Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 All she had to do was fill out a faculty profile, and she happily answered questions about how she had used the service and did an interview for an article on the company’s website.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. Used books present an anathema for textbook publishers, which don’t see any revenue from their sale. By contrast, digital materials have no resale value.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 158

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

Universal online testing has created a documented increase in cheating, often because universities, colleges and testing companies were unprepared for the scale of the transformation or unable or unwilling to pay for safeguards, according to faculty and testing experts. And for most online test-takers, no one has been watching.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Five people presented. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Young: Thank you.

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Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

Via NPR : “‘Access to Literacy ’ Is Not a Constitutional Right , Judge in Detroit Rules.” Via The Wall Street Journal : “ California plans to sue one of the nation’s largest student loan companies.” Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8 24 Kindergarten Classes.

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Education Pearson MOOC Chegg 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in. Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage this week, knocking many education companies who use AWS offline.

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40