Over the past few years, every new day has seemed to bring news of another higher-education technology start-up company promising to change the world. According to the National Venture Capital Association, investment in education technology jumped from $100-million in 2007 to nearly $400-million last year. On Easter weekend earlier this year, I flew to Silicon Valley to find out what was going on. The result was a long article in Washington Monthly, called “The Siege of Academe.” (You can read it here.)
I had known some of the reasons for the start-up boom before arriving in California. The world has changed since the first wave of ed-tech start-ups went belly-up in the dot-com bust. Educational tools have become more sophisticated; computing power is cheaper; broadband access and mobile technology have spread.
To read the full, original article click on this link: The Evolution of Ed Tech in Silicon Valley - The Conversation - The Chronicle of Higher Education
