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Some Professors Fight Study-Help Sites. Other Professors Now Use Them.

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Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 All she had to do was fill out a faculty profile, and she happily answered questions about how she had used the service and did an interview for an article on the company’s website. per month, or $119.40

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GSV Adds Three New Letters to Its Portfolio: MBA

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GSV is making a new investment in education. 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. But this time, it’s not pouring money into a startup or a conference. Its partner?

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Acquisition Autopsy: Details—and Questions—Behind MissionU’s $4M Sale to WeWork

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Few, if any, of MissionU’s financial backers publicly celebrated the transaction on Twitter or elsewhere. Two years ago, the “college-alternative” company launched to glowing coverage on TV shows, raised $11.5 Fast Company, which broke the story , reported that the acquisition was an all-stock deal.

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The 2018 EdSurde Annual Special: Surgecoin, EduWands and Other News Not Fit for Print

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But some companies are jumping the gun. Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. Financial terms were not disclosed, although the entire education operating system was reset as a result of the transaction.

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Edtech Industry Magnate Michael Moe Makes a Pivot

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Over the past decade, Michael Moe and his business partner, Deborah Quazzo, have been central players in building the education technology economy. A decade ago, Moe had two galvanizing ideas—one focused on investment opportunities and one on education. EdSurge: What started you thinking about education as a place to invest?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the massive review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” Immigration and Education.