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9 Good Online Math Tutoring Websites for Kids and Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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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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. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry. And Urdan says Duolingo brought a mobile-first approach to the sector.

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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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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

Kitaboo on EdTech

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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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. Cengage recently introduced a new subscription model that gives students access to all of the company’s digital course materials for a semester or an year. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” The Wall Street Journal predicts “The End of Typing: The Next Billion Mobile Users Will Rely on Video and Voice.” Tinkergarten has raised $5.4

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training.

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