Edtech Insiders

This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 8/20/22


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Guests: David Harris, OpenStax at Rice University & Justin Weinberg, Aktiv Learning

Topics This Week:

  1. Back to School, But Media Narratives Say Education Is in Trouble
    • Teacher Shortage
    • Local School Grades Plummeting
    • HMH report: education is not an appealing field
  2. Value of Higher Ed in Question
    • Why Americans are increasingly dubious about going to college
    • Higher Ed Must Change or Die
    • A New Vision for College Excellence
    • The Shrinking of Higher Ed
    • Cardona Speech
    • Feds cancel $4B in ITT Tech loans  
  3. Potential Solution? Increasing Modularity in Higher Ed
    • Company steps in to ease transfer credit friction
    • Indicators of Higher Education Equity in U.S.
    • What Works in K12
  4. Learning on TikTok & YouTube
    • Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022
    • TikTok Teachers
  5. The Edtech Space in 2022
    • EdTech isn’t special anymore and that’s a good thing.
    • 7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive
    • 23 Most Promising Edtech Startups in 2022

Funding + M&A

  • CreatorDAO raises $20M
  • FundamentalVR raises $20M
  • Junto raises $5M
  • Sphere raises $4.3M
  • Harver acquires Pymetrics
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