Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

She followed Course Hero on Twitter, where its feed is full of advice and inspirational quotes for educators. At about the same time, though, Rutgers officials sent out an email to all faculty at the university, warning about Course Hero and another service, Chegg, where students were posting faculty tests and exams without permission. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Over the years, GSV has invested in the likes of Facebook, Spotify and Twitter alongside education companies including Chegg and Coursera. Moe was intrigued when the longtime president of Belhaven University, Roger Parrott, pitched him the idea for an entrepreneurship MBA last year.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. In an effort to solve the never-ending debate over whether education technology “works,” EdSurge is creating “Surgecoin,” the first cryptocurrency tied to product efficacy. TREMENDOUS DEAL!

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Few, if any, of MissionU’s financial backers publicly celebrated the transaction on Twitter or elsewhere. But reactions to this month’s announcement that MissonU has been bought by WeWork have been lukewarm, if not entirely absent. MissionU ’s end felt as abrupt as its mission was bold. Why sell if there was still that much left in the bank?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2019

Over the past decade, Michael Moe and his business partner, Deborah Quazzo, have been central players in building the education technology economy. From a technology standpoint, it was still kind of backwards compared to where society was heading. So you can look at Chegg, which we’re an investor in, which has a $5.5 Absolutely.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Colleges Use Technology to Help Students Manage Mental Health.” Via The Atlantic : “ Police-Grade Surveillance Technology Comes to the Playground.” Sometimes I write a few comments.

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