Special K: Don’t sleep on Khan Academy, Knewton
Listening to Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, speak on stage to several hundred attendees at the 5th Anniversary Gala last week for Innosight Institute—the non-profit that I co-founded—I […]
Listening to Sal Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, speak on stage to several hundred attendees at the 5th Anniversary Gala last week for Innosight Institute—the non-profit that I co-founded—I […]
Mar 21, 2013
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, California Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg introduced Senate Bill 520, a piece of legislation that would enable students enrolled […]
Mar 14, 2013
“The technology is five years behind where it needs to be.” It was the complaint of yet another school trying to build a blended-learning model […]
Nov 8, 2012
Yesterday I, along with my colleague, Innosight Institute Education research assistant Charity Eyre, authored an op-ed titled “State has virtually no reason to not give […]
July 12, 2012
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation put two stakes in the ground yesterday in support of next-generation digital learning: one in the postsecondary school space […]
June 20, 2012
The ASU Skysong Education Innovation Summit has become the can’t-miss education innovation event of the year in just the three years since it was founded—and […]
Apr 19, 2012
Many of my friends in the education world are fond of talking about how the University of Phoenix is not in fact a disruptive innovation. […]
Apr 12, 2012
An article on Yahoo! News caught my eye a little while back because of what it says about the potential—and perhaps likelihood—of India leapfrogging the […]
Feb 22, 2012
One would expect a book by the CEO of a for-profit university to mount a vigorous defense of the much-maligned for-profit higher education sector. But […]
Jan 24, 2012
The Fordham Institute continued its critical series exploring how to create sound policy for digital learning in November with two new papers, “Teachers in the […]
Jan 9, 2012