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A Siri for Higher Ed Aims to Boost Student Engagement

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Called Differ, the LMS is a product of Edtech Foundry , an Oslo-based tech company that works with universities. Nilsen says he and his team were searching for a new LMS in 2014 and weren’t satisfied with existing options. CourseQ lets students send inquiries via SMS message to a chatbot that responds to common questions.

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Game-Based Learning Gains Steam in Higher Education: Triseum Raises $1.43 Million to Transform Educational Experiences for Students

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New investment into Triseum continues to provide growth opportunities for a company already breaking barriers with over 40 percent of its staff being female. Triseum has grown to over thirty staff, incorporating former Texas A&M University students, professors and leading experts in game development from around the country.

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PROOF POINTS: Two studies find scattergrams reduce applications to elite colleges

The Hechinger Report

To help with that decision, schools across the country have paid many millions to private companies that display data on the fate of past students. But two recent studies have found that this information could discourage students who might have a shot at the most elite schools. That is incredibly common.”

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Nepris Raises $5 Million Series A Round to Bring Field Trips to the Classroom

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Founded in 2014, the company has amassed a network of 70,000 educators and 31,000 industry professionals, all with the goal of showing different career paths to students as early as kindergarten. The Plano, Texas-based company can also count some more investors as part of its network. Kids don’t know what’s out there.”

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School’s Out for Summer. For AT&T’s Latest Edtech Cohort, Classes Have Just Begun

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A platform for students to create and run revenue-earning companies. A service for 24-hour tutoring for underserved high-school students. These are three of the eight companies in the fifth and latest class entering the AT&T Aspire Accelerator , now in its fifth year of operation. At least one—Earshot—has folded.

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PROOF POINTS: The life of an online tutor can resemble that of an assembly line worker

The Hechinger Report

Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. Keeping track of students’ questions and chatting with them in real time can feel more like being a short-order cook during the breakfast rush than an educator. At least his commute to work is great. The pace is grueling.

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Online Degrees Find a Spot in Workspaces in 2U-WeWork Deal

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2U said yesterday that it had formed a partnership with shared workspace company, WeWork. Any of the 13,000 students enrolled in the graduate degree programs that 2U hosts will be able to use the WeWork offices for free. This is definitely a win-win,” Paucek says about the partnership between his company, based in Lanham, Md.,

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