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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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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

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” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). OpenClassrooms , a French MOOC provider according to Techcrunch, has raised $60 million from Bpifrance, General Atlantic, Alven Capital, and Citizen Capital. Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. Uber for Education". “We

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