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GSV Adds Three New Letters to Its Portfolio: MBA

Edsurge

Instead, the edtech investment firm is helping to launch a new online MBA program focused on entrepreneurship. Over the years, GSV has invested in the likes of Facebook, Spotify and Twitter alongside education companies including Chegg and Coursera. GSV is making a new investment in education. Its partner?

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Acquisition Autopsy: Details—and Questions—Behind MissionU’s $4M Sale to WeWork

Edsurge

Few, if any, of MissionU’s financial backers publicly celebrated the transaction on Twitter or elsewhere. But reactions to this month’s announcement that MissonU has been bought by WeWork have been lukewarm, if not entirely absent. MissionU ’s end felt as abrupt as its mission was bold. Why sell if there was still that much left in the bank?

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Edtech Industry Magnate Michael Moe Makes a Pivot

Edsurge

Together they have run the ASU GSV Summit , the annual must-go-to event for business leaders and investors in edtech. So you can look at Chegg, which we’re an investor in, which has a $5.5 We invested in Twitter when it was private; in Dropbox, Spotify, Lyft, you know, all-important companies that are in the education-talent space.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. A “ban laptops” op-ed may be the greatest piece of ed-tech clickbait ever devised.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Even more depressing, this look at behavioral modification to do corporations’ bidding offered by Edsurge : “What Do Edtech and IKEA Have in Common? ” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “Education Company Chegg Acknowledges Data Breach , Puts 40 Million Users on Notice.” Persuasive Design.”