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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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The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. 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

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

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It’s been about five years since Cengage Learning filed for bankruptcy , stumbling under the weight of shrinking print sales, a rough transition to digital and too much debt. Faculty have asked us over the years whether we care about the cost of learning materials. How are you characterizing a ‘vastly superior’ proposition?

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