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The Importance of "Discovery" in Executive Search: Measure Twice, Cut Once Todd Hand, Managing Partner Over the past year, I've written articles that speak to the strategies that significantly help when searching for C-Suite executives. I've discussed looking for CEOs and CFOs, the difference between Marketing and Sales Leadership, and have even tried to demystify what a VP of Business Development is actually supposed to do. The point I always come back to is that to manage a successful search, to find the best executives for positions, real heavy lifting must be done before candidates are interviewed. This part of the search is called "discovery," and without it, the search can go astray and drag on. Not all search firms perform discovery the same way, or even at all. Whether you are a CEO, an investor, or board member, you should consider how the search firm invests in discovery. Do you send them a job description and in return they send you boilerplate resumes in two weeks' time? Do they interview the management team? What kind of questions do they ask you? Do they even listen to the answers? How do they challenge your paradigm with their wisdom and experience?...read more |
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Experts Look Into the Crystal Ball of the Next Administration's Ed Policy How will a Clinton or Trump administration impact U.S. education? To answer questions that the candidates have eluded in recent conversations, EdSurge sat down with some Washington, D.C. insiders who have ideas about where the puck might head under both potential administrations...more>> How Will Districts' Ed-Tech Strategies Change Under ESSA? The Every Student Succeeds Act opens doors for districts to purchase more education technology and other instructional services-and K-12 companies are lining up to help them do just that...more>> Trying to Make It in K-12 Markets Abroad? Protect Your Intellectual Property One of the U.S. Government's Top Authorities on IP Offers Advice for Education Providers...more>> How to Monetize Your Education Technology Product (Hint: Positioning Is Paramount) It's important for all ed tech entrepreneurs, especially those who develop instructional technology for use by teachers and students in the K-12 grades, to understand how to position their products for maximum sales success...more>> Are U.S. children getting the best education for the dollar? From the first day of kindergarten to graduation from high school, schools in the United States invest nearly $139,000 for the average student's education. That's far less than some other developed countries...more>> As schools move to the cloud, top drivers are instruction-related While many schools have the financial freedom to charge ahead into 21st century classrooms, others are limited by tight budgets that simply cannot afford the infrastructure to support even free digital materials...more>> Assessment Reform Victories 2016 Public schools are opening around the nation following a wave of assessment reform victories during the past year. Grassroots campaigns by parents, educators, and students, including widespread opting out and other actions, have yielded real progress...more>> Could German vocational model be a standard for US workforce development? The Wall Street Journal reports on the success of Germany's vocational apprenticeship program, which helps workers earn about 92% of the nation's average working wage, versus 70% for American high school graduates...more>> NYT: Apple Offers Free App to Teach Children Coding (iPads Sold Separately) Apple plans to release a free coding education app on Tuesday that it developed with middle-school students in mind, in the latest salvo among technology companies to gain share in the education market and to nurture early product loyalty among children...more>> No federal mandate for Common Core, but it's likely here to stay The Every Student Succeeds Act requires high-quality standards that prepare students for college and career, and while they don't have to be the Common Core, states that have already adopted and implemented the standards aren't likely to turn away from them now...more>> For the Record: Where Trump, Clinton stand on education Only 4 percent of voters in a 2015 poll said education was the country's top issue. That may be why you know more about candidates' health than you do their education plans. Here's where they stand...more>> NYT: Next Target for IBM's Watson? Third-Grade Math For the past two years, the IBM Foundation has worked with teachers and their union, the American Federation of Teachers, to build Teacher Advisor, a program that uses artificial-intelligence technology to answer questions from educators and help them build personalized lesson plans. By the end of the year, it will be available free to third-grade math teachers across the country...more>> The Atlantic: How 'Daycare' Became 'School' What the linguistic shift indicates about the state of early-childhood education...more>> Almost all education research takes place in the US - but Finland is using it better Year after year, Finland is ranked as one of the world leaders in education while America lags far behind. Almost all education research takes place in the US, and American schools can't seem to learn from any of it - and yet Finnish people do...more>> Supreme Court to hear special education case The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to decide what standard of education schools must provide to students with disabilities. The case presents the court with the difficult task of determining whether school districts receiving federal funds must