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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. started as a publishing category, where people would pay small amounts of money for books or CDs to learn a language. billion, making its total valuation more than $4.7

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The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

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The sudden shift gave leaders at DreamBox Learning, a math education company headquartered nearby, an early glimpse at the upheaval to come and an inkling that digital teaching tools would soon be in high demand around the country. That strained the company, but it also notched DreamBox record levels of renewals.

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Best Second Jobs for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Chegg Tutors : Chegg is a popular platform that connects students to tutors in a wide range of subjects. Examples of the types of freelance writing and editing work a teacher might do include educational content writing, academic writing and proofreading, book editing, among others.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

Kitaboo on EdTech

A lot of big names in the publishing industry have had to restructure business operations due to the decreasing number of print book sales. Switching over to digital publishing will also reduce the loss from unsold books. Today, a lot of companies offer subscription-based services.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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.

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