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What's behind the $3.5 billion invested in ed tech in 2015? Victor Hu, Global Head of Education Technology and Services Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, took the audience at LearnLaunch's 4th Across Boundaries conference on a tour of that bubble.
Of course, every entrepreneur in the room was wondering if this hopeful moment will last. For investors, the not-so-rhetorical response to that question is "Can ed tech deliver?" |
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ESSA: A Guide for K-12 Companies Breaking down what the new law may mean for providers of ed tech, interventions, and other services...more>> SIIA: Learnings from LearnLaunch #2 Larry Berger of Amplify had the final word during the 2nd plenary ("The Highs & Lows of EdTech") at last month's LearnLaunch conference: When it comes to developing ed tech content and services, the key question is "What does it take to serve a teacher?...more>> 'Micro Schools' Could Be New Competition for Private K-12 The one-room schoolhouse, that symbol of rural American education that dates back to the earliest days of the Colonial era, might be on the verge of making a comeback...more>> U.S. News: School Spending per Student Drops for Third Straight Year Per-pupil spending in the nation's public schools fell for the third straight year in 2012-13, according to the most recent federal financial data, which was released on Jan. 27, 2016. In that school year, U.S. public schools spent only $10,763 per elementary, middle and high school student, on average, across the country...more>> edSurge: Teachscape's Tangled Tale Get acquired, go public or close shop. Most venture-backed startups eventually face pressure to choose one of these exits. The past five years have seen a flush of edtech startups, and finding that early funding is tough...more>> The Future of Big Data and Analytics in K-12 Education Imagine classrooms outfitted with cameras that run constantly, capturing each child's every facial expression, fidget, and social interaction, every day, all year long...more>> WSJ: New Ways to Teach Young Children to Code Even parents who don't know programming are using games, apps to teach basic skills...more>> New, Reading-Heavy SAT Has Students Worried For thousands of college hopefuls, the stressful college admissions season is about to become even more fraught. The College Board, which makes the SAT, is rolling out a new test - its biggest redesign in a decade, and one of the most substantial ever...more>> Getting Smart: Inspiration, Incubation, Intermediation: Keys to Next-Gen Learning at Scale A recent New York Times piece suggested that, despite $3 billion of global investment in learning startups, K-12 innovation was lagging...more>> The Atlantic: Fixing Schools Outside of School Districts are turning to private companies, nonprofits, and foundations for partnerships that can help tackle the biggest impediments to learning...more>> Usable Knowledge: Sticker Shock New study hints that publicizing education budgets may decrease support for greater funding...more>> Mobile-Only Internet Access Presents Hurdles for Families, Survey Finds Lower-income families in the United States have near-universal access to the Internet and some kind of digital device, but they are often at a disadvantage when it comes to the quality and consistency of their connections, especially when they are limited to mobile devices such as smartphones...more>> Virtual Reality: Poised to Bring Big Changes to Education? Virtual reality has been hyped as the "next big thing" for more than two decades, but is 2016 the year that it finally makes a break into schools in a big way?...more>> Study: Education Is No. 1 Reason for Tech Purchases by Many Low-Income Families Whether it's so their kids can do homework, play educational games or work with classmates on school projects, many low-income parents are motivated to purchase technology to further their children's learning, according to a study released today by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop...more>> GOP-led states increasingly taking control from local school boards Republican lawmakers in Illinois last month pitched a bold plan for the state to seize control of the Chicago public schools, becoming one of a growing number of states that are moving to sideline local officials - even dissolve locally elected school boards - and take over struggling urban schools...more>> Gates Foundation sounds call for stronger higher ed data infrastructure The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to throw its hefty weight behind an improved data infrastructure for higher education...more>> Is a one-standard solution possible for a nationwide ed-tech workflow problem? A new open interoperability standard called OneRoster has been created by a group of vendors, districts, and others in Florida calling themselves the IMS Global Learning Consortium...more>> New from ECS: Updated 50-State Comparison of Charter School Policies Charter school laws vary from state to state, and often differ on several important factors, such as who is allowed to authorize charter schools, how authorizers and charter schools are held accountable for student outcomes and whether the teachers in a charter school have to be certified...more>> NYT: Obama's Budget Urges a Deeper Commitment to Computer Education President Obama will call for spending $4 billion to help states pay for computer