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K-12

Education Week: Governors, State Chiefs, and Ballot Measures: What Voters Decided
Education spending. Teacher pay. School choice. School safety. A sitting state school superintendent challenging a sitting governor. K-12 education played a huge part in the 2018 midterm elections, especially at the state level...more>>

EdSurge: Why Aren't Schools Using the Apps They Pay For?
With thousands of education apps available today, it can seem like students' success is in the palm of their hands. But easy to forget is that technology is not in itself a solution...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Betting on Better Days Ahead, With State Adoptions
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt says it has spent much of this year on the lean side of the lucrative sales cycle of state curriculum adoptions. But it's betting that things will turn in a more positive direction in 2019...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: Pearson Unveils Immersive History Curriculum, Even as Potential Sale of K-12 Products Looms
Pearson has released a new online curriculum for U.S. history meant to create an immersive and engaging experience for students, even as the giant education company continues to try to sell off the K-12 classroom lessons it offers in the United States...more>>

EdSurge: How a 5-Decade Old Education Company Reinvented Itself
Curriculum Associates has been around for about five decades, and has reinvented itself throughout the years. Like many other education companies that started with print instructional K-12 materials, Curriculum Associates has had to make the transition to digital...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: 5 Things for K-12 Vendors to Remember as Districts Move Toward 'Interoperability'
Many districts around the country are taking steps to make their data "interoperable," or they're at least beginning to explore the rewards and costs of making that leap. All of that activity has clear implications for companies in the K-12 market...more>>

eSchool News: 10 technology trends that will revolutionize 2019
The next year will focus on technologies that influence how users interact with the world, according to Gartner in its list of top 10 strategic technology trends for 2019...more>>

WSJ: In More High School Classes, the Teacher Is on a Screen
Facing a teacher shortage, school districts try virtual teachers; 'My preference is still a live body in the classroom,' says one Texas superintendent...more>>

The 74: Rotherham: 5 Ways the Midterm Elections Will Have Major Implications for Education Reform
Rotherham: 5 Ways the Midterm Elections Will Have Major Implications for Education Reform...more>>

EdDive: School business managers let principals focus on instruction
Atlanta Public Schools has hired 17 school business managers to relieve principals of many of the responsibilities for school operations, such as food service, ordering supplies and handling transportation issues, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...more>>

NYT: With Democratic Wins, Charter Schools Face a Backlash in N.Y. and Other States
Over the last decade, the charter school movement gained a significant foothold in New York, demonstrating along the way that it could build fruitful alliances with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and other prominent Democrats...more>>

CNBC: Education activists were big players in this year's elections, but they ran into a red wall in GOP-friendly states
In 2018, an eruption of national teacher strikes shuttered schools in deep-red states across America as educators walked off the job over low budgets and stagnant salaries...more>>

EdDive: Nearly 1,800 educators ran for office in the midterms. Here's who won
This year's midterms saw more educator candidates than any other election cycle. How many will serve in public office?...more>>

McKinsey: How states can improve well-being for all children, from birth to age five
State governments have a unique opportunity to improve children's developmental trajectories. An integrated approach can help...more>>

Chalkbeat: What our local education reporters learned when we collaborated with ProPublica to look at equity data
It's a sad, familiar story: Across the country, students continue to have access to vastly different educational opportunities depending on where they live and the color of their skin...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: School-to-Work Issues Are Surging in State Legislatures
No politician is likely to lose an election by focusing too heavily on creating jobs and boosting the workforce, which may help explain why legislation that seeks to connect education and career paths has become so popular in statehouses...more>>

WSJ: This Building Is for Sale (but Not to a Charter School)
Education officials try to stem the school-choice movement by holding on to vacant properties...more>>

The 74: Robin Lake: Online Charters Redefine School. Now, States Must Redefine Oversight to Accommodate Them & Protect Students
Once again, virtual charter schools are coming under heavy scrutiny. Last week, the Center for American Progress published a report that called for banning for-profit online charter school operators...more>>

