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Chegg Cuts $15 Million Check to Buy AI-Feedback Tool, WriteLab

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Chegg announced today that it bought the Berkeley-based startup for about $15 million in an all-cash transaction. The company has also begun partnering with other companies such as Pearson and Microsoft. The acquisition by Chegg is the kind of outcome that entrepreneurs and investors have long hoped to see in the edtech world.

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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But hints of the future were present, even back then, since there was a way to earn college credit from the course I didn’t finish, supplemental education CD-ROMs were making their way into K12 schools, and Microsoft and Intel were offering certifications that could be earned entirely online. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8

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Earnings Roundup: How Public Edtech Companies Fared Following the Outbreak

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Chegg The bottom line: Chegg’s first quarter delighted investors. Fueling that growth is Chegg Services, which brought in just over $100 million in revenue last quarter, a 33 percent increase over Q1 2019. As such, it is difficult to predict how much, if any, of Chegg's first half momentum will continue.” What’s ahead?

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60+ Great Educational Websites

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Zoom Google Meet Blackboard Collaborate Skype Microsoft Teams Webex Researcher tools There are numerous academic research tools that can help you in each stage of the research process. You can use these tools to deliver online training sessions, workshops, webinars, schedule and plan meetings , and more.

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Springboard Raises $11 Million to Expand Mentor-Driven Coding Bootcamps

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Graduates have landed jobs with employers like Microsoft, Facebook and Boeing. And Springboard recently finalized a partnership with Microsoft to help train and place 5,000 students into analytics jobs with the tech giant over the next three years. The company says it has trained more than 14,000 students since its founding in 2013.

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

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I’m going to use Chegg PT to do this. 00:12:17 Speaker 2 Microsoft delivers to you where you have some version of Gemini and what Google offers to you. I mean one of the clear things is that while there was an initial, I mean people are using this both all the time and not at all. 00:11:57 Speaker 2 That is dedicated use.

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Top 80 Apps for Schools

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Here are some of the best homework help apps for your students: Chegg Brainly Khan Academy Socratic Egenda myHomework Flash Cards Quizlet 4. Here are some of the best note taking apps to use in school: Google Keep Bear Evernote Notion SimpleNote Microsoft OneNote 6.

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