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Platzi Raises $6 Million to Bring More Online Education to Latin America

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Founded in 2013, their company, Platzi , offers Spanish- and Portugese-language live-streamed classes for courses that include programming, marketing, design and business. The platform has served one million students to date, and the company claims course completion rates hover between 50 and 70 percent. Platzi has raised $8.3

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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I enrolled in my first online course in 1998—an awful Frankenstein of assignments and web-based textbook chapters—and never finished it. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 Of course these recent corrections aren’t unique to the education market. Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) is down 47.1 Duolingo (NASDAQ: DUOL) is down 42.0

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

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At the recent ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, EdSurge caught up with Cengage CEO Michael Hansen to capture his thoughts about the (un)affordability of course materials, faculty concerns about digital texts and what the company is looking for in its next acquisition. We have coverage for more than 99 percent of those courses.

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