Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8

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EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 186

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

That’s the industry lingo for companies valued at $10 billion or more. Bond was founded by Mary Meeker, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins whose annual “Internet Trends” reports have become a must-read for the technology industry. Education industry analysts say that trend is emerging in the U.S.

EdTech 143

EdTech Chegg Udemy Industry 143

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

For the edtech industry, the pandemic poses a paradox. Many of the investors are new to the industry, Brothers notes. There’s a lot of private capital around the world that has a new appreciation for this industry.” For general investors, edtech wasn’t sexy and it wasn’t mainstream. Coronavirus really changed that.

EdTech 198

EdTech Khan Academy Chegg Coursera 198

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

But not all sectors of the market follow that rule, says Jeff Silber, a managing director at BMO Capital Markets who follows the education industry. Chegg The bottom line: Chegg’s first quarter delighted investors. As such, it is difficult to predict how much, if any, of Chegg's first half momentum will continue.”

Company 120

Company Chegg EdTech Pearson 120

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

billion, according to the Software & Industry Information Association. Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. From 2011 to 2014, U.S.

Chegg 163

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 163

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

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.

EdTech 165

EdTech Chegg Mobility Company 165

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The 34-year-old felt rewarded in his job as a seventh-grade teacher, but he knew that a job in the tech industry would yield more pay plus more time with his wife and his two kids. Tambay sees Springboard growing beyond just tech, saying there’s a need for his services in other industries, like health care.

Pearson 87

Pearson Chegg Microsoft Facebook 87

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

based company’s leadership remained foggy on some aspects of its strategy to survive in an increasingly competitive industry. A fellow publicly traded education technology company, Chegg, has promised low-cost courses with its own bootcamp acquisition, Thinkful. But the Lanham, Md.-based million year over year.

Chegg 66

Chegg Company Course Report 66

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. Returning backers include what Garvey calls “strategics,” the industry parlance for organizations that operate in the same sector. WriteLab (Chegg). To date, Reach Capital has invested roughly $40 million in 42 startups.

Blendspace 68

Blendspace Chegg Technology Education 68

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

I think this sends a message to others in the industry to what the expectation is now. Booksellers who have taken those steps already include Barnes & Noble Education, Chegg, Inc., Ingram Book Group, MBS Textbook Exchange and Valore.

Elsevier 66

Elsevier Chegg Pearson Guidelines 66

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

Big names in the publishing industry like Cengage and Pearsons have already moved to digital publishing and have built their loyal customer base. A lot of big names in the publishing industry have had to restructure business operations due to the decreasing number of print book sales.

Trends 97

Trends eBook Education Industry 97

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

From Formula 1 to Yelp, industries across the board are seeking ways to apply machine learning to their work. These costs are “something that I think a lot of people going into this industry don’t foresee, and which venture capitalists are now just learning how to forecast.” Those predictions proved very , very wrong.)

Chegg 96

Chegg Education Learning Company 96

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

But educators and industry watchers have plenty of questions about the marriage of these long-time rivals, and about what it will mean for professors and students. Hansen mentioned expecting new digital products from competitors such as Chegg, and added, “I would not be surprised if Amazon builds something in this space.”

Course 157

Course Chegg Company Libraries 157

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

short-lived experiment in the coding bootcamp industry ). Home-run bets and financial windfalls are rare in the edtech industry. The biggest exit in the edtech industry—Lynda.com’s $1.5 The new money comes at a time when traditional venture capital firms are taking a breather.

EdTech 106

EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 106

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

A sizable portion of CreatorUp’s clients come from the education industry, including Cengage and Chegg, as well as community colleges and universities. CreatorUp has worked with a diverse range of clients, from the Environmental Defense Fund to Google and the Special Olympics.

Training 69

Training Chegg Company Course 69

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Other textbook distributors, including Chegg, Inc. Counterfeits hurt everyone in the industry, and the solution requires a collaborative industry response. “Follett believes [the best practices] would effectively restrict access to low-cost used and rental course materials on campus,” the statement reads.

Pearson 78

Pearson Chegg Company Industry 78

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 11, 2024

Chegg Tutors : Chegg is a popular platform that connects students to tutors in a wide range of subjects. They might also consider taking some voiceover training courses to learn more about the industry and hone their skills. Here are some reputable platforms where teachers can offer online tutoring services: 1.

Chegg 52

Chegg Video Resources Company 52

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Usually, when a hot startup gets acquired by an even hotter one, the industry cheers. But reactions to this month’s announcement that MissonU has been bought by WeWork have been lukewarm, if not entirely absent. Few, if any, of MissionU’s financial backers publicly celebrated the transaction on Twitter or elsewhere.

