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K-12 Dealmaking: Follett, Chegg, Golden Gate Capital Make Acquisitions

Marketplace K-12

In this week’s dealmaking news, a handful of education companies were acquired; Follett acquired adaptive learning platform Fishtree and Chegg acquired online studying platform StudyBlue. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Follett, Chegg, Golden Gate Capital Make Acquisitions appeared first on Market Brief.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

We see the e-textbook certainly not as kind of the future adaptive-learning technology product that the industry’s working toward, but it’s certainly a building block. Now beyond the textbook revenue, what we look at is, How do we start to introduce adaptive-learning technologies directly to students?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

No mention that Lexia Learning is owned by Rosetta Stone. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. Very thorough research, gj. Via CMX : “ How Edcamp Scaled Up 1,500 Community Events Connecting Educators All Over the World.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” Because we have five orders of magnitude more data about you than Google has.

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