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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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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. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). Skillsoft (NYSE: SKIL) is down 50.8

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)? Yet another LMS. Switching something as deeply entrenched in a school’s operations as their LMS is so painful that it’s basically a non-starter. In fact, a freebie option is emerging as some schools are adopting Google Classroom as a lightweight LMS. Yet another student book exchange.

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Blackboard Co-Founder: ‘4 Secrets to Building a Tech Company for Higher Ed’

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Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. The winner of the LMS market would be the company with the most widely adopted platform. And if you appealed to what the CIO needed to provision an LMS at scale, you’d seal the deal. Chegg was founded in 2005 and went public eight years later in 2013.

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The 2018 EdSurde Annual Special: Surgecoin, EduWands and Other News Not Fit for Print

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Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. He doesn’t register for classes on the school’s LMS. Teachers in Luxembourg are currently signing up in droves to help their beleaguered colleagues in Oklahoma and Kentucky.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Preparing for the Post-LMS World ” by Jonathan Rees. ” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. Via Techcrunch : “ Chegg resets 40 million user passwords after data breach.” Boxlight Corporation has acquired EOS Education for ~$300,000.

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Why Your Financial Advisor Doesn’t Recommend Edtech Stocks

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We tried to avoid big tech companies like Google or Apple that offer education products, corporate LMS's, for-profit higher education, and companies that operate brick and mortar schools. Our Basket of Edtech Stocks: 2U. Cambium Learning Group. Graham Holdings. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Instructure. Rosetta Stone. Scholastic.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “Education Company Chegg Acknowledges Data Breach , Puts 40 Million Users on Notice.” ” Via e-Literate : “ North American Higher Ed LMS Market Share by Enrollments: A consolidating market.” Research, “Research,” and Reports.