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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 We wouldn’t be surprised if 2U or Chegg were taken private in the next year, since both companies have strong fundamentals and exceptional human capital. In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” ECOT is the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow, a failed online charter school. Via NPR : “Before They Walk Into A Classroom, These New Teachers Will March On The N.C. Via The New York Times : “ Assassin’s Creed Has a New Mission: Working in the Classroom.” ” Labor and Management.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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