Chegg 86

Chegg Company Industry Data 86

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The industry has spawned celebrity millionaires in South Korea. Varsity Tutors is not the only one chasing the tutoring market, which is saturated with traditional, brick-and-mortar competitors like Kumon and Sylvan Learning and online upstarts like Chegg and Wyzant. Tutoring is big business.

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Company Chegg Industry Mobility 77

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

I’m excited for the industry’s future, and I think we can make money investing in publicly-traded edtech companies. You disagree and say that we’re both better off investing across a wider variety of industries. At the end of five years, whoever’s portfolio is worth more will be the winner. Our Basket of Edtech Stocks: 2U. Instructure.

EdTech 60

EdTech Pearson Chegg Company 60

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Publishers resorted to this move with the sole ambition of survival in the publishing industry. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. Related: Can the US Higher Education Publishing Industry Leverage A Subscription Model. Related: Are etextbooks More Affordable Than Textbooks.

Technology 80

Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. CONTROL+ALT+DELETE: In the biggest blockbuster deal that the industry has seen since Prussia was on the map, ControlSchool merged with AltSchool and DeleteSchool.

Chegg 67

Chegg Robotics LMS Android 67

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

00:05:05 Speaker 1 Basic administrative duties that we all have, and no matter what sort of industry that we’re that we’re living and working in, we’re already using it, right. I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this. Teachers are going to lose their jobs when. 00:05:24 Speaker 2 Yeah. 00:05:28 Speaker 1 8.

Education 73

Education EdTech Chegg Technology 73

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2020

Online tests have also meant a booming business for companies that sell homework and test answers, including Chegg and Course Hero. a month, Chegg is offering a new service that provides fast answers to math problems submitted by smartphone camera, step-by-step solution included.

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Chegg ProctorU Education Company 129

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

We as an industry have chosen for a long time to basically ignore that—or have more or less been paying lip service to them. Tell me a little bit about some of your recent partnerships with companies such as Chegg. Chegg provides, amongst other things, tutoring services. I think Chegg is doing well in that.

Chegg 110

Chegg Pearson Company EdTech 110

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

A Most Difficult Game The struggles of Planet3 are not unique to the educational game industry. Among those who tried include Osman Rashid, the co-founder of Chegg and Kno, who launched Galxyz in 2014 to build a science video games for grades three to 12. Magnates from the gaming industry have attempted as well.

Education 83

Education Company Chegg Pearson 83

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Beware Proximity to the Instructional Core In most industries, a pretty smart strategy is to identify the core productive activity of the organization and improve it. Chegg was founded in 2005 and went public eight years later in 2013. The lesson? Work bottom up and top down.

Blackboard 111

Blackboard Company Pearson LMS 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2019

In an interview with EdSurge, Moe reflects on his path that took him on a “25-year passion” in the education industry, and what lies ahead. At the time, healthcare was a large industry—like 8 percent of GDP—but it was a cottage industry and wildly fragmented. It was a cottage industry. Now he’s pivoting to just one.

Industry 91

Industry EdTech Company Chegg 91

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

And we use that particular matching feature to then guide them through those job roles, the industries, and eventually to the employers that find them. And so what we’ll do is kind of track what type of transactions are happening on, say, Chegg, Amazon, and online away from the bookstore. Jones: I’m deeply conflicted here.

E-rate 28

E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. ” Coming soon to a school near you, this via the South China Morning Post : “ China is mining data directly from workers’ brains on an industrial scale.” Selected has raised $1.2 WeWork has acquired MissionU. MissionU will close its doors.

Education 49

Education Company MOOC Report 49

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. Via The New York Times : “More Law Schools Begin Accepting GRE Test Results.”

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Students will have the chance to connect directly with celebrities in one-on-one tutoring sessions through Chegg Tutors: VIP Edition. All tutoring sessions will take place this fall through Chegg’s online tutoring platform, Chegg Tutors. All applications for Chegg Tutors: VIP Edition are due by October 23rd.

Chegg 40

Chegg Company Industry Video 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

” Challenging forced arbitration clauses has been one way the CFPB has taken on the student loan industry. Via Buzzfeed : “A Close Ally Of Mike Pence Is Helping The Shady Student Debt Relief Industry.” Chegg has acquired Cogeon for $15 million. ” The Business of Student Loans.

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MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

. “ Ed Tech Cybersecurity : Suppose they gave a data breach and nobody came,” writes Phil Hill on the Chegg data breach. ” Via The Verge : “Tim Cook warns of ‘ data-industrial complex ’ in call for comprehensive US privacy laws.” ” Research, “Research,” and Reports.

Education 60

Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60

Hack Education

OCTOBER 5, 2018

” Via Techcrunch , which never ceases to amaze me with how readily it acts as a stenographer for the tech industry: “As some pricey coding camps fade away, Codecademy barrels ahead with affordable paid offerings and a new mobile app.” Via Education Dive : “ Subaru to offer applied sciences associate degree.”

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Education MOOC Company Chegg 49