science education in the schools when he presents his 2017 budget to Congress, administration officials say...more>> Washington Post: 'What passes for acceptable school choice rhetoric is frightening' ...The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis held a National School Choice forum, and one spectator was shocked at what she heard. She is Sarah Lahm, a former teacher who is now a Minneapolis-based writer. Here is her account of the forum, and following that is a response from Laura Bloomberg, associate dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs...more>> State Pre-K Funding for 2015-16 Fiscal Year Policymakers from both sides of the aisle continued a trend of boosting state investments in pre-k programs during the 2015-16 fiscal year, with 32 states and the District of Columbia combining for a 12 percent increase over the previous year...more>> Brookings: When winners are losers: Private school vouchers in Louisiana This month's Powerball winners collected $1.6 billion, but not all lotteries turn out well for winners. In Louisiana, students who won a lottery for tuition scholarships to private schools wound up with worse academic performance than their peers who were lucky enough to lose the lottery...more>> New Interoperability Standard Aims to Ease Major Ed-Tech Headache The education technology sector is eyeing a new remedy for one of its most persistent headaches: the messy flow of class-roster and account sign-on information between schools and companies...more>> States Move to Issue High School Diplomas Retroactively At least six states are quietly bestowing retroactive diplomas on tens of thousands of former students who never passed their state's required exit exam, sparking a heated debate about rigor, fairness, and the meaning of a high school diploma...more>> FOX: Sen. John McCain: Why I support school choice and charter schools (and you should, too) A quarter-century has passed since the nation's first charter-school law was enacted in Minnesota, leading to arguably the most fundamental shift in public education in my lifetime...more>> Arne Duncan talks legacy: 'Are we willing to hold ourselves accountable or not?' The former education secretary opened up on ESSA, Common Core, his regrets, and Chicago...more>> National ed-tech plan encourages use of 'data dashboards' The U.S. Department of Education's National Education Technology Plan puts a high priority on states, districts, and ed-tech companies developing and utilizing learning dashboards in order to integrate data from various sources...more>> The Economist: Train those brains Practically all young people now go to school, but they need to learn a lot more there...more>> McREL: The Road Less Traveled: Changing Schools from the Inside Out In this white paper, McREL's Bryan Goodwin urges education leaders and policymakers to rethink the way we've been approaching reform for the past three decades and consider what might happen if we improved schools not from the top down but instead from the inside out-putting curiosity at the center of learning and unleashing a powerful, more engaging system of schooling...more>> Microsoft announces 'Education Edition' of Minecraft Microsoft acquired Minecraft for $2.5 billion dollars in 2014, and the tech giant is now revealing its education-oriented plans for the title with the announcement of its own "Minecraft Education Edition," launching this summer...more>> Report: Education Tech Spending on the Rise Spending for education technology is up this school year, continuing a rise that started last year following three years of recession thrift. More districts expect to increase their hardware and software spending from 2014-2015...more>> NYT: Education Technology Graduates From the Classroom to the Boardroom Judging by the number of learning apps available to classrooms around the country, the education technology market aimed at elementary through high schools is booming...more>> England's Charter-Style Schools on Rise Without a doubt, the biggest change to the educational landscape in England over the next few years will be the growth of so-called academies and free schools, both modeled at least in part on U.S. charter schools...more>> Clayton Christensen Institute: Can Facebook's founder get full service education right? Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, announced they are starting a private PK-8 school in East Palo Alto, Calif. Chan will serve as CEO of the new school, called The Primary School, set to open this coming fall...more>> Flood of Open Education Resources Challenges Educators With millions of pieces of open education resources flooding the Internet, educators face a "needle in the haystack" problem of epic proportions...more>> How to Fix the Country's Failing Schools. And How Not To. A quarter century ago, Newark and nearby Union City epitomized the failure of American urban school systems. Students, mostly poor minority and immigrant children, were performing abysmally. Graduation rates were low...more>> Walton foundation puts up $1 billion to boost charters A foundation run by the heirs of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton said Thursday it will spend $1 billion over the next five years to improve public education by backing new charter schools and helping programs already up and running...more>> What's most pressing for K-12 tech leaders in 2016? Two tech leaders weigh in on the issues, developments, and trends confronting administrators...more>> 