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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

Edsurge

If you go to startup pitch events, you’ve seen it happen: An entrepreneur says something—something so naïve, egregious and hackneyed—that it makes the investors, along with educators who are now increasingly in the audience, physically cringe. Student engagement and retention mobile apps. Yet another student book exchange.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

It’s now become a way in which educational events, organizations, and institutions dole out funding for projects. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. The TED Talk. He was right.

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