Edsurge

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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Chegg EdTech Blackboard Company 90

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joseph Ching, a junior at Purdue University, says many of his professors have warned students not to use sites like Chegg, where students are posting homework and quiz questions and getting answers from tutors. I reached out to Chegg, and sure enough, business there is booming. Students pay for a subscription of $14.99

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Chegg Study System Social Media 152

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

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. The system turns learning into a game, but competitors say that Duoloingo’s flaw is that it is a solitary system that fails to connect users with actual native speakers.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

That appears to be the hope of officials at the two companies, which have both been trying for years to shift the focus of their businesses from selling print books to shipping software and other online tools, and have recently been experimenting with subscription models. It won’t be that complicated,” he said.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s been about five years since Cengage Learning filed for bankruptcy , stumbling under the weight of shrinking print sales, a rough transition to digital and too much debt. The company reemerged a year later intent on growing its digital offerings and making more strategic acquisitions and partnerships.

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Chegg Pearson Company EdTech 102

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Perhaps this should go under the “surveillance” section below, but as the article references gunshot-detection systems, I’m putting it here. ” Via Education Week : “Security Companies Sell School ‘Hardening’ as Mass-Shooting Solution.” The language learning company has raised $12.5

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