Showing posts with label edtech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label edtech. Show all posts
Monday, March 31, 2025

How Severance Mirrors U.S. Higher Education Administration: The Compartmentalization and Bureaucracy of Modern Academia

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In the dystopian world of Severance , employees undergo a controversial procedure that separates their work lives from their personal lives,...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

AFT President Selling Out to Edtech?

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American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten is scheduled to speak at the upcoming  ASU-GSV summit . For 16 years, the...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Scheduled for ASU+GSV Summit, April 8, 2025

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On April 8, 2025, US Secretary of Education Linda McMahon will give a fireside chat at ASU+GSV, an edtech conference held in San Diego, Cali...
Monday, January 20, 2025

Ambow Education Continues to Fish in Murky Waters

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In May 2022, The Higher Education Inquirer began investigating Ambow Education after we received credible tips about the company as a bad a...
Saturday, December 21, 2024

Tech Investor Cathie Wood Bets Big on Crypto

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Cathie Wood , once the largest shareholder in 2U with ARK Invest , is also a major crypto investor. Wood believes that Bitcoin could top $1...
Thursday, December 19, 2024

"Best for the Kids": Michael Moe Interviews Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos (Ed on the Edge)

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This interview with GSV's Michael Moe and former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reveals commonly held views in edtech circles and tr...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

More Layoffs at 2U, the Online Program Manager for Elite Universities

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2U, the parent company of edX, has announced more layoffs today. The layoffs were announced to staff and it's not known yet whethe...
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Guild (Education) No Longer Glitters: Layoffs, Toxic Work Environment, Questionable Acquisition

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Here's our latest analysis of Guild (formerly Guild Education ) based on a limited amount of publicly available data. Guild is a third-p...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Rehumanization in Higher Education: An Alternative to Maximizing Panic and Profit

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It's questionable whether the Earth's tech bros (e.g. Gates, Musk, Bezos, Thiel, Zuckerberg) really believe in democracy, but t...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Ambow's HybriU. Is any of this real?

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Ambow Education is at it again, pumping up its stock with another edtech business deal. This time, they sent out a press release that a Sin...
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Saturday, August 3, 2024

Higher Education, Technology, and A Growing Social Anxiety

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The Era We Are In We are living in a neoliberal/libertarian era filled with technological change, emotional and behavioral change, and soci...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

HurricaneTWOU.com: Digital Protest Exposes Syracuse, USC, Pepperdine, and University of North Carolina in 2U edX Edugrift

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A new website to inform student consumers has popped up. It's called HurricaneTWOU.com . The website authors identify themselves as a gr...