offer a "substantial" education or merely make an effort to educate children under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, originally passed in 1990...more>> What High School Education Looks Like for the Nation's English-Learners A national survey of districts that serve high school-aged English-language learners found that roughly two-thirds of districts provide English-as-a- second-language instruction for students. Conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, the survey looked at the programs and services available to English-learners enrolled in the nation's public high schools...more>> 'Forge Ahead and Move Fast,' Futurist Tells Education Businesses The "fast-movers" in an industry are most likely to succeed, futurist Jim Carroll told about 400 representatives of education companies on Monday in his keynote address to kick off the EdNET 2016 conference. Carroll's message to "think big, start small, and scale fast" was delivered to an audience trying to gain market share in the historically slow-paced K-12 marketplace...more>> How Teachers Leverage Mobile Technology Despite widespread acknowledgment of the advantages of mobile computing, students in nearly one-third of classrooms do not have regular access to mobile devices in the classroom - this according to exclusive data released to THE Journal by the national education nonprofit Project Tomorrow...more>> Bilingual Education Poised for a Comeback in California Schools Nearly 20 years after voting to restrict bilingual education in a state with more than 1 million schoolchildren who don't speak English as their first language, California voters appear poised to reverse that ban. Next month, voters will decide the fate of a statewide ballot question that would bring an end to the restrictions of Proposition 227 and close out California's official era of English-only instruction...more>> Houghton Mifflin Shares Cheap on Concerns Over Purchases by School Districts The Street is concerned about the publisher's school book sales in California, shares are down substantially...more>> Strategic planning key to IT investments for K-12 CTOs K-12 IT chiefs can practice clear strategies to be more efficient with limited funding for technology...more>> Education ecosystem extends far beyond the school building Audit, consulting, tax and advisory firm Deloitte conducted its inaugural Digital Education Survey in 2016, finding students want to keep learning after they leave the classroom, and they want to do so on digital devices like phones, tablets and laptops...more>> K-12 Deal making: McGraw-Hill Ed. and Cengage Make Acquisitions In recent deal making news, McGraw-Hill Education acquired Redbird Advanced Learning, LLC, a digital personalized learning company; in addition, educational content company Cengage acquired WebAssign. In the Asian ed-tech market, Chinese startup Zuoyebang raised $60 million in funding...more>> What K-12 Companies Should Look for in Hiring Former Educators Specific Sets of Skills, Strong Grasp of Provider's Mission Are Essential...more>> Brookings Institute: An evidence-based, voter-approved policy agenda for education The next president and congress have the opportunity to use education for bipartisan policy efforts that will unify, rather than fracture, diverse groups. But what do the voters want? And is what they want actually good policy? To answer these two questions, I will draw on public opinion data collected over the last three years (2014-16), as well as high quality experimental and quasi-experimental research...more>> Rising internet use poses challenge for K-12 network infrastructure As mobile devices become omnipresent, student internet use is up and IT leaders are being forced to ensure network infrastructure can handle the traffic...more>> A Timeline of Google Classroom's March to Replace Learning Management Systems Over the last two years, Google has taken its popular applications and outfitted them for the classroom. While many schools and districts continue to use existing learning management systems, such as Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle and Schoology, Google's Classroom platform is increasingly catching teachers' eyes...more>> New Accountability for Teacher Prep Federal regulations impose new standards on teacher education. Reformers endorse plan to link program evaluations to student performance, to dismay of teachers' groups...more>> Early Childhood Education: An American Paradox While most American parents would do anything for their children, the United States spends less per student on pre-primary education than it does for primary or secondary education...more>> Huge Unmet Demand For Afterschool Programs In High-Poverty Communities Many of the countries' most vulnerable children and youth are not benefitting from afterschool programs, which have a proven track record helping students succeed in school and life, because these programs are in short supply in communities of concentrated poverty...more>> Weld North's Edgenuity Acquires Compass Learning The acquisition strengthens Weld North's position as one of the largest providers of digital curriculum to K-12 students...more>> WSJ: Charter Schools Are Reinventing Local Control In Education Charters are supplanting the union-dominated school board model. The big winners are students...more>> The Atlantic: What Kids Should Know By The Time They're Done With School Education experts weigh in on the content areas children should have mastery over by the time they graduate...more>> The Atlantic: The Myth Of The 'Miracle School' Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan examines the issues at the heart of the charter-school