By Rick Seltzer. As deal to keep Wisconsin Business School name intact approaches its halfway mark, donors consider what it means -- and the changing nature of honoring donors. More...
11 juillet 2017
11 juillet 2017
Potentially bumpy regulatory road ahead for Purdue-Kaplan deal
By Doug Lederman. Purdue University's proposal last month to buy Kaplan University, the degree-granting arm of the for-profit education company that bears the Kaplan name, has the potential to reshape the online learning landscape and redefine the role of public universities. More...
11 juillet 2017
Civitas, Predictive Analytics Company, Draws Nonprofit Investors
By Doug Lederman. Civitas Learning, whose predictive-analytics platform several hundred colleges and universities are using to monitor student success, announced that two philanthropies, Lumina Foundation and Valhalla Charitable Foundation, had invested in the company. More...
11 juillet 2017
Experiments With a New Way of Paying for College
By Doug Lederman. Colleges (and nontraditional providers) experiment with income-share agreements as innovation that could help some people afford education and training. More...
11 juillet 2017
Coursera CEO Steps Down
By Carl Straumsheim. Coursera's chief executive officer, Rick Levin, is stepping down, the online education provider said Tuesday. Levin, a former president of Yale University, joined Coursera in 2014 and will shift to a senior adviser role, according to a spokesperson. More...
11 juillet 2017
Coursera Closes $64 Million Round of Funding
By Carl Straumsheim. Online education provider Coursera said Wednesday that it had raised another $64 million, bringing its total equity funding to more $210 million. More...
27 mai 2017
One business case for OER examined
By . Distance Education is one of the oldest and most established journals in the field. It is the journal of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) and over the years it has published some of the best research in distance education. However, it is not an open access journal, so I am providing my own personal review of one of the articles in this, generally excellent, edition. I should point out though that I am a member of the editorial board so do have an interest in supporting this journal. More...
26 mai 2017
Barnes & Noble Education’s Predictive Analytics Deal With Unizin
By Phil Hill. Barnes & Noble Education (BNED) announced today that they have a deal with Unizin to provide predictive analytics services through the LoudSight platform to the consortium’s member universities. More...
25 mai 2017
Trump administration praises Ohio State’s work promoting exports
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Ohio State University’s business school has won an award from the U.S. Department of Commerce for its work expanding exports. More...
25 mai 2017
INDECT installs guidance system in Texas A&M parking facility
Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. INDECT USA today announced the installation of a state-of-the-art parking guidance system in Texas A&M University’s Cain Garage. More...
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