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Tech News from the

Recent Past and NearFuture

Jason B. Jones, ProfHacker co-editor | @jbjGoldie Blumenstyk, Chronicle reporter | @GoldieStandard

Jeff Young, Chronicle tech editor | @jryoung



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What we used to mean

when we talked about thefor-profit higher education

industry?Companies like the Apollo EducationGroups, DeVry, Corinthian Colleges Inc.



What do we mean today

when we talk about for-profit higher education

industry? Also, companies like 2U, Civitas, Echo360, Acrobatiq, Smart Sparrow, Koru, etc.



What’s changed?

Private companies are playing a more-directrole in the actual process of educating

students.



Like the software services now housed inthe cloud, these services are no longerwholly housed on campus nor wholly

controlled by university faculty andadministrators.



Myriad Implications forCampus Leaders



1.

Memorize this simple(slightly

ungrammatical) six-wordquestion:

“What research is thisbased on?”



2.

Colleges should be

prepared to ask, andcompanies should be

prepared toanswer: ”What is the

upgrade cycle?”



3.

Are there some protocols

and best practices that canbe developed for what the

geeks call “rapid cycleevaluations?”



Source: Fortune Ma azine



The language of a CEO

“We think of it like a

robot tutor in the skythat can semi-read your

mind and figure outwhat your strengthsand weaknesses are,down to the percentile.”



Former College

Admin’s Take “I’m sorry, but this sort of

quasi-mystical garbagedebases the very notion ofeducation and harmsKnewton’s brand in the

process.” -MichaelFeldstein



Former College

Admin’s Take “If you want to sell me a product that helps

students to learn, then don’t insult my

intelligence. Explain what the damned thingdoes in clear, concrete, and straightforwardlanguage, with real-world examples whenpossible.”

-Michael Feldstein



Buzzword



Richard

Culatta,US Ed Dept.

"In order to take this from an, ‘Oh that’s an

interesting idea,’ to something you can actually

implement, we have to get more precise with our

language."



Culatta’s Definitions

Competency-based learning: you move when you showyou can do.

Adaptive learning: technology assigns educationalresources.Individualized learning: adjusts the pace of instruction.Differentiated learning: adjusts the instructional

approach.Personalized learning: adjusts pace, approach, andadds student agency.



Why Now?



Before



Teacher ‘Dashboards’

•Sal Khan: “Our

paradigm is to really arm

the teachers with asmuch data as possible…

so the teacher canactually diagnosis what’s

wrong with the studentso they can make theirinteraction as productiveas possible.”



Studio Boom atColleges



Also boom ininstructional designers



Cautionary Tale of UF

Online



• $35-million effort that was urged by the FloridaLegislature in 2013

• Suffered poor enrollment, especially from out of

state



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