debate...more>> The Changing Role Of The CTO As technology has changed K-12 education, so has it changed the role of the Chief Technology Officer, a job title that just barely existed 15 years ago...more>> Blended Learning's Evolution Brings Classrooms Closer To 'School 2.0' Schools nationwide have moved to the next level of learning, turning to student-directed personalized work that matches pupils' needs and abilities...more>> U.S. News & World Report: Child Care Isn't Cheap Clinton and Trump are both talking about child care without acknowledging that making it better takes money...more>> New Tech Demands New Curriculum Schools focus too often on hand calculations in math, when they should use computers for that and free up time for higher-level problem solving...more>> How Money Shapes Tools and Schools Investors have plowed over $2 billion since 2010 into startups addressing the US K-12 Ed Tech market. Now what? Where did that number come from? What implications does it have for entrepreneurs, investors and ultimately, students, teachers and schools?...more>> |
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Why the for-profit education business model is unsustainable At the heart of the education industry is the notion that what takes place in the learning environment is the key to student success and eventually, positive outcomes. But it is the individual work of students and families which influences these factors, which now drive financing and confidence in both the public and for-profit sectors...more>> Stepping-Stone or Off-Ramp? Stackable credential pathways have plenty of promise, but a new study fuels worries about poorly designed programs shunting underrepresented student groups into short-term programs of questionable value...more>> Washington Post: Universities are not 'trade schools,' but they should prepare students for the workforce The newly inaugurated president of Robert Morris University, a small private school in Moon Township, Penn., argues that colleges and universities must find a way to produce graduates who are astute members of society and competent members of the labor market...more>> Online Education Is Now a Global Market The day of global competition for higher education is actually here: More than 60 universities across the U.K. and Europe have partnered with Future Learn to deliver their courses, mirroring trends of the growth of these online classes in the U.S...more>> Forbes: Bootcamps Kicking Us Toward Disruptive Credentials Three developments affecting the future of higher education are: 1. Employers now post virtually all jobs online. 2. Today's students taking much more pragmatic approach to higher education decisions 3. The emergence of boot-camps. What's more, we're only a couple of years away from seeing major changes...more>> Politics divide views of higher ed's impact on nation A new study from the Pew Research Center shows Democrats and Republicans differ greatly on their perception of the value of higher education in the nation's positive forward movement...more>> MOOCs: the Virtual Classrooms Failed to Be the Education Equalizer We Hoped For In the early 2010s, we saw a dawn of something revolutionary in education. MOOCs or massive open online courses were born. Education advocates and teachers alike were enthusiastic about bringing education to everyone-sadly what research reveal is that MOOC programs haven't performed as promised...more>> New Frontiers In Online Higher Education We'll look at the new cutting edge in online higher education. MOOC's, micro-masters, and more. New models are coming. This hour On Point, the $7,000 master's degree, and online education now...more>> MOOC-Based Credential Options Expand in Online Education In edX's MicroMasters programs, students might complete part of a master's online for about $1,000 and then apply to finish the degree on campus...more>> Why higher education remains an essential asset to American workforce Education remains the essential factor in qualifying and preparing individuals to work in jobs across a variety of industries, but there is great debate about the skills being taught at the baccalaureate level and how they transfer to the workplace...more>> MOOC-Based Credential Options Expand in Online Education In some programs, students can earn a low-cost master's degree partially through massive open online courses, or MOOCs...more>> Students as Customers? A Path to Losing the Market While higher education institutions should endeavor to create a supportive and flexible environment that facilitate and maximize opportunities for academic success for non-traditional students, defining is as "customer service" goes too far...more>> Walden U is latest for-profit under investigation The Minnesota Office of Higher Education has launched an investigation of Walden University amid student complaints that the school misrepresented claims of student success in its marketing...more>> The term 'nontraditional student' is extinct Recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics outlines the growth of nontraditional learners on college campuses nationwide, eCampus News reports...more>> Washington Post: After gaining legitimacy, can online higher education replace traditional college? For much of their modern existence, distance-education courses have suffered from an image problem. But then the negative headwinds facing online education began to shift, and quickly. The big reason? Name-brand and elite universities suddenly became interested in digital learning...more>> For-profits rush for accreditation reprieve from ACCSC More than 300 colleges and universities have formally inquired with