All posts by Henry Kronk
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Capital Expenditures on Tech and Improvements at Schools Remain 31% Below Pre-Recession: Analysis
August 24, 2019 Henry Kronk
Capital expenditures—the funds made available to K-12 schools to improve facilities, boost their IT network, and install new technology to improve education in…
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Advocates Warn About a Potential ‘Facebook of Higher Education’ with McGraw-Hill Cengage Merger
August 21, 2019 Henry Kronk
Student advocates have continued to send letters to the U.S. Department of Justice demanding that they block the proposed merger between education publishers…
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Merriam-Webster Launches Puku, an Adaptive Vocabulary Training App
August 20, 2019 Henry Kronk
The publisher Merriam-Webster announced on August 20 that it had developed a title that one won’t be able to find in the reference…
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With Outlier, MasterClass Co-Founder Aaron Rasmussen Brings Studio Production to Undergrad Online Courses
August 18, 2019 Henry Kronk
Aaron Rasmussen, the co-founder of MasterClass, on August 13 announced the launch Outlier.org, a new high-quality online course initiative targeted at undergrads. MasterClass…
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VR in Post-Secondary Education and Skill Training: What Academics Know
August 15, 2019 Henry Kronk
VR headsets as we know them today have been around for just over six years. Educators and instructors have begun to use them…
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Apple Is Leading the Charge Into College Life with Mobile Credentials
August 13, 2019 Henry Kronk
Some today argue that the battle for K-12 classroom devices is over. But a new arena is stirring on college campuses. On August…
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Senators Raise Concern Over Edtech Data Collection Practices, Sending Letters to Dozens of Providers and Data Brokers
August 13, 2019 Henry Kronk
On August 12, Democratic Senators Dick Durbin (Ill.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), and Ed Markey (Mass.) sent letters to dozens of edtech companies and…
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Researchers Were Able to Improve 9th Graders’ GPAs with a 50-Minute Online Course on Growth Mindset
August 12, 2019 Henry Kronk
Education researchers, by definition, tend to spend their time trying to figure out how to get students to learn more effectively, demonstrate better…
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UNH’s Hybrid J.D. Program Is Set to Welcome Its First Cohort
August 12, 2019 Henry Kronk
This week, the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce School of Law will welcome the first cohort to its newly established hybrid J.D.…
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Over 1 in 5 Cybersecurity Threats Targeted Professional Education from April to June: Mimecast Report
August 06, 2019 Henry Kronk
Between April and June of this year, more than 1 in 5 malware attacks tracked by the cybersecurity firm Mimecast targeted the professional…
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