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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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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. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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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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Why Your Financial Advisor Doesn’t Recommend Edtech Stocks

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I’m excited for the industry’s future, and I think we can make money investing in publicly-traded edtech companies. I think you’re wrong, so I propose a bet: We’ll both invest in a basket of stocks on January 1, 2012—mine representing the edtech industry, and yours the whole economy. Our Basket of Edtech Stocks: 2U.

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Look Who’s Talking—Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution on AI in education

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Current areas of inquiry include artificial intelligence in education, the use of digital educational credentials and, more broadly, emerging edtech policies, initiatives, and institutions after the pandemic. I mean, I get, you know, pitch decks from companies. In the spirit of the keynote, here’s what Chat GPT4.0 00:02:57 Yeah.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

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For example, students graduating with a computer science degree might not know to code in real life. Companies like Chegg, eFollett, and BookRenter are offering new textbooks on rent for less than the price of a used book. Today, a lot of companies offer subscription-based services.

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Course Hero Quietly Took Over Hosting Lumen’s OER Content. They Say It’s No Big Deal

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the edtech “unicorn” and homework help site. Web traffic like that incurs hosting and supporting costs which can look unappetizing when the company paying them doesn’t feel it’s supporting their main mission. Handing off hosting of the content, the company says, will allow it to focus on its own original courseware. History II.

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Edtech Industry Magnate Michael Moe Makes a Pivot

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Together they have run the ASU GSV Summit , the annual must-go-to event for business leaders and investors in edtech. In the global marketplace and growth economy, your education and your knowledge makes the difference, not only for an individual but for a company and, for that matter, a country. public market cap companies.