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

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That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) Moe is best known as the co-founder of GSV, a constellation of investment, advisory, banking and educational services that’s backed some of the biggest names in the tech industry, including Facebook. Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. public market.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. ” “The Culture Wars Have Come to Silicon Valley,” The New York Times pronounces , with a look at internal tussles between Facebook board members Peter Thiel and Reed Hastings. I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. “ Learning Engineers Inch Toward the Spotlight,” Inside Higher Ed claims. ” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. Watch and see).

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” Via The Richmond Times-Dispatch : “ Police seeking Facebook release of Virginia Tech instructor’s activity.” And in Edsurge, Amber Oliver and Michael Horn write , “Without the Right Curriculum , Personalized Learning Is Just Another Fad.” Chegg has acquired Cogeon for $15 million.

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Via Techcrunch : “ Facebook is shutting down Hello, Moves and the anonymous teen app tbh due to ‘low usage’ ” The Have You Heard podcast on Theranos : “What the Sordid Saga of a Silicon Valley Start-Up Tells Us About # EdReform.” Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8 million total.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president.

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