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EDBRIEF: The Internet’s Impact on Education and Morality
Pew Research Center asked more than 36,000 people across 32 emerging and developing countries worldwide on the positive effects as well as the drawbacks the Internet has had on different aspects of...
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MEP #013 with Matt Candler, Founder of 4.0 Schools
On episode 013 of Meet Education Project, 4.0 Schools founder Matt Candler joins the program to talk about developing new school models, school choice, the importance of people over experience, and the...
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EDBRIEF: Udemy launches Teacher Tech Initiative
Global education marketplace Udemy announced the launch of its Teacher Tech Initiative at the fifth annual White House Science Fair. Through the initiative K-12 teachers in the United States get access...
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Startup Profile: Coursmos
The Internet increasingly establishes the need for instant gratification. Information that used to take time to source and process is now available 24/7 and this basically anywhere we have...
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Can Higher Education Keep Pace with Constant Transformation?
You don’t know what you think you know. Planned obsolescence is often cited as the way tech companies (Apple) can guarantee sales: after a few years, their devices and software would either break down...
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EDBRIEF: EdTech Veterans launch EDGE Accelerator – offer $170k in Funding
Don Burton, former Managing Director of the Kaplan/Techstars EdTech Accelerator, and Jonathan D. Harber, co-founder and CEO of Schoolnet, teamed up to launch a new edtech accelerator program in New...
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Startup Profile: LumenEd
Connecting classrooms across the globe via the Internet has become the new pen pal program, and initiatives like Skype in the Classroom and its instant translation feature are certainly leading the way...
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MEP #016 with Jerry Michalski, Founder of the Relationship Economy Expedition
In episode 016 of Meet Education Project, the founder of the Relationship Economy Expedition (REX) Jerry Michalski joins the program to discuss how “consumer” is a bad word, what “unschooling” really...
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Big Data is Finally Coming to Education Here’s What We’ve Learned So Far
Big data has been the story of the past year. Nearly every industry sector has been hit by the urge to quantify, measure, and analyze, and they are using that information to improve their products and...
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What I Learned From 263 Venture Capitalists
Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to meet, pitch, get rejected, and accepted by lots of investors. After building two companies that were venture and angel backed in aggregate of millions of...
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MEP #017 with Mitch Weathers, Founder of Organized Binder
On episode 017 of MEP, teacher and founder of Organized Binder, Mitch Weathers, joins the program to talk about teaching character over content and why an Organized Binder is so beneficial to educators...
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College Disruption Won’t Come from MOOCs (But it Does Need to Happen)
Every day I drive my daughter to high school. As we get closer to the parking lot, I have to be mindful of all of the teenagers wandering in and out of the road like dazed cattle. I also have to brave...
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EDBRIEF: edX settles Disabilities Lawsuit with U.S. Department of Justice
The U.S. Department of Justice and MOOC platform edX announced the settlement over allegations that the courses hosted on edX were not accessible to students with disabilities. The lawsuit with filed...
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EDBRIEF: TakeLessons partners with Amazon Home Services
Tutoring marketplace TakeLessons has partnered with Amazon to provide tutors for its newly launched Amazon Home Services platform. TakeLessons started as a music-centric tutoring marketplace in 2006....
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HEDLINE: LinkedIn to acquire Lynda.com for $1.5 billion
Professional social network LinkedIn announced its intention to acquire online learning company Lynda.com for around $1.5 billion. The deal is expected to close during the second quarter of 2015 and...
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MEP #021 with Shauntel Poulson, Associate Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund
How cool would it be to talk with ed tech entrepreneurs about their ideas and businesses, and provide funding to the best, well rounded entrepreneurs to help bring that product or service to teachers...
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When do Teachers get to “spend” their Data?
If you're a teacher, you've been making extensive deposits into “data banks” for years. You've frugally saved student information system data like demographics, attendance, formative and summative...
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Startup Profile: Genius Games
Name: Genius Games Website: www.gotgeniusgames.com Kickstarter: Ion - A Compound Building Game Headquarters: St. Louis Vertical: K-12, STEM Tech: Physical Product Introduce your startup and give a...
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Why Etsy’s Successful IPO will Fuel Interest in Online Courses
Etsy, a global marketplace for handcrafted goods, had its IPO last week. On the first day of trading the company closed with a solid plus of 86%. While I won’t get into a detailed analysis of Etsy’s...
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MEP #024 with Jack McDermott, Tufts Student & Tech Entrepreneur
It is a natural human emotion (for most of us) to make excuses about why one should not take action. Not Jack McDermott. Jack is 21 years old, and he has taken more action than most of us have in a...
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