79 Percent of School Leaders Use Online Learning as Alternative for Struggling A survey of school leaders throughout the nation has revealed some key findings about how and why they implement online and blended learning in their schools and districts...more>> Reading, writing, robots: A look at education technology on display at CES Technology in the classroom has come a long way. What started with a simple chalkboard has evolved into projectors, computers, tablets and now robots...more>> ESSA Law Broadens Definition of School Success A portion of the Every Student Succeeds Act that requires states to incorporate nonacademic factors into their accountability systems could help promote a broader vision of school success that extends beyond traditional measures, such as standardized-test scores, educators and policy watchers say...more>> Fortune: Business Gets Schooled When Exxon Mobil, GE, Intel, and others pushed for the education standards, they incurred the wrath of Tea Party conservatives and got a painful lesson in modern politics...more>> 12 Critical Issues Facing Education in 2016 Perhaps we have always lived in complicated times, but these days seem to be more complicated than ever. We all have to brace ourselves when we turn on the news because we know there will be multiple stories about violence and hardships taking place around the world...more>> What's most pressing for K-12 tech leaders in 2016? Two tech leaders weigh in on the issues, developments, and trends confronting administrators...more>> 4 K-12 tech developments to keep an eye on in 2016 Last year was perhaps the biggest for K-12 ed tech yet, with industry investment hitting an all-time high of $1.85 billion and even more schools shifting gears to accommodate device rollouts, online testing, and heightened interest in coding and computer science...more>> |
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The Tip of the Iceberg in Adult Education Tyton Partners' analysis of the adult education ecosystem, informed by a national survey of more than 1,000 program administrators and instructors, reveals there is a dearth of innovative, technology-based teaching and learning solutions for low-skilled adults, and enormous pent up demand...more>> Eduventures: Five EdTech Companies to Watch in 2016 ... Below, we highlight a few of the companies that shared their product roadmaps and strategies with us at the end of 2015. Most of the vendors we chose to profile are in the early phases of their forays into higher education...more>> The 13 Best 'Onion' Stories About Higher Education The Onion, like many national media outlets, has beefed up its higher-education coverage in recent years. In past decades the satirical news website's coverage leaned on jokes about hard-partying frat bros and absent-minded professors...more>> MIT Dean Takes Leave to Start New University Without Lectures or Classrooms Christine Ortiz is taking a leave from her prestigious post as a professor and dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to start a radical, new nonprofit university that she says will have no majors, no lectures, and no classrooms...more>> Forbes: Big Data's Coming of Age In Higher Education There was a lot of hype around big data in higher education in 2015. Colleges and universities, inundated with data from legacy systems and incentivized by renewed accountability pressures, have begun to link disparate information from across the campus...more>> NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition The NMC Horizon Report: 2016 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the NMC and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). This 13th edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project designed to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have an impact on learning, teaching, and creative inquiry in education...more>> Here's a Snapshot of Online Learning in 2015 The Babson Survey Research Group released its last annual survey of the online-education landscape on Tuesday. You can read its report on the survey here, and below are some of its key findings...more>> Phoenix Owner Seeks Fresh Start U of Phoenix's new owners could be looking to make major changes as the for-profit eyes transition to being a privately held company...more>> Education IT: Hot Tech Trends To Watch Cloud, big data, and security are all big factors in education IT this year. At the same time, there is a cultural shift taking place not only among the student body, but within the demographics of the IT departments themselves...more>> Hechinger: Enrollment in online courses rises, but their importance to academic chiefs wanes The number of students in online courses continues to rise, even as higher-education enrollment is declining-but enthusiasm for them appears to be waning slightly among some university leaders, according to an annual survey...more>> Department Of Education Creates Student Aid Enforcement Office The Department of Education announced Monday it will create a Student Aid Enforcement Unit to crack down on higher education institutions that are taking advantage of vulnerable students...more>> Brookings: Is business about to disrupt the college accreditation system? