The Blend: March ’22
⚡️Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education? Where does curriculum design & student success rank in Web3 edTech?
As startup founder Vriti Saraf predicts in an interview with Rebecca Koenig, “Universities are curators of content,” Saraf says. In the past, she explains, in order to get a Harvard education, “I had to go through Harvard; I couldn’t just go straight to a professor.” But in the future, she predicts, “Harvard could still be curating classes of professors, but it’s not Harvard’s intellectual property.” Read more…
MARCH HIGHLIGHTS 💻
Leaving on a high. Eight months before Udemy went public, its president left to launch a new venture. Modal combines cohort-based learning and enterprise-specific skills in one platform.
Google has created a $100MM Educational Fund for their Career Certificates. Can these branded credentials outperform traditional college degrees? Their courses run about $230 each, far cheaper than other credentials.
According to Nikhil Kaitwade the metaverse is here to stay. Providing an immersive learning experience for users, it may be the curriculum design of such tools that swings back to the forefront for true student success. Read more
Could Learning Experience Platforms take us beyond the short-term COVID solutions we’ve used so far? In a new article from Chief Learning Officer Magazine, they explore how hybrid learning could truly scale up for global companies in both a standardized and personalized way.
What if tech professionals had agents representing them the way celebs do? This startup recently raised $10 million to disrupt how candidates navigate a hot hiring market.
“It’s better to have a 20% share of five markets than 100% of one. Diversity offers security, and monopolies attract legal attention…” Scott Galloway dives into Apple’s trillion dollar growth in this new write up.
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