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Giving Credibility to the Shadow Education System

March 15, 2011 • 2:23 pm 0

2Tor Raises $32.5 Million to Foster Asynchronous Education Systems

This post contains information from an interview with John Katzman today.

There was a TechCrunch story out today about John Katzman’s 2Tor.com business. They just finished Round C of venture funding with all of their partners and took in $32.5 million to “flip” the education model. The TC article was informative, but I think it overlooked or didn’t explain acccurately what Katzman is trying to do.

I called him up and just asked him to elaborate.

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March 15, 2011 • 12:55 pm 0

The Future Schools

An interesting blog post up at Education Next today.

Jonathan Schorr and Deborah McGriff give a review of some of the great blended school models put in place across the country.

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March 15, 2011 • 9:17 am 2

Ted Fujimoto: Founder, Right to Succeed

Your Reputation Creates the Way You Will Learn — A Social Media Project that Tests the Reputation Graph

Credit to Jon Bischke who has really been the vanguard in reputation graph thinking. This series is dedicated to him.

Here’s one of the first interviews we’ve received in a social media project to track what people think about education and their careers. Your reputation online will model your ability to learn and to teach others, as people turn increasingly to the online space for their information, social networking and education. So, let’s get to know the people who will teach each other.

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