The Atlantic: The Backlash Against Screen Time at School
Combining education and technology is great-until it's not...more>>

Psychology Today: Is After school the Future of School?
Intrepid Academy at Hale provides a promising model for school-day innovation....more>>

Frank Foundation: If you know how to fix American education, we reward your idea with a $1M prize Frank Foundation launches a competition for disruptive
education technology projects and offers $1,000,000 prize for the best solution. Application window November 7 - 30, 2018...more>>

Fast Company: The $367 million Chinese startup invading the world's classrooms
A young entrepreneur turned his hobby into Makeblock, a booming business that's helping students around the world learn by building robots...more>>

EdSurge: A Test Worth Teaching To? How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT
Rebecca Kantar is fighting an uphill battle. She says so herself. The 26-year-old entrepreneur has set out to replace the standardized tests that are deeply entrenched in K-12 and higher education, like the SAT and ACT, and she tells EdSurge her efforts to do so are sure to spark controversy...more>>

NYT: The Digital Gap Between Rich and Poor Kids Is Not What We Expected
America's public schools are still promoting devices with screens - even offering digital-only preschools. The rich are banning screens from class altogether...more>>

NYT: A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley
The people who are closest to a thing are often the most wary of it. Technologists know how phones really work, and many have decided they don't want their own children anywhere near them...more>>

EdSurge: MinecraftEdu Creators Struggle to Find a Second Hit
As The Verve and Billy Ray Cyrus can probably tell you, a second hit is far from guaranteed. The makers of the original MinecraftEdu know a thing about it too...more>>

EdSurge: Months After Raising $27M, Education Startup Yogome Shuts Down Amid Fraud Allegations
In mid-September this year, Yogome, an educational startup founded in Mexico that also operates in San Francisco, held a multi-day bash of team meetings and parties for its all employees in Mexico City. Then a couple weeks later came the hangover...more>>

PC Mag: How About Swapping That Science Book for a Nintendo Switch?
Nintendo is giving elementary school students across the country the opportunity to tinker and game while learning the basics of science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics...more>>

The 74: CottageClass: A Microschool Hub That Connects Families with Small-Scale Teachers - & Takes Care of the Business Side
Think of CottageClass as the Airbnb of education. It gives teachers, artists, and local experts who want to offer personalized learning experiences a platform for connecting with families, complete with references and reviews...more>>

Getting Smart: Show What You Know: A Landscape Analysis of Competency-Based Education
Educators are genuinely enthusiastic about new, competency-based approaches to learning - as opposed to a system based on how much time students spend in class - but significant obstacles may prevent competency-based education from taking hold in U.S. high schools in the near future...more>>

Hechinger: The Opt Out movement is gaining ground, quietly
Concerns go beyond standardized testing...more>>

EdSurge: What's in a Word? Mrs. Wordsmith Raises $11 Million to Become the 'Pixar of Literacy.'
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then some investors are betting that pictures of words could be worth millions of dollars. Specifically, $11 million-which is what Mrs. Wordsmith, a London-based education startup, has raised in its Series A round...more>>

EdSurge: How Do You Make Education Research 'Accessible and Usable' for Teachers?
Nearly every week, if not every day, a new report comes out detailing the latest findings and results around what works-or doesn't-when it comes to the latest instructional approaches and tech tools. But what's clearly not working is getting educators to pay attention to this research to inform their own work in the classroom...more>>

EdWeek Market Brief: Money Is Flowing to Social-Emotional Learning: Allstate Foundation Dedicates $45 Million
The nonprofit, which is offering programs to public and private schools, as well as to parents and students directly, said it expects to reach 25 percent of the nation's youth with its social-emotional learning offerings by 2022. The organization has already invested $22 million since 2015, when it began to focus on this aspect of student development...more>>

District Administration: SEL checkups at school
Schools more closely assess the social-emotional strengths of students and the impact of new programs...more>>

