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

Edsurge

That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. Skillsoft, a corporate learning company, was merged with IT skills provider Global Knowledge Training and taken public by Churchill Capital last October.

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Best Vocabulary Apps for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

From elementary school students to those preparing for high-stakes tests like the SAT or GRE, these vocabulary apps provide a diverse range of features tailored to different learning styles and objectives. With features like new vocabulary-building quizzes, it transforms vocabulary learning into an engaging and interactive experience.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

Kitaboo on EdTech

Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space. This led higher education textbook publishers to shift towards digital publishing , albeit reluctantly as they learned that digital is the only way forward.

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Look Who’s Talking—Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution on AI in education

eSchool News

Discover the future of learning in the AI age and gain insights into the innovative solutions reshaping classrooms.” We’ve had a promise for personalized learning for the last, I don’t know 3 decades and this is I think the next the big maybe potentially step change. I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” ISTE has hired Joseph South as its Chief Learning Officer. Via the Coursera blog : “What’s Next in Employee Learning: Virtual Reality.” ” Holy s**t.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Learning Engineers Inch Toward the Spotlight,” Inside Higher Ed claims. ” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. “Learning Designers will have to adapt or die. million from Naspers and Learn Capital. The learn-to-code company has raised $6.9

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. And in Edsurge, Amber Oliver and Michael Horn write , “Without the Right Curriculum , Personalized Learning Is Just Another Fad.” Chatterbug is a language learning startup. million total.

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