How Venture Capital Misses the Boat With Higher Education Technology
Blogger and self-proclaimed “troublemaker” Audrey Watters discusses venture capital in education, learning analytics, artificial intelligence and more. Campus Technology
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How Higher Education Remains Viable in a Dynamic World
To better grasp the numerous issues confronting the higher education industry and identify ways to refine an imperfect but crucial system, IBM consulted experts from both industry and academia. In collaboration with the Economist Intelligence Unit, the IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed more than 900 academic industry leaders from private and public colleges and […]
How Technology Is Destroying Jobs
Given his calm and reasoned academic demeanor, it is easy to miss just how provocative Erik Brynjolfsson’s contention really is. Brynjolfsson, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and his collaborator and coauthor Andrew McAfee have been arguing for the last year and a half that impressive advances in computer technology—from improved industrial […]
Open Letter on the Digital Economy
A group of leading technologists, economists, and investors propose a new approach to help us adapt to new technologies. MIT Technology Review
Economics of scholarly communication in transition
Academic library budgets are the primary source of revenue for scholarly journal publishing. There is more than enough money in the budgets of academic libraries to fund a fully open access scholarly journal publishing system. Seeking efficiencies, such as a reasonable average cost per article, will be key to a successful transition. This article presents […]
A Boom Time for Education Start-Ups
Despite recession investors see technology companies’ ‘Internet moment’ Harsh economic realities mean trouble for college leaders. But where administrators perceive an impending crisis, investors increasingly see opportunity. In recent years, venture capitalists have poured millions into education-technology start-ups, trying to cash in on a market they see as ripe for a digital makeover. And lately, […]
Venture Fund for Traditional Colleges
The space between nonprofit and for-profit higher education gets a little more crowded today. University Ventures Fund, a $100 million investment partnership founded by a quartet of veterans of the for-profit and nonprofit education sectors, is the latest entrant in a market that aims to use private capital to expand the reach and impact of […]
Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools
By almost every educational measure, the Agora Cyber Charter School is failing. Nearly 60 percent of its students are behind grade level in math. Nearly 50 percent trail in reading. A third do not graduate on time. And hundreds of children, from kindergartners to seniors, withdraw within months after they enroll. SOURCE: The New York […]
In New Partnership, James Madison U. Offers Credit for Online Rosetta Stone Course
One of the most buzzed-about experiments in higher education lately is StraighterLine, a company that offers online versions of introductory courses and works in partnership with universities that award credit to students for completing them.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher EducationRead the Full Article
Indiana U. Helps Shape Economic Terms of eText Transition
This month, Indiana University made agreements with a software company and five publishers that influence the economic terms for the future of e-textbooks.SOURCE: ConvergeRead the Full Article
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