U.S. News: Re-evaluating Laptops in the Classroom
Advocates hailed the Mooresville, N.C. school district after they introduced laptops. Now the benefits aren't certain...more>>

EdSurge: From Hotspots to School Bus Wi-Fi, Districts Seek Out Solutions to 'Homework Gap'
While most schools in the U.S. boast broadband access these days, and plenty of assignments require the internet, when students head home, their connections are not quite in lockstep with schools...more>>

EdSurge: Summit Schools to Spin Out Learning Program
Summit Public Schools, which over the past four years has led the creation of the "Summit Learning Program" currently used by more than 380 schools around the U.S., said today that it will spin out that program into an independent nonprofit as of the 2019-2020 school year...more>>

EdDive: As choice options expand, report urges quality schools for all students
School choice options have greatly expanded in recent years, but they aren't necessarily accessible to everyone who wants them, they don't always lead to higher achievement and they don't always create more diverse schools, according to a Learning Policy Institute report released Thursday...more>>

Chalkbeat: The big IDEA: Inside the fast-growing charter network you might not know yet
It's been 20 years since teachers Tom Torkelson and JoAnn Gama founded an after-school program in Donna, Texas, a city of about 16,000 along the U.S.-Mexico border...more>>

Hechinger: Research evidence on bullying prevention at odds with what schools are doing
Punishing the bullies doesn't really help, researchers say. But what does work?...more>>

Education Week: Why Principals Need to Make Student Mental Health a Priority
Within the first eight days of school this year, three students in a suburban district East of Los Angeles killed themselves...more>>

Chalkbeat: 'You try to triage': NYC is spending big on counseling, but staff on the front lines say needs are going unmet
Eugene Harding knows what it's like to feel stretched thin. A social worker with 25 years of experience in New York City's public schools, he splits his time among three Manhattan high schools with a collective enrollment of more than 2,000 students...more>>

Education Week: The Teen Brain: How Schools Can Help Students Manage Emotions and Make Better Decisions
Adolescence tends to be seen by parents-and many teachers-with dread. Teenagers are likelier to engage in risky behaviors and disengage from school. But emerging cognitive and neuroscience research suggests ways schools can help leverage teens' strengths in this unique developmental period...more>>

Higher Ed

Chronicle: What the Midterm Elections Mean for Higher Ed
Was it a wave? Maybe not. But for Democrats, it was a win. They weathered disappointments in some high-profile races that had appeared winnable on Tuesday night, and they lost three U.S. Senate seats in the face of a challenging map...more>>

Future Podcast: The Future of Work and What It Means for Higher Ed
McKinsey Global Institute partner Susan Lund talks with Michael about what's on the horizon for the workforce and the economy and how it will affect the future of higher education...more>>

Campus Technology: IT Security Tops Educause Issues List 4 Years Running
In the coming year, IT organizations in colleges and universities expect to be grappling with "data-enabling" their institutions, funding, and setting up their units as institutional leaders and change agents...more>>

EdDive: 4 ed tech trends colleges should be ready for
The blockchain and artificial intelligence are among several technologies and practices poised to impact higher ed...more>>

EdSurge: The Beginning of a New Era in the Online Degree Market
The online degree market has been one of the fastest-growing and most resilient segments of American higher education over the last two decades. Today, more than three million students pursue higher education fully online, representing a $20-billion market...more>>

Forbes: This Company Could Be Your Next Teacher: Coursera Plots A Massive Future for Online Education
Sitting in a fluorescently lit conference room dressed in a pressed gray work shirt, jeans and gray suede sneakers, Jeff Maggioncalda, the tightly wound 49-year-old CEO of Coursera, doesn't touch his plate of plain spaghetti, edamame and artichoke hearts from the company cafeteria...more>>

Business Wire Release: Strategic Education, Inc. Launches SEI Ventures to Fund and Support Promising Ed Tech Start-Ups
Strategic Education, Inc. (SEI) announced today the launch of SEI Ventures, a seed-stage venture fund that will support pioneering education tech start-ups focused on transformational technologies and student success. In addition to providing capital, SEI Ventures will offer portfolio companies the opportunity to pilot technologies across its broad set of existing institutions, including Strayer University, Capella University, and coding boot camps...more>>

