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Venture Capitalist Argues For Cheaper And Faster Alternatives to College
Access to higher education is a big topic these days, but debates about how to expand access often assume a one-size-fits-all model of what college s…
7 years, 10 months ago
Why Purdue Professors Continue to Protest Purdue’s Purchase of a For-Profit U.
If Purdue University’s purchase of the for-profit Kaplan University can be thought of as a wedding, there were plenty of people in the audience shout…
7 years, 11 months ago
What Happens When A Public University Buys a For-Profit Online One?
When leaders of Purdue University wanted to move into online education, they took the unusual step of buying an existing online university, a big one…
7 years, 11 months ago
You Know Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Now Meet Comedic Scientist Sophia Shrand.
There is an art to making science fun and entertaining. Bill Nye has done it, and so has Neil deGrasse Tyson. Maybe now it’s time for a woman? For th…
7 years, 11 months ago
Beyond Tuition: How Innovations in College Affordability Are (or Aren’t) Helping Students
The college affordability crisis is a familiar story to most Americans. A simplified version often goes that state funding for higher-ed institutions…
7 years, 11 months ago
The Problem With an 'Engineering Model' of Personalized Learning
In the education technology business, Larry Berger is considered—if not the smartest guy in the room, then certainly one of the wiser ones. With more…
7 years, 11 months ago
This Australian University Wants to Rethink the Student Experience
In Australia, there’s a university that was set up to focus on distance education called Deakin University. It started about 40 years ago -- before t…
8 years ago
To Spark and Scale Innovation in District Schools, ‘Every Day Is Day One’
Running a lemonade stand may be the most entrepreneurial project that students get to experience. But increasingly, schools leaders want to take the …
8 years ago
Why the Lumina Foundation Is Betting Big on New Kinds of Credentials
A college degree isn’t the only path to meaningful work. In fact, these days it seems like there are more kinds of credentials than ever, some new on…
8 years ago
The Case For a ‘Networked' College
The campus of the future will be “networked,” argues Peter Smith, meaning that more and more academic-related services will be outsourced. That, in t…
8 years ago