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The Pandemic Is Changing How Colleges Offer Tutoring. Will Students Use It?

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We were just going through what I thought in my brain, where we wanted to place that on the schedule, and just hoped that students [then] had access to chemistry tutoring.” Those for-profit sites, which charge students monthly subscription fees for access, claim to fill in a gap in academic assistance that they say colleges fail to provide.

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Codecademy, an Early (and Now Profitable) Pioneer of Coding Education, Raises $40M in New Funding

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COVID-19 certainly drove a surge in the number of people accessing its platform, attracting five million new users, 150,000 new paying subscribers and a growing number of business partners. Investors from these previous rounds include Flybridge Capital Partners, Index Ventures, Alexis Ohanian and Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group. “We

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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Everyone that has a direct-to-student outreach is reporting a huge growth,” says Paul Freedman, CEO and co-founder of Entangled Group, an education consulting firm that was recently acquired by another edtech unicorn , Guild Education. Consumer edtech, then, may be where the market is hottest moving forward. billion in venture capital.

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How Merger of Two Textbook Giants Could Impact Course Materials

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McGraw-Hill calls the approach “Inclusive Access,” and stresses that research shows that students who have course materials from day one of a class do better than those who put off or skip getting them altogether. Her group recently produced a landscape analysis of scholarly and textbook publishing laying out its broader critique.

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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Cheating on Chegg? It’s no surprise that students would ask for help on platforms like Chegg, which offer digital textbooks as well as tutoring and homework help. But these massive open online courses still continue to shape the way people around the world learn and access education. The “Year of the MOOC” is long behind us.

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Gig’s Up: CreatorUp Raises $1 Million to Train and Match Creative Professionals for Work

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To support that effort, the startup has raised $1 million in a seed round from a group of investors that include Metallavon VC, an early-stage investment fund based in Greece, and LearnStart, the seed fund affiliated with edtech investment firm Learn Capital.

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Best Vocabulary Apps for Students

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These apps offer innovative, interactive, and personalized ways to expand vocabulary, catering to various age groups and educational needs. The inclusion of offline access is a significant advantage, ensuring that learning is uninterrupted even in the absence of an internet connection.

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