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Here are the top 10 for-profit colleges in the U.S.

University Business

Factoring into the rankings are faculty resources, student enrollment and retainment, school reputation, and spending per student on instruction, to name but a few. These were named the top 10 for-profit schools: College Average Rank across different websites Annual fee 10. Sullivan University 27 $13,500 8.

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Coursera is Evolving into a Third-Wave EdTech Company

eLiterate

We often use the term “platform” in tech conversations to narrowly mean the features and architecture of a kind of software. The Coursera platform, writ large , connects universities, learners, government agencies, megacorporations, and local employers. It’s not like Coke and Pepsi. Multi-sided platforms have unusual characteristics.

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EdTech Malaise: “He Not Busy Born is Busy Dying”

eLiterate

Despite all of the complaints about how bad textbooks are and how clueless these companies are, the relationship between textbook publishers and faculty is unusually intimate. You can fairly accuse the textbook publishers of many different faults and sins, but not taking faculty input seriously isn’t one of them.