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Codecademy, an Early (and Now Profitable) Pioneer of Coding Education, Raises $40M in New Funding

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Codecademy has been on our radar for a long time, as one of the early, long-standing leaders in online learning,” said Amit Patel, Owl Ventures’ managing director. “We Codecademy hired its first chief financial officer last November: former Chegg executive and general manager Adam Goldman. Chegg went public in 2013.

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Byju’s Becomes an Edtech ‘Decacorn’ After Fundraise from Mary Meeker’s Bond Capital

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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. Byju’s claims its online learning app, which offers instructional videos, live classes and practice questions, is now used by more than 57 million students.

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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.”

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“Free College” Via Edsurge : “For Free Community College , Online Learning Isn’t Always Part of the Recipe for Success.” ” “Examining Trends in Graduate Student Debt by Race and Ethnicity” by Seton Hall University professor Robert Kelchen. ” That is, Marion Technical College.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. Coding Bootcamps. Common Core State Standards.

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. “ Ed Tech Cybersecurity : Suppose they gave a data breach and nobody came,” writes Phil Hill on the Chegg data breach. Via Techcrunch : “Two hackers who stole millions of users’ data from ride-hailing firm Uber have been indicted on separate hacking charges related to a data breach at online learning portal Lynda.”