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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. Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. Soon, there will be one fewer after tech training provider Pluralsight gets taken private later this year.

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Best Vocabulary Apps for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Key features like voice search, Word of the Day, integrated thesaurus, example sentences, and audio pronunciations elevate the learning experience. The app also caters to personalized learning with features like favorite words, search history, and iCloud syncing.

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Top Trends Higher Education Textbook Publishers Must Follow

Kitaboo on EdTech

Rather than giving out a default collection of chapters in every eBook, let them choose their own learning resources and create personalized learning materials. This chapter-based content selection will enable higher education students to take and combine specific learning content that suits their learning needs.

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

eSchool News

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. 00:09:13 It’s not really. 00:09:33 Speaker 2 And a lot of that stuff. 00:11:57 Speaker 2 That is dedicated use.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. ” It reminded me, not of Carnegie who the article mentions, but of Gates , who initially started funding libraries – public and collective access to digital technologies – before turning to school reform and “personalized learning” efforts.

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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. Via Techcrunch : “ Chegg resets 40 million user passwords after data breach.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

And in Edsurge, Amber Oliver and Michael Horn write , “Without the Right Curriculum , Personalized Learning Is Just Another Fad.” More on the Gates Foundation changes [in Education Week](With Latest Education Investments, Gates Pivots Again) and in Chalkbeat and on my personal blog.

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