EdDive: What's the blueprint for a 21st-century college campus?
With enrollments declining and technology advancing, colleges are breaking ground on spaces that give students and faculty new ways to engage...more>>

EdSurge: Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds
The number of colleges running efforts to help professors shift from published textbooks to low-cost online materials known as OER is growing rapidly. That was one key finding in the latest Campus Computing Survey, one of the largest annual surveys of college technology leaders in the U.S., which was released today...more>>

EdSurge: Free Textbooks Are Not Always Free: New Study Analyzes OER's Costs to Colleges
A report released last week gives perhaps the most detailed accounting of the price tag to colleges looking to make significant moves to OER...more>>

EdSurge: Does OER Actually Improve Learning?
Regardless of where you stand on the debate over open educational resources, you're probably wondering: Does OER actually improve learning outcomes?...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: A Course Experiment Tackles Textbook Costs
Students in California drafted a bill to urge publishers to reveal how their textbooks changed between editions. The students convinced lawmakers to adopt the legislation. But will publishers comply?...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Gubernatorial Winners and Higher Education
Even as many were gripped by the potential change in control of Congress, races for governor could be exceptionally important for public higher education. Governors appoint board members and have great influence over appropriations. New Democratic governors in several states have ambitious plans for higher education...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: What a Divided Congress Means for Higher Education
Democrats' takeover of the U.S. House promises tougher scrutiny of DeVos and the Education Department. Donna Shalala is among those elected to U.S. House...more>>

Campus Technology: Online Programs in Continuing Higher Ed Struggle to Retain Students, Find Faculty
Even as online enrollments continued growing (3 percent last year) while overall higher education enrollments fell, a new survey among deans and directors has uncovered a "mismatch" between the online programs they help deliver and student preferences...more>>

Forbes, Michael Horn: WeWork Spurs Online Learning's Next Step Forward
WeWork, the leader in coworking spaces, has been turning heads in education circles for the last year. It acquired Flatiron, a prominent coding bootcamp, and MissionU, a one-year college alternative. Then came its partnership with 2U, the standout online program management company...more>>

Campus Technology: Nobody Knows How Well Certificates Are Doing Against Degrees
A recent analysis found major underreporting of certificate completions. Richard Garrett, chief research officer at higher education research firm Eduventures, recently examined whether the certificate was "muscling in" on degrees...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: EdX: From MicroMasters to Online Master's Degrees
Six more institutions are following Georgia Tech's lead and launching affordable online master's degrees with edX...more>>

EdSurge: 5 Ways MOOC-Based Degrees Are Different from Other Online Degrees
Online degrees are nothing new. Since the late 1990's, a steady stream of online degree programs have entered the market, including many reputable options from top-tier schools...more>>

Campus Technology: Harvard Extension School and MIT Partner for MicroMasters Credential Pathway
Learners who complete a MITx MicroMasters credential in Data, Economics, and Development Policy or Supply Chain Management can now apply their work toward a Master of Liberal Arts (ALM) degree at Harvard Extension School (HES)...more>>

EdSurge: New 2-Year Online College Aims to Grow Quickly (But Without Traditional Gen-Ed Courses)
Alternative higher education programs don't always work out. But one former Harvard University dean is giving it a try...more>>

Medium: Announcing the Winners of the Reimagining Higher Education Ecosystem Challenge
We are excited to announce the winners of the Reimagining the Higher Education Ecosystem Challenge. Through this challenge, we called upon educators, students, policymakers, industry leaders, technology developers, and the public to develop bold ideas to reimagine what the higher education ecosystem will look like in 2030 and concrete actions that we can take today to move us in that direction...more>>

Forbes: The Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2018
Where are the next unicorns? They're coming from a wide range of industries-from esports and online education, to trucking and 3-D printing, to luggage and shoes...more>>

