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

Edsurge

That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. In the next 24 months, you’re going to see more public companies in the digital learning space,” Moe predicts. public market.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

Kitaboo on EdTech

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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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “Education Company Chegg Acknowledges Data Breach , Puts 40 Million Users on Notice.” ” Via Edsurge : “Only 28% of Districts Have Enough Bandwidth to Use Digital Learning Every Day.”