By Carl Straumsheim. Xavier University in Ohio will later this month become the home to the first pizza ATM in the U.S., The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. The $55,000 machine, which will be located in the Fenwick Place residence hall, is open for business around the clock and cooks a 12-inch pizza in about three minutes, according to reports. Read more...
By Carl Straumsheim. Blackboard's parent company, Providence Equity Partners, is acquiring the higher education financial company Higher One for $260 million. Read more...
Annually, academic consulting firms like Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher Education release what they call global rankings of universities. These rankings have been an outcome of the globalization of higher education. Higher education is now a “new sport,” of course with undertones of making these “globally-ranked” reputations bases to help bolster universities’ academic missions and entrepreneurial standing. More...
By Jarrett Carter. As the liberal arts mission and higher education culture views college as a more than a manufacturing plant churning out work-ready robots, global industry and financial markets are expecting schools to do just that, in order to help society adapt to changes in technology and export. More...
By Mariel Reed. As the world’s biggest Internet market, China is an alluring prospect for U.S. tech firms, including edtech players. China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 billion by 2018. More...
Posted . A dynamic small business sector can heighten competition and underpin productivity growth, as discussed in the 2016 OECD Economic Survey of Canada and Carey et al. (2016, forthcoming). Dynamism tends to be reflected in high start-up rates and strong ‘up-or-out’ dynamics. More...
Acquisition of Higher One will broaden company’s financial services offerings to institutions, students and parents. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Business Leaders Have Abandoned the Middle Class
Umair Haque, Harvard Business Review, 2016/07/01
It's so nice to see Umair Haque emerge from the shadows, so to speak. And isn't this true of education. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Microsoft to Acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 Billion
Jay Greene, Anne Steele, Wall Street Journal, 2016/06/13
Last week, I got an email telling me to change my password because the LinkedIn database had been hacked. Today, Microsoft is buying the company. No, I'm not saying the events are linked. More...
By Roel Nieuwenkamp. These days a critical mass of investors promote investment approaches which take into consideration environmental, social, governance (ESG) factors, otherwise known as responsible investment. Investors involved in the ‘Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative, a membership based organization which seeks to promote responsible investment, currently manage over $60 trillion in assets. More...
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