This Ain’t Your Mother’s (or Father’s) University Education !!
May 20, 2013 Leave a comment
Excerpt from College (UN)bound by Jeff Selingo
Infographic Designed by NikolaM and AnitaS
The Right to Educational Access
May 19, 2013 Leave a comment
Commissioned by the Twenty Million Minds Foundation this report provides the research underpinnings for CA Senate Bill 520 introduced by President pro Tempore, Darrell Steinberg.
| The Right to Educational Access: Using Online Education to Address Bottleneck Courses in California. Commissioned by The 20 Million Minds Foundation Authored by Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein of MindWires Consulting Severe cuts – including those to faculty jobs, course offerings, and student services endured by California’s public colleges and universities – have created difficult barriers to students’ successful completion of courses and degrees. As Governor Brown and the Legislature express interest in exploring how education technology can decrease students’ time to degree completion and reduce costs, state and national attention has focused on how online education, in its many forms, can be leveraged for the benefit of students.Highlights include:
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States and #EdTech Propose Common Edu App Marketplace for #HigherEd; @Google Does It!
May 19, 2013 Leave a comment
In the past two weeks, State Higher Ed, [and separately] Ed Tech vendors have proposed Common App Marketplaces so schools can have access to the watershed of innovation occurring in the Higher Ed space. While they were proposing Google just went out and did it:
Google’s Play for Education hackeducation.com/2013/05/17/goo…
— Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) May 18, 2013
A #HigherEd AppExchange? …. Online Education ‘Common Marketplace’ Proposed huff.to/16Ws1ck @forcedotcom @boomi @salesforce @dayngr
— studentforce (@studentforce) May 3, 2013
Our new post from @whitmer explains why Instructure is doing the App Bounty with Blackboard and Desire2Learn ow.ly/l1ycq #li13
— Instructure Canvas (@instructure) May 14, 2013
Platform Future
May 13, 2013 Leave a comment
The future of mobile education belongs to platforms.
GUEST COLUMN | by Andrew Cohen
“What’s your go-to-market strategy?” “How are you going to cut through the noise?” “How are you different than ‘X’?” These are increasingly common questions that mobile education startups are getting asked by investors these days, and few entrepreneurs have great answers. Indeed, with over 50,000 education apps on the App Store, today’s app developers must spend more and more resources on product and marketing in order to cut through the noise.
