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More Big Bucks for Tutoring Companies: Varsity Tutors Raises $50M in Series C Funding

Edsurge

Among the goals of the fundraise is to add more topics and experts available for its instant tutoring mobile app, which promises to match a learner with an expert within 15 seconds. That feature is a far evolution from the company’s humble beginnings in Washington University, where Cohn started the business as a student in 2007.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

The State appropriations per full-time student have fallen from an inflation-adjusted $8,489 in 2007 to $7,642 in 2017. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. Kitaboo is a cloud-based content platform to create-publish-distribute interactive mobile-ready content.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Wall Street Journal predicts “The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice.” I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. .” “‘Schoolifying’ Minecraft Without Ruining It” by NPR’s Anya Kamenetz.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. Although YouTube was founded in 2005, it has seen an explosion in growth this decade, in part from the ubiquity of mobile devices: anytime, anywhere television-watching.

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