All posts by Henry Kronk
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Cengage and McGraw-Hill Enter into All-Stock Merger Agreement
May 01, 2019 Henry Kronk
On May 1st, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage, two of the world’s largest educational publishers and learning sciences companies, announced plans to merge. The…
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Should Online Learning Be a Requirement for High School Graduation?
April 29, 2019 Henry Kronk
Ontario’s Progressive Conservative Party headed by Doug Ford recently put forward plans for an online learning initiative. The Canadian province proposed sweeping ed…
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Wei Zhou, Founding Partner at China Creation Ventures, Believes AI-Based Online Education Has Reached Its 2.0 Moment
April 29, 2019 Henry Kronk
In the U.S., the use of AI for adaptive learning programs in primary and secondary education raise concerns about screen time and data…
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IBM Is Working with FIT to Teach AI to Fashion Students
April 27, 2019 Henry Kronk
Artificial Intelligence technology today is finding uses across industries and sectors—even fashion. On April 23, IBM announced a new collaboration with the Fashion…
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Does Online Learning Improve Equity in Education? And What Does that Even Mean?
April 26, 2019 Henry Kronk
There are two lines that education stakeholders like to throw around when speaking about online education. They form two sides of the same…
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Learning Alliance and Regatta VR CEO Bill West Discusses Emerging Corporate Training Solutions and His 30-Year Career in EdTech
April 25, 2019 Henry Kronk
Bill West has been involved in edtech for over 30 years. After graduating with a computer science degree from Indiana University Bloomington in…
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LMS Developer NorthPass Takes in $4 Million Series A from Edison Partners
April 24, 2019 Henry Kronk
Northpass, a corporate-facing learning management system (LMS) developer announced on April 24 it had secured $4 million in Series A funding from Edison…
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At Portland State University, Educators Have Learned not to Overlook UX Design with Personalized Learning
April 23, 2019 Henry Kronk
Earlier this month at the OLC Innovate Conference, members of PSU Office of Academic Innovation (UX Designer Kari Goin, Executive Director Johannes De…
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How Can Universities Convert Prospective Student Search Behavior into Enrollments?
April 19, 2019 Henry Kronk
Data is the new oil—or at least an increasingly valuable commodity that has apparently infinite reserves. Meanwhile many smaller and mid-size institutions of…
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Learnship Acquires GlobalEnglish to Scale Corporate Language Learning Operations
April 17, 2019 Henry Kronk
Learnship, a corporate language instruction provider, announced on April 17th it had acquired GlobalEnglish, another operator in the sector. Details of the deal…
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