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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

The technologies built by these companies span a wide gamut of buzzwords (adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, gamification) but will be integrated with TAL’s online offerings. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. TAL has already directly funded a handful of U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.)

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