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Best Second Jobs for Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Chegg Tutors : Chegg is a popular platform that connects students to tutors in a wide range of subjects. Moreover, they are used to varying their tone and pace to keep students engaged, which can also be beneficial in voiceover roles.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

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Among those who tried include Osman Rashid, the co-founder of Chegg and Kno, who launched Galxyz in 2014 to build a science video games for grades three to 12. This could change the way students engage with science,” he said. A Most Difficult Game The struggles of Planet3 are not unique to the educational game industry.

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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Student engagement and retention mobile apps. Most of them offer some variation of the thesis that improving how “engagedstudents are in their coursework and community will boost academic outcomes which will then increase retention. Yet another student book exchange. Chegg (or Amazon for that matter)?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. In September 2010, Techcrunch founder Mike Arrington announced that Kno had raised $46 million from Andreessen-Horowitz and other investors.

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