the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) about membership, following the federal government's decision to strip the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) of its institutional monitoring authority, Inside Higher Ed reports...more>> Career, tech ed classes offer benefits for all students Career and technical education classes, no longer encouraged just for students who don't plan to go to college, can have far-reaching benefits beyond job training...more>> University dramatically rethinks data to boost online retention Open-access Strayer University is using student-engagement metrics to identify at-risk students-and to improve the quality of its courses and teaching overall...more>> Bloomberg: Majority of Americans Want College to Be Free But they don't want to pay more in federal taxes to fund it...more>> Looking for a New Home National accreditor ACCSC gets inquiries from nearly 300 colleges overseen by ACICS, most of them for-profits. Critics of accreditors will be watching as the agency reviews the flood of applications...more>> WSJ: Student Loans: Don't Call It a Crisis The highest default rate is not among borrowers with large debts but among those who left school owing less than $5,000...more>> Executive education moves out of classrooms as online gains traction Online programs help firms look at long-duration learning journeys, against 3-4 days short-duration classroom programs...more>> Forbes: Change College Affordability To Encourage Responsible Behavior, Not Obviate It Today's students are a country mile from previous generations in taking responsibility for solving their own problems...more>> Online and Homegrown California community colleges unveil online program that allows students to take courses across multiple campuses, a project that replaced a failed attempt to tap for-profit online course providers to meet student demand...more>> Education Dept. Settles With DeVry Over Job-Placement Claims The U.S. Department of Education has settled with DeVry University, a subsidiary of the for-profit DeVry Education Group, after the institution put unsubstantiated job-placement claims in its recruitment materials, the department announced in a news release on Thursday...more>> Washington Post: Why students who do well in high school bomb in college The first year of college is a tough transition, and for many students, a disillusioning one. A study conducted last fall at the University of Toronto found that, on average, students predicted they would earn grade-point averages of 3.6. Those dreams were swiftly punctured. By the end of the year, the average freshman had only a 2.3. What separated the high-achievers from the low-achievers?...more>> College Students: In the Real World, Your Degree Is Worthless These days, a college degree alone won't get you a job...more>> The alternative higher education: trade school A four-year university is not the only choice in higher education. Enter trade schools...more>> Economist suggests Ed Dept. credentialing as college cost cure Economist Carlo Salerno writes in the Huffington Post that allowing the U.S. Department of Education to grant degrees based upon the number of courses completed, regardless of transfers or the number of institutions, is a way to generate more value and decrease costs for students...more>> Doors open for next generation of for-profit institutions with ITT Tech closure The race is on for administrators to strengthen their relationships with corporate partners to ensure post-graduate outcomes in hiring and earnings, and to make sure that degree programs fit within the changing workforce narrative...more>> Whom did the U.S. protect with ITT Tech move? Tuition loans to U.S. college students have more than doubled since President Obama took office. Grads and dropouts owe $1.3 trillion, up more than $90 million each year, the Federal Reserve says...more>> WSJ: For-Profit Government Community colleges are trying to cash in on the closure of ITT...more>> What does it really mean to prepare students for the workforce? Higher education and business leaders explain what workforce-readiness really means outside of jargon and buzzwords...more>> Washington Post: Shutting down for-profit schools could hurt more people than it would help What is apparently of most importance to the Obama administration is its ideological opposition to for-profit colleges and universities. That's a harsh conclusion, but it is otherwise hard to explain why the Education Department has unabashedly used administrative muscle to destroy another company in the beleaguered industry...more>> After ITT's Demise, More Trouble Is Likely for For-Profit Colleges Pending rulings, politics, and the economy are among a number of factors still playing out that could have ramifications for all or part of the sector...more>> For-profit advocates accuse Dept. of Ed of targeted attacks For-profit supporters and Department of Education officials are sparring over claims that the federal government used its student aid disbursement power to change rules and force the closure of several colleges and universities in recent months, the Hill reports...more>> Amazon Expands Its Reach on Campuses Colleges that have contracts with the online retailer stand to profit by pocketing 2 percent of every purchase delivered...more>> Who is to Blame in ITT Technical Institute Scandal? In the wake of ITT Technical Institute's closing, many former students and employees are wondering who to blame. Some students are looking at the bigger picture, while others are dealing with the current and crushing debt and monetary issues now surfacing as a result of the government ceasing all federal loans to ITT