Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

Chegg , a publicly-traded provider of textbook rentals and online student services, has closed a $700 million convertible note offering that, after taking expenses into consideration, should give the company an additional $682.7 A Chegg spokesman declined to comment or share additional details. million in cash. million in equity ).

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

That’s an example of a request that can be found on online tutoring services like Chegg, as shared by a senior data scientist at the company, Sanghamitra Deb. Yet this is the kind of “help” that Chegg’s tutoring service can sometimes be used for. But Chegg doesn’t take action against the person making the request.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2022

While they’re both ostensibly working to make education as strong as possible, educators and edtech don’t always see eye to eye. The deepest challenge getting edtech and educators to connect is a cultural one, said Luyen Chou, chief learning officer at 2U, Inc., Is Morris’ move a model for other educators?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2019

The latest quarterly earnings for publicly traded education technology companies was especially rough for 2U , which revised its loss guidance for the year and stated that it expected enrollment challenges to its core business of running online graduate programs with universities. Chegg now has about $1.1 on the close of Aug.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

Chegg announced today that it bought the Berkeley-based startup for about $15 million in an all-cash transaction. Educators have appreciated their work. The acquisition by Chegg is the kind of outcome that entrepreneurs and investors have long hoped to see in the edtech world. WriteLab had previously raised about $3.2

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Joseph Ching, a junior at Purdue University, says many of his professors have warned students not to use sites like Chegg, where students are posting homework and quiz questions and getting answers from tutors. I reached out to Chegg, and sure enough, business there is booming. Students pay for a subscription of $14.99

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2019

Gonzalez’s firm last invested in student services provider Chegg, but hadn’t found another education company that piqued his interest until his firm started talks with Platzi. For the U.S. and European Union, by comparison, that applies to about 60 percent of each area’s workforce. companies in search of employees in the region.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

The Brooklyn-based company best known for fusing hip hop with educational content in music videos and instructional activities, has been acquired by Nearpod , which helps educators beam digital content to students’ devices. We asked, but he declined.) Combined, the two companies claim they will reach more than 7 million U.S.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 8, 2023

The world of educational technology is evolving meteorically and what is relevant today might be irrelevant next month. The latest trend in EdTech that I see currently gaining traction is Artificial Intelligence technologies. That's how volatile the nature of the EdTech world is.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) Those funds will be used to purchase a privately held education company, which will then become public as a result of the transaction. Moe has picked some winners in education. public market.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2022

Brighterly.com Educators at Brighterly are committed to providing only the most incredible learning opportunities for children. Math educators demonstrate their ability to clearly and simply explain basic and complex mathematical concepts by drawing on their personal experiences and expertise.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

The sudden shift gave leaders at DreamBox Learning, a math education company headquartered nearby, an early glimpse at the upheaval to come and an inkling that digital teaching tools would soon be in high demand around the country. Education has become relatively more attractive.” But how to make the most of the moment?

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

It’s often said that education is counter-cyclical to the market, especially during times of economic downturns. But not all sectors of the market follow that rule, says Jeff Silber, a managing director at BMO Capital Markets who follows the education industry. Chegg The bottom line: Chegg’s first quarter delighted investors.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

But how is machine learning playing out in education—and how does it impact not just students, educators and parents, but also the businesses building technology tools to support teaching and learning? When you’re doing it in diagnostics or in education or in hiring, you potentially just ruined someone’s life.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

And now that Reach Capital is done fundraising, it will return its focus to evaluating pitches from education entrepreneurs, all vying for a piece of Reach’s new $82 million fund. based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. In total, this first fund supported 35 investments.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 18, 2018

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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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Indian online education startup Byju’s, which already reached the billion-dollar valuation from private investors in 2018, can now claim a new distinction: “decacorn.” Byju’s is the newest member—thanks to an investment from technology investment firm Bond, which values the company at $10.5 What comes after a unicorn?

