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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. So now is the perfect time to reflect on the state of edtech. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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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. Chegg now has about $1.1 at close of Aug. What’s next?

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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. He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. edtech startups raised $2.2

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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It’s got an effective mobile app that really changes the context in how people access language, a critical mass in consumer interest in learning applications and since the pandemic hit, it put edtech into the minds of investors as a real investable category,” says Trace Urdan, an edtech analyst and managing director at Tyton Partners.

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Course Hero Adds $70 Million to Series B Fundraise

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Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year. edtech companies raised over $800 million in the first half of 2020. According to the EdSurge database, U.S. Since the pandemic, Grauer says the number of questions asked on its platform has tripled.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

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This has led to higher education textbook publishers facing the brunt as that’s the only area where students and institutes can reduce their spends, by opting for digital textbooks instead. Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space.

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

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Over the last 10 years or so, the majority of the acquisition activity for smaller edtech startups came from the big textbook companies. But now that we have built an ecosystem of millions of subscribers, it is much easier to filter out which edtech startups actually add value to that ecosystem. I think Chegg is doing well in that.

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