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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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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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billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. million in the three months ended March 31, 2021, representing 97% period-over-period growth. In the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2021, we had net losses of $2.2 million and $15.8

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. Via Campus Technology : “Report: VR and AR to Double Each Year Through 2021.” ” Holy s**t. “There are 2.4