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest business organization, is the latest major player to recommend steps that could lead to a radical restructuring of higher education in America...more>> Brookings: The Open University at 45: What can we learn from Britain's distance education pioneer? ...Today, improving the effectiveness of U.S. higher education has become an urgent national priority. Access, affordability, accountability, and scalability are the watchwords of the day, together with high hopes for the educational technology that promises to make all those things possible...more>> Federal judge limits restrictions on for-profits in Massachusetts case Strict regulations on for-profit colleges, put in place by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, were largely upheld by a federal judge this week, but two were scaled back on first amendment grounds...more>> Coursera shifts business model, plans to charge students for graded assignments For-profit massive open online course provider Coursera is shifting its business model to try to increase profit margins, announcing it will begin charging $29 to $99 per course for students who want to submit assignments for grading, including in the vast majority of its Specializations sequences...more>> Feds Act Against DeVry A pair of federal agencies announced Wednesday that they would take action against DeVry University for allegedly making deceptive claims about its job placement rates and graduates' wages...more>> US News: The Path to Debt Free College: More School Choice To solve the debt crisis in higher education, lawmakers should let students have many more options...more>> Does Technology Ever Reduce the Costs of Teaching? Randall Bergen, an assistant to the president of Bethel University in Minnesota, was initially excited by the hype and promise of flipped classrooms, MOOCs, and hybrid courses...more>> Is Community College Already Free? It's More Complicated Than That, Researchers Say One critique of the free-college movement, or even debt-free college, is that students have plenty of low-cost options within higher education. For instance, community colleges...more>> The 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Chief Academic Officers Chief academic officers fear for the liberal arts, worry about finances, are divided on trigger warnings and doubt quality of new MOOC-inspired education models and academic integrity amid big-time athletics. And they're open to alternatives to tenure and competency-based education...more>> Why More Colleges Are Emulating Deals Like the ASU-Starbucks Alliance Arizona State University's deal with Starbucks to give baristas a discount on the university's online courses is inspiring imitators - and that's not surprising...more>> First-generation college students are not succeeding in college, and money isn't the problem Social and cultural factors are working against many students who are the first in their family to pursue higher education...more>> Watch Higher Ed's Top IT Issues Shift from 2000-2016 Information security shot up from 10th place in 2015 to take the top spot of higher ed IT priorities this year...more>> Transfer System From 2-Year to 4-Year Colleges Isn't Working, Report Says Only 14 percent of the students who start out in a community college transfer to a four-year university and earn a bachelor's degree within six years, according to a report released on Tuesday by three groups that are studying ways to plug the leaky pipeline between two- and four-year colleges...more>> AIR: Trends in College Spending: 2003-2013 Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does It Go? What Does It Buy?...more>> The Chronicle: The Faulty Foundation of American Colleges In the early 1950s, at the dawn of jet-powered flight, the U.S. Air Force confronted a troubling problem: Its pilots could not keep control of their planes. The two official designations for the mishaps were incidents and accidents, ranging from bungled landings to aircraft-obliterating fatalities...more>> 6 higher ed presidents to watch in 2016 For better or worse, a mix of success, protests, and scandals are garnering attention for these leaders...more>> How Some Would Level the Playing Field: Free Harvard Degrees Should Harvard be free? That is the provocative question posed by a slate of candidates running for the Board of Overseers at Harvard, which helps set strategy for the university...more>> National survey provides first clear look at competency-based ed A survey of the shared design elements and emerging practices of competency-based education programs by Public Agenda, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates and Lumina foundations, gives perhaps the clearest view yet of competency-based education in U.S. higher education...more>> With New Promise by Udacity, Money-Back Guarantees Come to Online Courses Late-night infomercials aren't the only venue where companies try to lure consumers with money-back guarantees. Now some upstart online-education providers are making the same promise...more>> What are Educause's top 10 IT issues and technologies of 2016? The leading higher ed technology association urges institutions to divest, reinvest, differentiate...more>> Hobsons buys Predictive Analytics Reporting Framework Hobsons - a provider of college and career readiness, enrollment management, and student success solutions - has acquired the Predictive Analytics Reporting Framework Inc...more>> ICEF: New report finds slower growth for US graduate programmes in 2015 The latest report from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) finds that growth in international enrolment in US graduate studies has slowed. Applications and first-time enrolment by international graduate students in the US increased by 3% and 5% respectively between fall 2014 and fall 2015...more>> U.S. News releases 2016's best online education programs U.S. News & World Report released their 2016 Best Online Programs today, which ranks what they say is the academic quality of more than 1,200 U.S.