Adaptive Curriculum

educationdive | May 14, 2020

Tuition benefit programs aren't new, but several high-profile examples have made headlines in the last few years as indicators that companies are changing how they use education support. Beyond attracting workers, these programs are designed to retain them and help employers expand and diversify their talent pipelines.This is particularly true in the retail and food service sectors, where competition for frontline workers was fierce in a strong economy and job-hopping was common. Such progra...

Corporate Education and Training

Cengage Group | February 01, 2022

Cengage Group, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, entered into an agreement to acquire Infosec, a leading cybersecurity education provider, for $190.8 million. With this acquisition, Cengage Group will expand into the cybersecurity professional training market and meaningfully increase the size of its rapidly growing Workforce Skills business. The transaction is expected to close in the first calendar quarter of 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary clos...

Edtech | May 18, 2020

For companies that target teachers, this is a good time to do some contingency planning as well—to be ready to assist educators. Educators will spend a good amount of time learning something new if it has a clear and measurable reward, The usual rewards ...

edsurge | February 14, 2020

In 2015, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) had just embarked on its first research project to understand the attitudes, perceptions and beliefs of likely voters about early childhood education, and specifically the role of early childhood educators. As part of the project, we conducted a series of focus groups with current educators and individuals interested in entering the field. Sitting behind a two-way mirror during one of these focus groups, I observed our...