students...more>> Clearinghouse Data on Time to Degree The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center today released a virtually comprehensive look at how long it took American college graduates in 2015 to earn their degrees. The new report is based on completion data for two million students who that year earned either an associate or bachelor's degree...more>> The Big Difference Between Women and Men's Earnings After College A college education may be called the great equalizer, but when it comes to the gender wage gap, it still has some ways to go. Among federal financial aid recipients, working women's earnings 10 years after they first enrolled in college are lower than working men's earnings only six years after enrolling at public and private nonprofit four-year colleges...more>> 2 Projects That Promote Alternative Credentials Reach Key Milestones Two projects aimed to expand the use and usefulness of badges and other alternative credentials, to help people communicate their skills to potential employers, marked key milestones on Monday. One is a "credentials registry," an open, searchable, online system that categorizes and organizes the current maze of credentials, certificates, degrees, and licenses that students and workers now obtain...more>> DeVry Adopts Reform Favored by For-Profit Critics By tackling the controversial 90-10 rule -- and lowering it for its institutions -- DeVry Education Group is looking to assert its place as a leader in the for-profit sector...more>> "Unbundling" Would Indicate Failure of the University, Not Power of Technology Recently, entrepreneurs and education researchers have radically reimagined the higher education system, predicting that it will soon be "unbundled" into separate sets of services delivered by different providers. But is the unbundling of higher education really inevitable? And would it be a good thing?...more>> The Atlantic: The Road to Higher Education With an 'Invisible Disability' More schools are working to make a degree attainable for students with learning differences...more>> The Atlantic: Ask an Economist: How Can Today's College Students Future-Proof Their Careers? A panel of experts gives some (pretty dispiriting) advice to a generation that will come of age as automation does...more>> Graduation rates at core of potential accreditation overhaul Institutions, accreditors and officials preparing for new frontier in accountability, data-driven financing...more>> A Death Sentence for ACICS: Implications for Member Institutions Today the U.S. Department of Education acted on the June, 2016 recommendations of internal staff and NACIQI (National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity) to withdraw recognition for the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS). Here are some key implications...more>> The mindboggling barriers that colleges create - and that end up hurting their own students Despite push for more graduates, problems such as library fines block completion...more>> Election Casts Spotlight on an Unusual For-Profit with Global Ambitions In the news lately over its ties to the Clinton family, Laureate Education seems to be reaping the benefits of a substantially different business model...more>> The Atlantic: How Financial Aid Betrays the Modern Family The federal system is based on the flawed assumption that parents are helping their children pay for school...more>> State government explores partnership with online education company Massachusetts state government announced a new partnership with an online education company on Thursday to help public employees and the state's public universities take advantage of online classes. The company, edX, is a nonprofit started by Harvard University and MIT that offers graduate level online courses provided by top universities....more>> NYT: An Online Education Breakthrough? A Master's Degree for a Mere $7,000 Top colleges are more than willing to provide master's degrees - for a price. Tuition for a 30-credit master's in computer science from the University of Southern California runs $57,000. Syracuse, Johns Hopkins and Carnegie Mellon charge over $43,000 for the same degree. But one highly ranked program, master's in computer science at Georgia Tech, costs less than one-eighth as much as its most expensive rival - if you learn online...more>> |
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Here's the best case that software is about to disrupt education Can computers and the internet transform the education industry? For decades, teachers, principals, and technologists have looked for ways to use computers to enhance the educational experience, with little to show for it. But prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen argues that that's about to change...more>> Forbes: Coding Bootcamps: A Roadblock To The Middle Class? Coding bootcamps are invaluable, but you rarely hear about how inaccessible they are for most Americans - especially for those who are hovering below or just above the poverty line. If you are looking to increase diversity in tech, here are ten things that need to change...more>> Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds Bright spots include simulations, digital gaming, and mobile learning products...more>> Experts say education headed for dramatic shift by 2020 Fast Company describes the five ways that the industry of education is likely to change by the year 2020, with communication, technology and industry driving the rapid shifts over the next four years...more>> LinkedIn unveils new online learning and messaging tools When LinkedIn purchased online learning company Lynda.com for $1.5 billion in 2015 - its largest acquisition