EdSurge: Online Learning Platform, NovoEd Acquired by Boston Private Equity Firm
Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd, a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. Terms of the acquisition deal were not disclosed...more>>

EdDive: For-profit chain sues Ed. Dept. and DeVos, wants to restructure
For-profit college operator Education Corporation of America (ECA) filed a lawsuit in a federal district court in Alabama against the Education Department and its Secretary Betsy DeVos that asks the court to appoint a receiver to oversee the company's assets so it can avoid bankruptcy and restructure while completing a teach-out of campuses slated for closure...more>>

NYT: Borrowers Face Hazy Path as Program to Forgive Student Loans Stalls Under Betsy DeVos
The students attended institutions with pragmatic names like the Minnesota School of Business and others whose branding evoked ivy-draped buildings and leafy quads, like Corinthian Colleges...more>>

Fast Company: Why startups won't save student loan debtors
Students are being screwed over by recent changes to debt forgiveness programs and a new lease on life for for-profit colleges-who is out there protecting them?...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Less Accessible, Less Affordable
Two new reports find public universities less affordable for low-income students and less accessible for members of minority groups...more>>

Fortune: America's Student Loan Debt Crisis Is About to Get Much Worse
Federal student loans are the only consumer debt segment with continuous cumulative growth since the Great Recession. As the cost of tuition and borrowing continue to rise, the result is a widening default crisis that even Fed Chairman Jerome Powell labeled as a cause for concern...more>>

Hechinger: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many
Even as net prices begin to fall at some schools, many families are priced out...more>>

WSJ: The Real Cost of College Is Flattening as Schools Give More Scholarships
After increasing for decades, the real cost of attending both public and private college is flat and in some cases even declined this year, as colleges compete for fewer students by giving away more scholarships...more>>

The Atlantic: The Little College Where Tuition Is Free and Every Student Is Given a Job
Berea College, in Kentucky, has paid for every enrollee's education using its endowment for 126 years. Can other schools replicate the model?...more>>

EdDive: 2 reports highlight growing mental health concern on campus
Two new studies demonstrate increased concern over mental health issues on college campuses across the country. The research is showing that students are not more sensitive, but rather they are experiencing real trauma that needs to be addressed by the college community...more>>

UV Letters: Road to Nowhere: The Tragedy of Associate Degrees
A new shopping center was recently unveiled in my town. I took my 9-year-old son Hal to the opening and he was impressed with the giant scissors wielded jointly by the developer and mayor to cut the ribbon...more>>

Forbes: Amid College Success Push, The U.S. Overlooks the Fact That One in Four Students Are Parents
Jaime remembers the exact moment he decided to get a college degree. It was the second he learned that he was going to be a father. He and his wife had been getting by financially, but he wanted more than that for his child...more>>

EdDive: How colleges are adapting to workforce development mandates
The rise of emerging technologies is transforming America's job market, with some projections estimating that automation could displace as many as 30% of workers worldwide by 2030...more>>

WSJ: UC Berkeley's Fastest-Growing Class Is Data Science 101
University creates a division to study the science of mining digital information; 'It feels like a revolution'...more>>

The Atlantic: As Humanities Majors Decline, Colleges Try to Hype Up Their Programs
The Great Recession scared a lot of students away from the humanities. Now administrators are trying to bring them back...more>>

Deloitte: The future(s) of public higher education
How can US state universities meet growing demands for relevance even as they face a funding squeeze? Here are five innovative ways that stakeholders can collaborate to deliver an effective yet affordable educational experience...more>>

EdDive: How many colleges and universities have closed since 2016?
We're tracking closings and consolidation and looking at what the trend means for higher ed...more>>

Xconomy: All About Talent: Takeaways from MIT's $1B Plan to Lead Way in A.I.
MIT on Monday announced one of the biggest A.I. efforts to date by a higher education institution: a potentially $1 billion initiative to create a new College of Computing, which will serve as the focal point for the university's A.I. education and research efforts. MIT said it has raised $650 million so far, including $350 million from Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, for whom the college will be named...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Moody's: Graduate Business Schools Face Credit Concerns
Sinking demand for graduate business programs in the U.S., particularly from international applicants, is limiting revenue in a historically profitable area, according to Moody's, the credit rating service...more>>

