Remove Chegg Remove Company Remove System Remove Trends
article thumbnail

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

Edsurge

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.

Chegg 171
article thumbnail

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

Edsurge

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

Chegg 88
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Post-Pandemic Outlook for Edtech

Edsurge

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.

EdTech 182
article thumbnail

Byju’s Becomes an Edtech ‘Decacorn’ After Fundraise from Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital

Edsurge

That’s the industry lingo for companies valued at $10 billion or more. It’s an ultra-exclusive club of two dozen companies across the world, according to CB Insights. Byju’s is the newest member—thanks to an investment from technology investment firm Bond, which values the company at $10.5

EdTech 126
article thumbnail

In Move to ‘Unlimited’ Pricing Model, Cengage Hopes for a Comeback

Edsurge

The company reemerged a year later intent on growing its digital offerings and making more strategic acquisitions and partnerships. Over the last 10 years or so, the majority of the acquisition activity for smaller edtech startups came from the big textbook companies. Chegg provides, amongst other things, tutoring services.

Chegg 97
article thumbnail

To Save Its Campus Bookstore, This University Took It Online

Edsurge

We know that college students’ tastes for digital services have the power to make companies snap to attention. It’s also integrated into the university’s payment system, allowing users to charge books to their student account. “If But what about campus bookstores, which are often tied more intimately to colleges? Kaji says. “It

OER 158
article thumbnail

Edtech Industry Magnate Michael Moe Makes a Pivot

Edsurge

But that grew into the 25-year passion for me, both professionally and personally, around re-imagining the education system and how you provided people equal access to the education they need to thrive. An analogy that I made early on was comparing the education system to the healthcare system. public market cap companies.