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The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.” That might include doing research, building tech tools or helping manage organizations.
Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University. Then yep, we’re on board.”
And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. Innovations such as stackable non-degree credentials as an on-ramp and low-cost MOOC-based degrees from top universities are likely to only grow access to post-baccalaureate education.
A number of colleges have partnered with big MOOC providers, principally Coursera and edX, to offer large-scale online courses at far lower prices, in part to attract new students to their higher-priced online degrees. But MOOC-based degrees are just at the starting line of what appears to be a rush to hang discount tags on online degrees.
In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.
That’s what the former MOOCs [such as Coursera and Udacity] have driven toward for a business model and they’re getting some revenue and scale out of it. Even the sale of Kaplan University to Purdue University represents a different competitive approach. I did say to the CEO of Kaplan, who's a good friend, "Welcome to our space."
Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. I heard the CEO of edX claim the phrase “data science” didn’t exist a decade ago.
Attendees will also hear from other speakers including Heather Hiles (Deputy Dir Solutions for Postsecondary at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Bror Saxberg (CLO at Kaplan), and more. Thursday, March 9 K-12 9:30 a.m.
CZI hired Bror Saxberg , whose previous work was with the for-profit online charter school K12 Inc and the for-profit college Kaplan, as its learning scientist. It hired David Plouffe , Obama’s ex-campaign manager who had most recently worked at Uber. It hired former PayPal exec Peggy Abkemeier Alford as its CFO.
“Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” ” – Thomas Edison, 1922. The ghosts of broken promises.
And then the MOOC providers themselves started working with colleges and universities. There was a big announcement recently that Purdue University is essentially acquiring Kaplan University for a dollar and creating a new type of public university. What do you make of this?
Kaplan , Princeton Review , Tutor.com … the list goes on and on. MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Sometimes you could give your solution away for free and they still wouldn’t switch. In fact, a freebie option is emerging as some schools are adopting Google Classroom as a lightweight LMS. Yet another Test Prep Provider.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Edsurge reports that Weld North Education will still be run by former Kaplan exec Jonathan Grayer. For-profit colleges bought and sold in the “business of education” section below. And more too on accreditation for for-profits in the accreditation section below.
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology. .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” Meanwhile on Campus… (From last Friday.
” That’s Kaplan University and the Art Institutes. More on the Kaplan news via The Chronicle of Higher Education. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.”
Via Inside Higher Ed : “The as-yet unnamed online university resulting from the proposed acquisition of Kaplan University by Purdue University has set discounted tuition rates for in-state students and free tuition for Purdue employees.” .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. For-profit Hickey College will close.
More on the for-profit formerly known as Kaplan University in the online education section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” This new school is a result of Purdue’s acquisition of the for-profit Kaplan University. ” The school: the Electronic Classroom of the Future.
“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Via The New York Times : “U.S.
” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.
More on last week’s Purdue and Kaplan deal: “ Purdue ’s deal for Kaplan U trades a long-term business relationship for low up-front costs while raising worries – especially among faculty groups – about blurred lines between public and private higher ed,” Inside Higher Ed reports. .”
In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. There were several high profile closures of bootcamps — Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc.,
.” There are more stories about Purdue University Global, formerly the for-profit Kaplan University, in the “labor and management” section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive.
” That’s Kaplan , in case you can’t keep all these for-profit disasters straight. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). .” Via Edsurge : “Why Purdue Professors Continue to Protest Purdue’s Purchase of a For-Profit U.” other drivers? cyclists?)
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Here’s a link to all the stories in Slate’s series on online credit recovery programs. “After the Hype, Do MOOC Ventures Like edX Still Matter?” The coding bootcamp Andela is expanding into Uganda , Techcrunch reports. Accreditation and Certification.
” There were some high-profile academic hires however, including John Vogel (Dartmouth), Don Sexton (Columbia), Jack Kaplan (Columbia), and Roger Schank (Carnegie Mellon). The State Department did partner with Coursera – Laureate Education is an investor – to promote MOOCs globally.
Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ? The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.
” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims.
Via Edsurge : “Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Good job, team.). Via The New York Times : “U.S. .”
Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “As Kaplan Sale Faces Final Hurdle, Purdue President Criticizes Faculty Opponents.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Of course. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Ashford U. Faces New Setback in Battle Over GI Bill Funds.”
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). million from Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, the Twilio.org Impact Fund, New York Ventures, Excell Technology Ventures, GingerBread Capital, and u2i. ” Inside Higher Ed reports that “ Laureate Mulling Sale of Walden University.”
And before you sic your PR team on me, yes, I realize that Purdue Global is not a for-profit, even though it’s mostly a rebranded Kaplan. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more news about that “new for-profit” Purdue Global in the legal section above.
Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. .” Via The Wall Street Journal : “Number of Students Applying for Federal Aid Rises 6%, After Several Years of Decline.” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. More from Inside Higher Ed , from Edsurge ( disclosure alert !),
Via The Washington Post : “A hiccup in Purdue ’s acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University.” ” Via The Journal & Courier : “Purdue disputes claims Kaplan deal leaves taxpayers on hook.” ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story.
An op-ed in Inside Higher Ed from EAB’s Melanie Hoe : “What the Purdue-Kaplan Deal Means for You.” ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. ” Fox.
The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” A MOOC consortium , that is, with member institutions Davidson College , Colgate University , Hamilton College , and Wellesley College. ” asks Edsurge.
” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. These have all been separate articles in each series. “More Americans just need the right training.” “Robots” – not bosses.
” Via The Conversation : “ Purdue-Kaplan deal blurs lines between for-profit and public colleges.” ” There’s more on the new Kaplan in the accreditation section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. Via Edsurge : “?In
Kaplan Inc has agreed to acquire the College for Financial Planning from Apollo Education Group. Looks like Kaplan Inc isn’t getting out of for-profit higher ed altogether, even with the sale of Kaplan University to Purdue.). MOOCs are out. It’s an amazing amazing breakthrough. More via Techcrunch.
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