Law.com: Study Finds Law Schools Are Losing $1.5 Billion Annually in Tuition
A comprehensive analysis of how law schools have responded to the shrinking applicant pool concludes that the decision by top law schools to reduce their class sizes likely staved off the closures of 20 weaker law schools...more>>

EdDive: What 6 college leaders wish they knew before taking their jobs
Administrators from Penn State University, Western Governors University, Kenyon College and more share their lessons learned...more>>

EdDive: Why college presidents keep leaving
With her announcement last week that she would step down in March, three years into a five-year term, University of North Carolina System President Margaret Spellings became the latest of several college and university presidents to depart ahead of schedule. She cited the "tough" nature of the job and said the decision to step down was a personal one...more>>

The News and Observer: UNC is changing the way it hires chancellors, after two problematic searches
UNC is changing the way it hires chancellors, after two problematic searches...more>>

Et Alia

NPR: 'We're Bringing Education Back': Takeaways from The Election
Hello! We know there's a lot of news out there, but we're bringing you an education-centric take on the midterms, with big results in some key states...more>>

EdSurge: Edtech Incubators are Fading. Here's What Will Replace Them
Edtech startup incubators? That's so 2010. That's the conclusion reached by Barbara ("Bobbi") Kurshan, a long-time veteran of the education technology world...more>>

McKinsey: Three more reasons why US education is ready for investment
The US market for educational products and services, across K-12, higher education, and corporate learning, is more than $1.75 trillion, and growing. While that figure alone warrants attention from investors, much of this market has historically been difficult for investors to access...more>>

Observatory: Ten strategic technology trends towards 2019
Gartner forecasts ten strategic technology trends towards 2019, which companies must embrace to innovate, identify opportunities, counteract threats and create competitive advantages. The IT expert recommends industry leaders to explore artificial intelligence (AI) in work environments and in products and services offered; to discover where AI can automate or increase human activities...more>>

Brookings: What do the 2018 midterm elections mean for education in America?
Nationwide, education was not a top issue for many voters on Election Day-far from it. At the same time, the 2018 state and national elections may have important consequences for education policy across the U.S...more>>

CNBC: The future of work won't be about college degrees, it will be about job skills
According to the survey Freelancing in America 2018, released Wednesday, 93 percent of college-educated freelancers say their skill training is more useful in the work they are doing now than their college training...more>>

GSV: ASU GSV X10
Celebrating a decade of transformational education and talent technology entrepreneurs...more>>

EdDive: Trump is scrapping Obama ed groundwork one policy at a time - and there's likely more to come
The current administration hasn't hesitated to eliminate some of its predecessor's cornerstone education policies. Which have been cut, and which could be next?...more>>

The Atlantic: America Is Divided by Education
The gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it...more>>

Wired: The Midterm Election Didn't Salvage Net Neutrality
Tuesday's Midterms don't shed much light on the future of net neutrality. But advocates do see rays of hope shining through the fog of uncertainty...more>>

WSJ: Candidates from Venture Ecosystem in Electoral Limelight
A cast of characters from the venture and tech scenes figured prominently (and mostly with success) on Tuesday...more>>

EdSurge: Why the World's Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator
Humanity's future may well be in Africa, where 60 percent of the population are under the age of 25. Yet their prospects are perilous...more>>

EdSurge: Meet the 83-Year-Old App Developer Who Says Edtech Should Better Support Seniors
"Lifelong learning" may be the latest buzzword in education. But for Masako Wakamiya, it's much more than lip service. Three years ago, at the ripe age of 80, Wakamiya decided to learn how to code...more>>

Campus Technology: Apple, Samsung Reign in Shrinking Tablet Market
While Apple still dominates the tablet market, sales of all such devices have fallen worldwide, according to market data from International Data Corp...more>>

