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Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That.

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Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. CLAS.U), a special purpose acquisition company headed by CEO Michael Moe, raised $225 million in its IPO. public market.

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Automated Proctoring Swept In During Pandemic. It’s Likely to Stick Around, Despite Concerns

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Just in the past few months, a law student sued an automated proctoring company , students have complained about their use in student newspaper editorials and professors have compared them to Big Brother. And the pandemic also saw rapid growth of another tech trend : students using websites to cheat on exams.

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Edtech Earnings Roundup: How 2U, Chegg, Instructure and Pluralsight Fared in Q2 2019

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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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Earnings Roundup: How Public Edtech Companies Fared Following the Outbreak

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For instance, education companies that rely on corporate customers may take a hit, as those clients look to cut costs. Many schools, parents and students are realizing that you can’t just press a button and learn.” Chegg The bottom line: Chegg’s first quarter delighted investors. at Tuesday’s close. What’s ahead?

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Codecademy, an Early (and Now Profitable) Pioneer of Coding Education, Raises $40M in New Funding

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Founded in 2011, the New York-based company has built a hugely popular training platform that has helped millions of students learn to code over the last decade. But the New York-based company had already served 45 million students in more than 190 countries before the pandemic hit. “We A sample project in Codecademy.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

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Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space. This led higher education textbook publishers to shift towards digital publishing , albeit reluctantly as they learned that digital is the only way forward. Switch to Digital Publishing: There’s no escaping the digital revolution.

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