to date - the Mountain View tech firm's executives said they planned to leverage data about working professionals to link them with the right online courses. Now that vision is coming to fruition...more>> Three reasons why AI is education's future UX innovator discusses what forward-thinking schools are doing now, and what AI in education will look like in the near future...more>> LinkedIn's New Learning Platform to Recommend Lynda Courses for Professionals Today LinkedIn announced an online learning portal with thousands of courses aimed at helping individuals pivot or pick up new skills for their careers...more>> Assessing the Long-Term Potential for Bootcamps: How Do They Truly Stack Up? Though alternative credentials have yet to overtake traditional degrees in value-perceived or otherwise-their focus on short-term benefits and demand responsiveness could lead to a longer-term shift in the powers of each respective credential...more>> HBR: Why Leadership Training Fails-and What to Do About It Corporations are victims of the great training robbery. American companies spend enormous amounts of money on employee training and education-$160 billion in the United States and close to $356 billion globally in 2015 alone-but they are not getting a good return on their investment...more>> The jobs of the future - and two skills you need to get them Could a robot do your job? Millions of people who didn't see automation coming will soon find out the painful way. The answer is a resounding yes...more>> Tyton Partners Announces 2016 Growth50 Companies Scale-Ups Over Start-Ups: Company Recognizes Top 50 Growth-Stage Companies in the Education Sector Achieving Impact at Scale...more>> Life After Merger: When Edtech Acquisitions Go Sour Most startups will not go public. The next best option, typically, is to be acquired by another company, in exchange for cash or stock options. But what happens after the paperwork is signed and LAA (Life After Acquisition) begins?...more>> WSJ: The Financial Overconfidence That Threatens Millennials Evidence since the recession suggests there continues to be denial among millennials that a downturn can affect them the same way it did their parents, says WSJ Wealth Expert Ted Beck of the National Endowment for Financial Education...more>> As American Education Collapses, Democracy's Foundation Shakes "They know nothing about art. They know nothing about history. They know nothing about philosophy," says columnist Sol Stern...more>> Social Media Creates a 'Sickly' Presidential Campaign Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump haven't spent a lot of time sharing their thoughts about what should happen in public schools, but what do high school students think about Clinton, Trump, and the presidential campaign?...more>> The Employment Technology The millions of dollars invested in technology solutions to help U.S. adults find and sustain employment disproportionately favor those targeted at high-skilled, white-collar opportunities, but this may change. Why?...more>> 8 Learning Platform Observations, 8 Startup Signals Five of the six largest firms (by market capitalization: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook) run platform businesses. What does the platform revolution mean for learning? We spent the week checking out learning platforms from K-12 and HigherEd to corporate and professional learning...more>> Held Back: Ed Tech Investment Stays Flat Through Q3'16 Even if ed tech funding continues at its current pace, 2016 will snap the sector's four-year growth streak with drops in both deal count and investment dollars...more>> Why edtech can't grow as much as healthtech Overall, the amount of VC investment in edtech increased from $0.64 billion in 2011 to $3.1 billion in 2015. Although edtech overall has seen quite a few successes in the past years, the global uptake of truly innovative educational technology at universities is still limited. Why?...more>> 4th Annual LMS Data Update For the fourth time, we are excited to provide data relating to the use of Learning Management Systems in the US, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The goal remains to count those LMSs in broad use by each active institution, and this year we also exclude "zombie LMSs" where the LMS lives on even though the institution does not. Here are our findings...more>> Pew Research: The State of American Jobs How the shifting economic landscape is reshaping work and society and affecting the way people think about the skills and training they need to get ahead...more>> Why the College Degree Seems to Be Deciding the Presidential Election Among registered voters with at least a college degree, the Democratic nominee, Hillary R. Clinton, had a 23-percentage-point lead over the Republican nominee, Donald J. Trump. And polls indicate that Mr. Trump may be the first Republican nominee in 60 years to lose among white, college-educated voters...more>> Research Shows That College Grads are Better Employed Than You Think As it turns out, however, they might not have been impacted as detrimentally as most people think, according to a just-released National Bureau of Education Research (NBER) working paper, "Underemployment in the Early Careers of College Graduates Following the Great Recession." Here's a rundown of the findings...more>> The Skill Gap Exposed In One Simple Chart Starting in 2015, an unprecedented yet persistent phenomenon has sprung up in the United States - for the past 18 months or so, there have been more unfilled job openings than there have been actual people hired in the US...more>> 'Should I Become an Entrepreneur?' Assuming that you have the basics covered-like a