-based distance degree programs...more>> EDUCAUSE: Engaging on Purpose in Higher Education In the world of higher education, the needs are great, possibilities powerful, and partners diverse...more>> U of Phoenix owner Apollo Education exploring sale, shares soar For-profit education provider Apollo Education Group, owner of the University of Phoenix, said it was considering selling itself, after years of declining enrollments...more>> Forbes: Higher Education's Top 10 'Influencers' Of 2015 A recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (CHE) profiled individuals and organizations that influenced higher education (for better or worse) in 2015. With no intention of denigrating the achievements listed, nor questioning the worthiness of these selections, I do admit to some concerns...more>> The Story of a Digital Teddy Bear Shows How College Learning Is Changing ...The story of this toy bear and its student inventor encapsulates an important trend in how colleges and students are changing the way they think about education - and about the value of getting a higher education on a physical campus...more>> For-Profit Colleges May Be Down, but Don't Count Them Out The Wall Street swagger of for-profit college companies - so visible just five years ago - looks a lot more like a limp at the dawn of 2016...more>> Unaccredited Providers Are Changing the Shape of the Higher Education Industry Today's higher education marketplace looks remarkably different than it did even 10 years ago. While online and distance programming has long been available, the growth of unaccredited education providers and their popularity among prospective students is changing the shape of the postsecondary ecosystem in the United States...more>> US News: States Are Slacking on Higher Ed Spending More than 95 percent of states in the U.S. have been spending less on their public higher education systems than they did before the Great Recession...more>> Personalization and Quality Assurance Will Be Central to Higher Ed's Shifts in 2016 The prospect of identifying trends that will have the greatest impact on higher education in the very near future does not seem too arduous a task. This is especially so if the focus is on the core function of academic institutions: the practice of teaching and learning...more>> EDUCAUSE Review: Top Ten Article 1. Top 10 IT Issues, 2015: Inflection Point 2. IT Infrastructure Projects: A Framework for Analysis...more>> The In-and-Out List A look at what happened in 2015 and what's to come in 2016 with Inside Higher Ed's fourth annual in-and-out list... Trigger warning: This article includes elements of satire and frivolity that may offend some readers, or at least fail to amuse them. Happy 2016...more>> 2016 Predictions: More Outside Management of Online Degrees, CRM Buying and Competition for Traditional Colleges The number of public-private partnerships between institutions of higher education and service providers that manage online degree programs and pathways for international students will increase by double digits in 2016, according to new predictions from advisory firm Eduventures...more>> |
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Learnings from LearnLaunch: A Look Behind Ed Tech Investment What is behind the $3.5 million invested in ed tech in 2015? Victor Hu, Global Head of Education Technology and Services Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, took the audience at LearnLaunch's 4th Across Boundaries conference on a tour of that bubble. Here are some takeaways to keep in mind as you prepare for SxSWedu next month in Austin...more>> McKinsey&Co: Toward a value-creating board The amount of time board directors spend on their work and commit to strategy is rising. But in a new survey, few respondents rate their boards as effective at most tasks or report good feedback or training practices...more>> Pearson Narrows Focus Pearson, after spending hundreds of millions of dollars on learning management systems, is leaving the market as the company seeks to restructure itself and boost its profits...more>> EdSurge: Adaptive Learning's Potential and Pitfalls At our SF Edtech Meetup on Feb. 4, we asked six practitioners from the entrepreneur, educator and investor communities to share their joys, pains and lessons learned from building and working with these tools. Here's what they had to say...more>> Why Companies That Teach Will Win The knowledge economy demands that companies accept and enable a much higher level of on-the-job learning and development...more>> MIT Announces Spate of Digital Education Initiatives In an announcement made by MIT President L. Rafael Reif, Massachusetts Institute of Technology is expected to expand research programs that explore online and digital education at all levels, from pre-K through higher education, as the result of a 2014 institute-wide task force focused on the future of education...more>> Are Authentic Leaders Hard to Find? Some say yes. But John Addison, CEO of Addison Leadership Group, has come up with nine principles that define leadership success, and offer CLOs strategies they can use to effectively develop talent...more>> Report: Global