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9 Good Online Math Tutoring Websites for Kids and Students

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In the teaching process, these experts rely on tried-and-true techniques like worksheets and practical exercises. Chegg Chegg is a website and app where students can access a wide range of resources. Chegg instructors are well-versed in fundamental math principles and are always one step ahead of their learners.

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Codecademy, an Early (and Now Profitable) Pioneer of Coding Education, Raises $40M in New Funding

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Through regular exercises, assessments and certificates, the Business platform allows students to learn new skills and update employers with their coding progress. Codecademy hired its first chief financial officer last November: former Chegg executive and general manager Adam Goldman. Chegg went public in 2013.

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Duolingo IPO Shows Investors Think Edtech Is Still Growing.

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As a string of online-education companies have gone public, including Chegg, Coursera, Kahoot and others, it seems that investors have decided that there’s enough public interest in digital learning, and they want in. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry.

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That’s a Rap! Nearpod Buys Educational Hip Hop Creator, Flocabulary

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The company also offers reading exercises, quizzes, vocabulary games, and tools that let students write and animate their own videos. Its biggest institutional shareholder is Insight Venture Partners, a private equity firm whose education portfolio also includes Chegg, Instructure and Pluralsight—three companies that have gone public.

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Comparing spaced repetition algorithms

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Similarly, study game apps like Quizlet and DuoLingo have added some intelligent repetition for exercises consistently answered incorrectly, including matching , multiple-choice , and fill-in-the-blank style questions that are interspersed within subsequent units' lessons or activities (even if only in a minimal or rudimentary way).

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Top 80 Apps for Schools

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Different apps provide different language learning experiences — some emphasize speaking while others include reading exercises — so you can customize your language learning experience to best fit your strengths and goals. These apps offer a unique way of learning language that is convenient and engaging.

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To Save Its Campus Bookstore, This University Took It Online

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The Alaska campus’ online bookstore has relieved the university from the complicated exercise of guessing how many physical copies of each book it needed to stock. The campus bookstore was running a deficit in the millions by 2019, he adds, and was looking for a solution.

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