business plan and the technical skills needed to execute it-there are still four key questions that I think you should ask yourself before you start a company...more>> The Top 10 Ed-Tech Tools Suggested by Teacher Experts Yes, there are a ton of great ed-tech tools out there, but which ones should you be adopting for your classroom? One of the best ways to narrow your choices is to get in touch with experts...more>> McKinsey: Independent work: Choice, necessity, and the gig economy The McKinsey Global Institute examines all the ways people are earning income, as well as the challenges independent work presents...more>> McKinsey: What CEOs are reading Leaders of some of the world's biggest organizations reveal which books will keep them occupied in the coming months...more>> The 10 Universities That Produce the Most Startup Founders A new ranking uncovers which schools produce the greatest number of VC-funded founders...more>> Another Amplify Spinoff: School by Design Today the once-gargantuan education technology company announced it is spinning off another service, School by Design, into an independent entity. This move marks the third such move for Amplify, which was formerly owned by News Corporation before it was sold last September to a group of private investors that include Laurene Powell Jobs...more>> Study: E-learning To Decline In Next 5 Years E-learning systems revenues in the United States and China are expected to drop by more than $6 billion annually...more>> Let the Games Begin! Tyton Partners analysis indicates that this year's game-based learning investments will grow by more than 20% over last year. What is game-based learning, and what investment potential does it offer?...more>> The Top 10 Companies Working On Education In Virtual Reality And Augmented Reality Several companies are exploring applications for them to be used in education. These technologies engage students in a completely new way which is more fun and engaging for them, and it increases retention...more>> Coursera Targets Executive Customers For New Education Platform Coursera has launched a pay version of its online learning platform for corporate customers, creating a competitor to the universities that have been providing it with downloadable lectures and teaching materials...more>> Google Maps vs. Apple Maps-Important Lessons For Edtech The real key to a winning technology strategy is to know which parts of your architecture should be proprietary and which parts should be modular...more>> Six Must-have Ed Tech Platforms For The New Academic Year Technology is the center of all conversation on how to make higher education more affordable, more accessible, and more engaging. But finding the right technology to meet the fit for a campus size, mission, and expectation is a difficult standard to meet...more>> Learning for Life: New Skills For New Jobs Luksha's Global Education Futures (GFF) uses a worldwide network of superstar education advisors to peer into the future. Lusksha attempts to understand how the world will change in the next 20 years, determine how that will affect our lives and work, and predict what skills and knowledge will be required...more>> Data, Drones, And Apps: States Debate Privacy Protections As Technology Speeds Ahead With drones flying overhead, apps tracking our every move, and more personal data flowing into cyberspace every second, there is widespread concern about sensitive data and images ending up in the wrong hands...more>> Investment In Education Technology On The Rise With the explosion of education technology at the tail end of the 20th century, learning methods are now rapidly changing. Investors have taken notice of the expansion of the education tech market and are hopping on the investment train...more>> Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Life On Earth: 101 Examples Artificial intelligence (AI) will have more influence on the lives and livelihoods of young people over the next 20 years than any other factor. The author spotted 101 current applications-no Sci Fi here-these are jobs people are using today...more>> Why Your Financial Advisor Doesn't Recommend Ed Tech Stocks In a contest between ed tech industry stocks and the whole economy, the latter wins. But a closer look shows variability among individual companies' performance...more>> Not Your Grandfather's Corporate Training: 5 Trends Changing Workforce Learning The corporate learning environment has been experiencing a great deal of development over recent years. Gone are the days when the organization dictated what should be learned and how. Learners are demanding that they are educated in a way that works for them...more>> The Big Opportunity In Data Analytics According to the Center for National Education Statistics, of the full-time students who enrolled in 2008 seeking a four-year bachelor's degree only 60 percent completed their programs. Could better student outcomes be achieved?...more>> Hacking Competency-Based Education Mark Zuckerberg has defined hacking as "building something quickly or testing the boundaries of what can be done." By this definition, much of higher education can use a good hacking...more>> The REAL Data Revolution The approaching data revolution in higher education will focus less on bigger data and more on the right data. This will usher a new era of rigorously tracking the expectations, experiences, and emotions of students to find out how institutions of higher education are performing...more>> Global Ed Tech Startup Deals And Funding See An Uptick Though ed tech financing is down for full-year 2016, on a quarter-to-quarter basis deals crept up. 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