EdSurge: China's Yuanfudao Raises $250 Million From Tencent at $2.8 Billion Valuation
Founded in 2012, Yuanfudao currently offers live tutoring services covering K-12 school subjects and courses for adult learners. According to The Information, the company earned an estimated 700 million yuan (approximately US $101 million) last year...more>>

EdSurge: The Uphill Battles Facing Asia's Education Technology Startups
Japan has earned a reputation for exporting successful products and services from different industries. In technology, Sony and Nintendo are among the most internationally recognized brands. In education, the tutoring center Kumon has franchises across the world...more>>

Fast Company: Bucking a trend, ed-tech startup Pluralsight adds more women to its board
On the heels of its splashy IPO, Utah-based Pluralsight added two high-profile female executives to its board...more>>

EdSurge: YouTube Launches $20 Million Fund as Part of 'Learning' Initiative
Ever turn to YouTube to learn "how to" do something? You're hardly alone. Last year, videos with those two words in the title amassed over a billion hours of viewing time, according to a YouTube spokesperson...more>>

Influencer Update: How Next 10 Ventures' EduCreator program will strengthen the supply and diversity of content in the educational sector
This week, Next 10 Ventures revealed EduCreator, an incubation program set up to invest in educational creators and channels...more>>

Venture Beat: Fiverr launches education platform for freelancers, classes start at $19
Freelance marketplace Fiverr today announced that it's getting into the online education game, where it will compete with the likes of Coursera and Udemy...more>>

ExcelinEd: College and Career Pathways: Equity and Access
ExcelinEd's new analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education reveals that too many students in every state do not have the chance to take fundamental courses needed to prepare them for college and career...more>>

Fast Company: The dark side of gamifying work
One of the most common user experiences of our time is also a tool of social control. And nowhere is that more true than in the workplace...more>>

MIT Sloan: Preparing for the Coming Skill Shifts
In the age of AI, companies should focus on retraining the people they already have...more>>

HBR: When Companies Should Invest in Training Their Employees - and When They Shouldn't
According to one industry report, U.S. companies spent over $90 billion dollars on training and development activities in 2017, a year-over-year increase of 32.5 %. While many experts emphasize the importance and benefits of employee development - a more competitive workforce, increased employee retention, and higher employee engagement - critics point to a painful lack of results from these investments...more>>

Chief Learning Officer: Women in Ed Tech: Technically Proficient
There are more women in education technology when compared to the technology industry as a whole, but far fewer when compared to the L&D industry. Several factors can explain the disparity within these three related fields...more>>

McKinsey: Making work meaningful: A leader's guide
People who find meaning at work are happier, more productive, and more engaged. Four practical interventions can help make the search more likely to succeed...more>>

HR Technologist: Top 3 Employee Engagement Trends for 2019
Employee engagement has emerged as a top area of focus for employers everywhere. With increasing adoption of technology and innovative workforce management strategies, leaders can now focus more on keeping their talent happy and engaged...more>>

Inside Higher E: A Learning Perspective on Netflix's Corporate Culture
I read the WSJ article on the toxic corporate culture at Netflix with much horror and little surprise. The article, At Netflix, Radical Transparency and Blunt Firings Unsettle the Ranks, details through dozens of interviews with current and former staffers what life is like inside the company. The article paints an alarming picture of Netflix's management style and work environment...more>>

Forbes: The No. 1 Reason Employees Say They've Stopped Learning Is Because They Don't Have Time
Busy, busy, busy, busy. In today's organization, speed has become a weapon against thoughtfulness and an employee's self-development plan...more>>

HRDive: White House: 'Pledge to America's Workers' will create 6M training opportunities
The Pledge, launched in July, called for stakeholders to sign on; 20 companies and associations did so initially, agreeing to create almost 4 million training opportunities during the next five years...more>>

