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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Credly, for example, was acquired for $200 million in January 2022, which represented a valuation multiple of 15.1x Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 We wouldn’t be surprised if 2U or Chegg were taken private in the next year, since both companies have strong fundamentals and exceptional human capital. LTM revenue.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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So, for example, a lot of teachers love to use Quizlet, which is a great company — they build these really complicated quizzes, really interesting stuff, and you can just take those and bring them right into the Versal course. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. Freund: It can get quite sophisticated.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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I’d cite a few examples of this approach but, as you can imagine, startups who take this approach rarely get off the ground and those who do don’t last long. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Parent communications platforms. There are already several well-capitalized startups (including.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 .” Via Reuters : “Some U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Look at former Harvard President Drew Faust , for example! Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8 .” Via Edsurge : “Why Purdue Professors Continue to Protest Purdue’s Purchase of a For-Profit U.” ” Labor and Management.