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

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Founded in 2011, the New York-based company has built a hugely popular training platform that has helped millions of students learn to code over the last decade. Codecademy has been on our radar for a long time, as one of the early, long-standing leaders in online learning,” said Amit Patel, Owl Ventures’ managing director. “We

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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

MAY 16, 2018

Chegg announced today that it bought the Berkeley-based startup for about $15 million in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition by Chegg is the kind of outcome that entrepreneurs and investors have long hoped to see in the edtech world. Prior to buying WriteLab, in October 2017 Chegg paid €12.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2022

But if they want to thrive, both groups might need to learn to meet each other’s gaze. The deepest challenge getting edtech and educators to connect is a cultural one, said Luyen Chou, chief learning officer at 2U, Inc., during a panel at ASU-GSV on Monday. But they often talk past each other, focused on their own concerns.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2022

Access to online learning materials helps students manage their work/study schedules more effectively. Brighterly.com Educators at Brighterly are committed to providing only the most incredible learning opportunities for children. Prodigy Due to its game-based learning approach, Prodigy Math has swiftly gained fame among educators.

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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.) He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020. Soon, there will be one fewer after tech training provider Pluralsight gets taken private later this year.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

By mid-March, schools closed, sending students home to figure out how to keep learning from their kitchen tables. Never before have schools and colleges so urgently needed digital tools and services to facilitate remote learning—and been less able to afford them. The pandemic came early to Seattle. And customers seem grateful. “If

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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

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 A small but mighty movement was building – and it needed time to grow.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2022

“Before, I would say to myself, ‘I’m going to spend 20 hours of my [budget] on chemistry tutoring because I know that’s a high-challenge course,’” explains Kelli Listenbee, director of learning support services at Arkansas State. “We We’re really stepping away from content- specific tutoring and diving into learning and how to do that.”

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

From Formula 1 to Yelp, industries across the board are seeking ways to apply machine learning to their work. 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?

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

“Many schools, parents and students are realizing that you can’t just press a button and learn.” Chegg The bottom line: Chegg’s first quarter delighted investors. Fueling that growth is Chegg Services, which brought in just over $100 million in revenue last quarter, a 33 percent increase over Q1 2019. at Tuesday’s close.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Byju’s is the newest member—thanks to an investment from technology investment firm Bond, which values the company at $10.5 Bond was founded by Mary Meeker, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins whose annual “Internet Trends” reports have become a must-read for the technology industry. billion , according to The Economic Times.

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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

MARCH 14, 2019

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. -based startup has raised $1.9 million in a seed round led by Mark Cuban and ECMC Group, an education nonprofit.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

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 One of the other giants of the study-aid world, Chegg, has also come under criticism by professors.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In today’s post we are sharing with you two interesting citation generators from Chegg students can use to help them with crediting the sources they include in their research papers. These tools.read more

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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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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 11, 2022

They were trying to prep summer courses by linking to the freely available, openly licensed alternatives known as Open Educational Resources, or OER, content offered by Lumen Learning, a courseware provider that argues that OER can be a tool in making higher education more equitable. There was confusion. “Hi Hi OER Friends!

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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. With the widespread use of web and mobile technologies, language learning has become way easier and accessible.

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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

JULY 30, 2018

based firm has established itself as a familiar name within the education technology industry. Earlier in 2018, Pluralsight, which provides online classes for technology and business professionals, went public. WriteLab (Chegg). Jennifer Carolan, co-founder and managing partner at Reach Capital The Palo Alto, Calif.-based

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 6, 2016

The month of May kicked off with a significant number of deals in the ed-tech sector, including acquisitions by Chegg and ACT, Inc. In addition, several companies, including Age of Learning, CodeCombat and GotIt!, based Chegg said in a statement. Age of Learning Raises $150 Million at $1 Billion Valuation: The Glendale, Calif.-based

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 23, 2020

In today’s post we are sharing with you two interesting citation generators from Chegg students can use to help them with crediting the sources they include in their research papers. These tools.read more

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

A combination of “market volatility” and “increased demand for help with remote learning led to a great opportunity to set ourselves up to raise more capital,” Grauer adds. Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s been about five years since Cengage Learning filed for bankruptcy , stumbling under the weight of shrinking print sales, a rough transition to digital and too much debt. Faculty have asked us over the years whether we care about the cost of learning materials. How are you characterizing a ‘vastly superior’ proposition?

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. And it turns out that online language learning is the fastest-growing market segment within the edtech industry. According to Urdan, language learning in the U.S.

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ET Magazine

APRIL 29, 2025

Bell has held senior leadership roles at leading education and technology companies. Before joining ClassDojo, he served as Regional Vice President of Sales at a live online learning platform, where he quickly accelerated pipeline development. To learn more, visit classdojo.com , Facebook , Instagram , and Twitter.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

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. use digital course materials, estimated Hansen, meaning that “80 percent of the students are still learning like my parents learned—with a book and with a teacher.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2016

That includes note-taking and review in a variety of formats to touch the varied approaches to learning. They are flexible, scalable, and as a group, address a variety of learning approaches students use. This is as easy to learn as taking notes on paper. Decks are easy to create and intuitive, with no learning curve.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Smartphones, tablets, and laptops had become a permanent requirement along with using technology in the classrooms by this time. Thus, replacing expensive textbooks with technology in the classroom is the right thing to do in the current scenario. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. 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.

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Blackboard Company Pearson LMS 131

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In November, it also divested its language-learning business, Wall Street English, for $100 million. Earlier this month, McGraw-Hill, Barnes & Noble Education and Chegg teamed up for a new digital textbook rental program that the trio claims can help students save as much as 70 percent from buying print copies. billion) in 2017.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In today’s post we are sharing with you two interesting citation generators from Chegg students can use to help them with crediting the sources they include in their research papers. These tools.read more.

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