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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2021

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The year 2021 pushed us all to learn new lessons in unexpected ways, from deciphering public health statistics about vaccines and masks to refreshing our memory for the Greek alphabet thanks to emerging COVID-19 variants. Below is a countdown of the top 10 articles of 2021 as voted by reader interest. Top 10 Countdown 10. By Jeffrey R.

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Chegg Ditches Ingram for FedEx and Eyes International Growth

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Back in 2014, more competition from Amazon had led the Santa Clara, Calif-based Chegg to a deal with book distributor Ingram Content Group. Ingram bought Chegg’s textbook inventory to sell and distribute, and the companies shared the revenues. The Ingram deal was framed as part of Chegg’s strategy to 100 percent digital revenue.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. Our own venture capital firm, New Markets Venture Partners, rode these tailwinds ourselves, successfully selling four companies in Q4 2021 and Q1 2022 at generous valuations. billion in mid-October, 2021, to $62.8 percent since going public in October 2021 at $29/share.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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As a string of online-education companies have gone public, including Chegg, Coursera, Kahoot and others, it seems that investors have decided that there’s enough public interest in digital learning, and they want in. million in the three months ended March 31, 2021, representing 97% period-over-period growth. million and $15.8

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Course Hero Quietly Took Over Hosting Lumen’s OER Content. They Say It’s No Big Deal

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In 2021, Lumen says, its online course materials drew in 350 million page views. But there’s another problem: Course Hero’s domain—like other companies such as Chegg—is blocked by the content filtering of some districts. Who’s Using the Content? For Lumen, the decision to hand off the content was because of who’s using it.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. Via Campus Technology : “Report: VR and AR to Double Each Year Through 2021.” Impero Software has been acquired by Investment Technology Partners which paid $36.3 Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. .” “There are 2.4