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  • EdSurge
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Past articles by Ryan:

Amazon's New Model For Higher Education And Workforce Development

While modest reductions in friction for frontline employees may have been acceptable in less perilous times, 2020 calls for dramatic innovation. Like everything else this Christmas, that innovation is being delivered by Amazon. → Read More

R.B.G. And The Future Of Higher Education

Stating that higher education is not principally (or at all) a private good is ludicrous. R.B.G.’s opinion in VMI is about ensuring that the “unique education benefits” are made available not to some amorphous collective, but to specific individuals who meet admissions standards. → Read More

What Students Are Doing Is Remote Learning, Not Online Learning. There’s a Difference.

Having worked at the intersection of education and technology for over 20 years, I never would have predicted that the first excitement at home over ... → Read More

The new marketplaces connecting school and work –

Evidence continues to roll in that American workers are out of position for the high-value jobs of today and tomorrow. What are America’s colleges and universities doing to solve the problem? → Read More

Last-mile training and the future of work in an expanding gig economy –

Ryan Craig Contributor Ryan Craig is managing director of University Ventures. More posts by this contributor Existential education error: Failing to train students on software Facebook is going back to college The future of work is so uncertain that perhaps the only possible job security exists for the person who can credibly claim to be […] → Read More

eSports: College's Newest Abdication Of Responsibility

America’s colleges and universities have an obligation to resist the siren song of entertainment and videogames; they must be more than a mirror of bad parenting. It may mean losing a few students to the irresponsible school down the road. But it will mean stronger student outcomes. → Read More

Existential education error: Failing to train students on software

Although many of the milestones of the digital revolution have sprung directly from the research output of America’s colleges and universities, on the instructional side, American higher education has taken a laid-back approach. → Read More

The Flipped Hiring Revolution

One of the most American moments in American literature comes in “Huckleberry Finn,” when Huck fakes his own death to make a clean break from an ... → Read More

Coming Soon: The Theranos Of Higher Education

Colleges and universities are not immune to Theranos-like systematic deception. If trustees aren’t sufficiently educated, informed and alert, they’ll probably perform as well as the Theranos board and find their school’s precious, pernicious ranking reduced to zero. → Read More

Facebook is going back to college

Ryan Craig Contributor Ryan Craig is managing director of University Ventures. More posts by this contributor Broadening education investments to full-stack solutions College for the 21st century → Read More

International Students Are Key To Continued American Economic Leadership

It seems implausible that hundreds of thousands of Chinese students won’t change their vector of study. The upshot could be a 20-30% decline in international student enrollment for 2019-20. The more fundamental result could be a kneecapping of American competitiveness for a generation. → Read More

Artificial Intelligence: Hero Or Villain For Higher Education?

AI adds software and data to work and yields a multidisciplinarity that will resonate across every profession and every area of study. Colleges and universities that opt to remain on the periphery – regardless of how much they claim to foster core cognitive or creative skills – are likely to wither. → Read More

Broadening education investments to full-stack solutions

Ryan Craig Contributor Ryan Craig is managing director of University Ventures. More posts by this contributor College for the 21st century Hiring has gone Hollywood As an education investor, one of my favorite sayings is that education is the next industry to be disrupted by technology, and has been for the past twenty years. When […] → Read More

The Real Cruelty Of College Admissions

College admissions is cruel. Not because a bunch of privileged kids got waitlisted at Penn. But because K-12 schools continue to measure themselves too much by college admissions. → Read More

The Next Stop In Outsourcing: Entry-Level Hiring

There’s no need to look at how other countries run apprenticeships. America leads the world in outsourcing. By outsourcing entry-level hiring, American companies can pioneer a uniquely American model for apprenticeships: outsourced apprenticeships. → Read More

How Blockchain Can Truly Revolutionize Higher Education

Blockchain-based credentials have the potential to free government to finance higher education in a manner fit for a digital age, and in so doing eliminate student loan debt and provide true free college. → Read More

College for the 21st century

College has changed in the last 25 years. For one, we have an urgent crisis of affordability. College graduates also are facing a crisis of employability. The.. → Read More

Hiring has gone Hollywood

The top of the hiring funnel has gotten very crowded. We’ve always had recruiters or headhunters for top executives. They’re also commonly used in many.. → Read More

Education technology meets its limits

Developing skills-based online courses and credentials is the easy part. The hard part is getting employers to pay attention. → Read More

With emerging last-mile training programs, is college necessary?

Last-mile training is the combination of technical education and placement services that has the potential to fill the skills gap across many sectors of the.. → Read More