learning market to be worth $31B by 2020 According to research released by Technavio, the size of the global corporate e-learning market is "predicted to reach close to $31B in revenue" by 2020...more>> State of the States, Slow Funding Recovery It's State of the State season. We're roughly half way through the season, with the last State of the State speech - from Pennsylvania's Governor Wolf - scheduled for February 9. These speeches set out the governor's goals for the coming year and often provide high-level descriptions of new programs and initiatives...more>> Brookings: ESSA unlocks teacher prep innovation A less-noticed new provision in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) may be critical to unlocking business model innovation in teacher preparation...more>> EdSurge: New Markets' New Education Fund New Markets Venture Partners is making a return trip to familiar grounds. The Fulton, Md.-based venture firm is close to launching a second fund dedicated to education technology startups...more>> McKinsey: Last year's most popular articles on strategy and organization 1. The eight essentials of innovation Strategic and organizational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field...more>> MarketResearch.com: 8 Education Technology Startups to Watch New education technology companies have entered the market and are attracting millions of dollars in funding from venture capitalists...more>> What Facebook Found Out By Studying The Parents On Its Site "Meet the Parents" is Facebook's foray into studying the needs and wants of parents across the globe...more>> TechCrunch: When Virtual Reality Meets Education While statistics on VR use in K-12 schools and colleges have yet to be gathered, the steady growth of the market is reflected in the surge of companies (including zSpace, Alchemy VR and Immersive VR Education) solely dedicated to providing schools with packaged educational curriculum and content, teacher training and technological tools to support VR-based instruction in the classroom...more>> Pearson restructuring, attributed in part to falling enrollments, will cut 4,000 jobs Pearson, the London-based education publishing powerhouse, has announced a restructuring plan that would cut employees and create savings to shore up profits as business stabilizes...more>> Be in The Know About Education - With NPR Ed's Newsletter By some accounts, education is a $7 trillion global industry ripe for disruption. Others see it as a sacred pursuit, nurturing developing minds while preserving tradition. Around the world, education means equal rights and opportunity. People risk their lives for it every day...more>> Forbes, Barbara Kurshan: Degree Programs for Emerging Entrepreneurs in the Education Innovation Ecosystem The intersection of education, innovation and entrepreneurship is not new to academia. For years, institutions of higher education nationwide have offered courses in business and entrepreneurship, business innovation and education...more>> edSurge: What the Next Seven LearnLaunch Startups Have to Teach the World Learned and Launched: Boston's edtech accelerator, LearnLaunch has graduated the next flock of startups from its fourth class...more>> NPR: Can A $9 Computer Spark A New Wave Of Tinkering And Innovation? When the first Mac computer came out in 1984, it cost nearly $2,500 and had a floppy drive for storage. In 2016, a spate of computers with a price as low as $5 and a lot more storage are hitting the market, and they may be opening up a new era of experimentation...more>> What Does the Future Hold for Artificial Intelligence Andrew Moore, dean of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, shares with CIO.com his thoughts on where artificial intelligence and cognitive computing research is heading...more>> The Motley Fool: Why Does Match.com Own an Education Company? While Match derives the overwhelming majority of its revenue from its many dating services -- including Match.com, Tinder, and OkCupid -- it also owns an education business, and it generated more than 10% of the company's revenue during the first six months of 2015...more>> CLO: Why You Should Care That MOOCs Had a Great 2015 Massive open online courses saw great growth in 2015, and according to new data from Reportlinker, more demand for this affordable education option means more growth...more>> Free high school classes can boost college success Thirteen Coast high schools are among 97 statewide offering students a new way to avoid remedial classes in college -- saving them both time and money and increasing the odds they graduate, educators said...more>> The CEO of Netflix Is Making a Huge Donation to Education Reed Hastings is spending money on more than just streaming content. The Netflix CEO has launched a $100 million philanthropic fund aimed at supporting education groups and initiatives...more>> Washington Post: These 6 technologies will define 2016 For the past century, the price and performance of computing has been on an exponential curve. And as futurist Ray Kurzweil observed, once any technology becomes an information technology, its development follows the same curve, so we are seeing exponential advances in technologies such as sensors, networks, artificial intelligence, and robotics...more>> SaaS: Human Capital Technology Talent Development, The Democratization of Learning & Development The world of talent development is undergoing substantial change, as a number of factors drive learning and development (L&D) up the strategic priority list for employers of all sizes...more>> TechCrunch: How Startups Are Solving A Decades-Old Problem In Education ...Several technology startups have launched "online mentorship" products in the last five years. Thinkful created a structured, online mentorship program in 2012, while AirPair and HackHands emerged with on-demand mentorship services in 2013...more>> Meet the start-up that's betting on plain old PCs making a comeback San Francisco start-up Endless has an unusual business plan in this age of the smartphone and tablet. It wants to sell desktop computers. And it thinks there are billions of people in the world who will buy them...more>> NYT: Venture Investing Declined Sharply at the End of 2015 Venture capitalists pulled back from making new bets at the end of last year. The number of deals fell to a nearly two-year low because of worries that there was too much froth in start-up investing...more>> Welcome, 2016: The Year of Optimized Knowledge The future of learning is filled with tools that personalize development for the learner and increase access to information at the point of need...more>> The Best of CES 2016: Transforming education with technology Last week the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016 took place in Las Vegas, Nevada and for four days, the latest and greatest innovations in technology were showcased for industry insiders to preview...more>> 3 Big Tech Trends for 2016 Prognostication is a humbling business. Last year at this time Mark Anderson, a tech futurist type and CEO of the Strategic News Service, predicted that Amazon (AMZN) would have a tough time in 2015, citing e-book squabbles, drone expenditures and the Fire phone flop. Oops...more>> 5 Technology Trends to Watch in 2016 Advancements in technology have allowed manufacturers to develop and sell devices with the abilities to do just about anything. In 2015, we were introduced to the iWatch, a hoverboard, and 3D printers in our homes, but what's in store for 2016?...more>> NPR: 6 Education Stories To Watch In 2016 Claudio Sanchez is the senior member of the NPR Ed team, with more than 25 years on the education beat. We asked him for his list of the top stories he'll be watching in 2016...more>> What Are John King's Edu-Predictions for 2016? Happy 2016! And just in time for the new year, we have a brand new (acting) education secretary: John King. He's planning to focus on improving outcomes for at-risk kids, bolstering the teaching profession, and helping to boost college completion rates...more>> Business Insider: These 5 education stories will dominate headlines in 2016 As 2015 comes to a close, it's becoming clear that certain education stories will heat up over the next year. From a revamped SAT exam to a Supreme Court case that may change college admissions, these are the big education stories to watch...more>> The 10 most popular Brookings pieces of 2015 As 2015 comes to a close, we reflect on the more than 4,000 pieces of content authored by over 200 scholars on hundreds of topics to select ten of the most popular of the year...more>> Fast Company: The 10 Most Popular Leadership Stories Of 2015 These are the Leadership stories you read and shared the most this year...more>> HBR: What We Learned About Management in 2015, in 25 Charts and Graphics 1. CEOs aren't getting fired quite as often these days...more>> HBS Working Knowledge: The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015 The year's most popular Working Knowledge stories looked at such diverse topics as how children benefit from a mom who works outside the home, the perils of humblebragging, and gauging a startup's chances for success...more>> Your Favorite HBR Articles of 2015 Here are the 20 articles you and your fellow HBR readers spent the most time reading in 2015. I'm biased, of course, but I think it's a particularly good list this year. And as usual, it reveals a lot about what managers around the world are thinking and worrying about right now...more>> Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2015: A Hack Education Project 2015 is the sixth year in which I review the most important trends in the ed-tech industry...more>> The Atlantic: Education in 2015 Visualized Some of the most important issues of the year, from school discipline in elementary schools to students saddled with debt long after graduation...more>> Washington Post: 2015 was a tipping point for six technologies that will change the world To the average person, it may seem that the biggest technology advances of 2015 were the larger smartphone screens and small app updates. But a lot more happened than that. A broad range of technologies reached a tipping point, from cool science projects or objects of convenience for the rich, to inventions that will transform humanity...more>> The Economist: Our ten most popular articles from 2015 A few trends emerge from the list of The Economist's ten most-read articles of 2015. The theme of inequality remains top of mind for our readers; articles about Asian-Americans, working-class males and inherited privilege all found their way into the top four...more>> Fast Company: The 10 Best Business Lessons of 2015 There was no shortage of debate this past year over the ways we work today, and how we should work in the future. By some accounts, the annual review is on its deathbed, the vestige of an earlier era of performance management...more>> |
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