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9 Good Online Math Tutoring Websites for Kids and Students

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Access to online learning materials helps students manage their work/study schedules more effectively. Chegg Chegg is a website and app where students can access a wide range of resources. Chegg instructors are well-versed in fundamental math principles and are always one step ahead of their learners.

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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. Since Codecademy launched in 2011, the learn-to-code industry has spawned dozens, if not hundreds of coding bootcamps, apps and other competitors.

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Many of the investors are new to the industry, Brothers notes. There’s a lot of private capital around the world that has a new appreciation for this industry.” For general investors, edtech wasn’t sexy and it wasn’t mainstream. Coronavirus really changed that.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

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billion, according to the Software & Industry Information Association. Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. From 2011 to 2014, U.S.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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It’s got an effective mobile app that really changes the context in how people access language, a critical mass in consumer interest in learning applications and since the pandemic hit, it put edtech into the minds of investors as a real investable category,” says Trace Urdan, an edtech analyst and managing director at Tyton Partners.

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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. The textbook cost $150, and the access code for the accompanying digital system was another $100.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

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Big names in the publishing industry like Cengage and Pearsons have already moved to digital publishing and have built their loyal customer base. A lot of big names in the publishing industry have had to restructure business operations due to the decreasing number of print book sales.

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