Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2022

While they’re both ostensibly working to make education as strong as possible, educators and edtech don’t always see eye to eye. Observers of the space, for instance, have long noted that teachers are often excluded from edtech procurement , as are higher ed faculty and staff. The companies note that they forbid cheating.)

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MAY 16, 2018

Chegg announced today that it bought the Berkeley-based startup for about $15 million in an all-cash transaction. They started the company to solve a challenge that they both knew well: how to provide fast and actionable feedback to writing students. Even so, Ramirez described the edtech environment as “extremely challenging.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Money has flowed into the edtech sector over the last twelve months. Unlike other edtech startups seemingly on the fast track to big checks, Codecademy has been in the business for over a decade. But the New York-based company had already served 45 million students in more than 190 countries before the pandemic hit. “We

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. According to our tally, there were 58 U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

At the SF Edtech Meetup, hosted by EdSurge on July 10, four panelists gathered to discuss the challenges around deploying machine learning in the classroom and the boardroom. The Data Problem What makes machine learning work is data—but that data can be biased in problematic ways that can lead to misleading and disturbing outcomes.

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MAY 13, 2020

Instead, the edtech investment firm is helping to launch a new online MBA program focused on entrepreneurship. If we do this right, not only should GSV have a strategy in investing in these companies, we hope other investors see the value of the students coming out of there and are attracted to it as well,” Moe says. Its partner?

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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. The winner of the LMS market would be the company with the most widely adopted platform.

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