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Textbook publishing giant Pearson Education has filed suit against education technology company Chegg, saying the online homework help provider infringed on its copyright. The post Pearson Files Lawsuit Against Ed-tech Company Chegg, Alleging Improper Lifting of Content appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2022

During the past two years of the COVID-19 crisis, there has been a spike in student use of so-called homework help websites —including Chegg and Course Hero—which market themselves as providing study aids but which many professors see as designed to aid student cheating. Facing Bigger Challenges Tutoring centers aren’t just changing tactics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2019

million in a seed round led by Mark Cuban and ECMC Group, an education nonprofit. Other investors include education technology executives, like Penn Foster CEO Frank Britt and Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, along with Zynga founder Mark Pincus and Flatiron Health CEO, Nat Turner. The Culver City, Calif.-based

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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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Marketplace K-12

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Textbook and tutoring company Chegg is acquiring a leading language learning platform to expand its offerings into different languages. The company announced it will acquire Busuu, a UK company, for approximately $436 million in an all-cash transaction.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Learning platform provider Chegg announced its acquisition of Cogeon, and ed-tech investor Owl Ventures closed an $185 million funding round. The post Chegg, Fuel Education Announce Acquisitions; Owl Raises $185M appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

And as college campuses closed and instructors scrambled to facilitate online instruction, digital education providers like Course Hero saw a surge in usage of its services. So far there are 45,000 verified educators on the platform, up from 20,000 in August 2019, according to Grauer.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2022

Clicking onto their favorite courses at the end of May, educators found that they were getting redirected somewhere else. To their surprise, however, the educators found themselves not on Lumen’s website but on Course Hero, a homework-help site that’s blocked by some higher ed institutions for its use by some students as a cheating tool.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2018

A handful of education companies, including Chegg and Boxlight. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Chegg, Boxlight Make Education-Related Acquisitions appeared first on Market Brief. announced acquisitions this week.

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ET Magazine

APRIL 29, 2025

Bell has held senior leadership roles at leading education and technology companies. Bell also served as the Global Head of Sales for the cloud-based audio recording studio Soundtrap for Education where he significantly expanded the companys recurring revenue. in Educational Administration from Texas A&M University.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Citation Machine Citation Machine by Chegg is another helpful bibliography generator to try out, well , if you can stand the annoying ads. Cite This for Me and BibMe are all Chegg services that are similar to Citation Machine. You can copy and paste it into your paper. Once done click on Complete citation.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

As a string of online-education companies have gone public, including Chegg, Coursera, Kahoot and others, it seems that investors have decided that there’s enough public interest in digital learning, and they want in. Yasuko Kanno, chair of Boston University’s Language and Literacy Education department, agrees.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

Tell me a little bit about some of your recent partnerships with companies such as Chegg. Chegg provides, amongst other things, tutoring services. I think Chegg is doing well in that. But with the introduction of Cengage Unlimited, we're actually opening up to more potential acquisitions down the road.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

But educators and industry watchers have plenty of questions about the marriage of these long-time rivals, and about what it will mean for professors and students. That’s because doing so doesn’t require all the content to live on the same technology platform, but simply means setting up an account that can work across existing products.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Under his tenure, Pearson has embarked on a rocky transition to refocus Pearson as a digital-focused education company. higher-education courseware and in-school assessment in the U.S. Speaking on CNBC , Fallon quipped that the “biggest competitor in higher education is second-hand sales of our own textbooks.” and the U.K.”

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

GSV is making a new investment in education. Over the years, GSV has invested in the likes of Facebook, Spotify and Twitter alongside education companies including Chegg and Coursera. But this time, it’s not pouring money into a startup or a conference. Its partner? A small, Christian college in Jackson, Mississippi.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

put $150 million in Hero K12 , and Bain Capital, whose Double Impact Fund is on the hunt for promising (and lucrative) education teams. million Trilogy Education $30 million $30 million CreativeLive $25 million $76 million Nearpod $21 million $30 million Examity $21 million $21 million . of deals.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Colleges were spending millions networking classrooms and residence halls, and I wondered about the absence of technology in the “front office” for teaching and learning. Here are some lessons I learned about what makes the higher education market unique. Governance is shared, while accountability is diffuse. The idea was simple.

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