PEW Internet: Many Turn to YouTube for Children's Content, News, How-To Lessons
A majority of Americans across a wide range of demographic groups are YouTube adopters, with younger Americans standing out as especially avid users of the site. A new Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults finds that these users are turning to YouTube for much more than entertainment...more>>

The EvoLLLution: The 60 Year Curriculum: Developing New Educational Models to Serve the Agile Labor Market
With the sponsorship of Harvard's Division of Continuing Education (DCE), I'm participating in an initiative centered on The Sixty Year Curriculum (60YC). The Dean of DCE, Hunt Lambert, is leading this effort to transform lifelong learning, which is now a necessity in our dynamic, chaotic world...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Next for SNHU: Game-Based Learning and Digital Badges for Middle Schoolers
The university and its large online division plan to create a "seamless pathway" between K-12, college and students' first jobs.?...more>>

Chronicle: Can an Innovative Online College Help Adults Stay Employed?
Stephen M. Kosslyn spent his 40-year academic career teaching at elite institutions where, he says, "a lot of those students didn't really need me." If you take him at his word, that also goes a long way toward explaining his announcement last week that he was launching a new venture called Foundry College, an online institution designed help prepare adults for middle-skill jobs that won't leave them vulnerable to losing their livelihoods to a robot in the years to come...more>>

Inside Higher Ed: Credentialing Evolves as Demand Grows for Middle-Skills Jobs
The bachelor's degree remains by far the best ticket to a well-paying job, according to new research from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, which defines "good jobs" as ones that pay at least $35,000 -- and an average of $56,000 for workers with less than a bachelor's degree...more>>

Washington Post: The new job for life: Learning
For centuries, education has been seen as something that happens to young people. A college degree, in particular, is often considered a once-in-a-lifetime experience, typically completed in one's early 20s. As a result, most U.S. colleges focus on recruiting some 2 million teenagers who graduate from high school annually, even though there is a much larger market of 80 million American adults who dropped out of college or never went at all...more>>

The EvoLLLution: What Will Be Important in the Learn and Work Ecosystem in 2030? How Do We Prepare?
Lifelong learning is going to be a central element of the workforce of 2030, meaning postsecondary institutions and education providers need to engage in a shift to serve this new kind of student...more>>

Campus Technology: South Carolina Offering Free Online Coding Courses for All Residents
South Carolina has introduced free coding education for all of its residents through an agreement between the state's Department of Commerce Office of Innovation and Build Carolina, a nonprofit that generates internships, apprenticeships and other education endeavors in innovative fields...more>>

EdSurge: The Rise of Early-Career Enhancers in Education
At the end of a student's journey, are bootcamps and online-learning platforms-just two examples of the recent explosion in new education providers that equip students with professional skills to be successful in jobs-that different from one another?...more>>

McKinsey: Digital strategy: The four fights you have to win
Yesterday's tentative approaches won't deliver; you need absolute clarity about digital's demands, galvanized leadership, unparalleled agility, and the resolve to bet boldly...more>>

McKinsey: Getting your story straight
Emotional stories help innovative ideas attract attention-and get funded. Here are the narratives that help good ideas break through...more>>

Fortune: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Others Just Put Millions into Student Recruitment Startup Handshake
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropic arm of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, has invested in Handshake, a fast-growing startup focused on job recruitment for college students...more>>

Forbes, Vander Ark: The Coming Social Economy
More than a third of the American workforce participates in the freelance economy. The majority of current high school students will spend at least part of their careers freelancing...more>>

Observatory: Google bets 25 million on AI social projects
Google challenges developers and organizations to create initiatives with artificial intelligence (AI) that solve social and environmental problems. The prize consists of technological support, consulting and an economic fund of up to 25 million dollars...more>>

McKinsey: The promise and challenge of the age of artificial intelligence
AI promises considerable economic benefits, even as it disrupts the world of work. These three priorities will help achieve good outcomes...more>>

NYT: The Next Tech Talent Shortage: Quantum Computing
By some estimates, only 1,000 or so researchers can claim to understand the technology. Finding more could become a national security issue...more>>