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NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Just in the past few months, a law student sued an automated proctoring company , students have complained about their use in student newspaper editorials and professors have compared them to Big Brother. We’re publishing a series about how pandemic-era practices are continuing to shape higher education.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

The latest quarterly earnings for publicly traded education technology companies was especially rough for 2U , which revised its loss guidance for the year and stated that it expected enrollment challenges to its core business of running online graduate programs with universities. based company tumbling to historic lows. (It

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APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. put $150 million in Hero K12 , and Bain Capital, whose Double Impact Fund is on the hunt for promising (and lucrative) education teams. Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach.

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MAY 2, 2017

To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. Here are some lessons I learned about what makes the higher education market unique.

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JUNE 17, 2017

If you go to startup pitch events, you’ve seen it happen: An entrepreneur says something—something so naïve, egregious and hackneyed—that it makes the investors, along with educators who are now increasingly in the audience, physically cringe. Do you know what company is “Facebook for country X?” Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)?

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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