Edtech Insiders

Week in Edtech 12/01/2023: Meta's Multimodal Leap, StraighterLine and Acadeum's College Course Sharing, Plus Special Guests: Sara Mauskopf of Winnie and Candice Faktor of Disco

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In this episode of Week in Edtech, Ben and Alex discuss:

1. Big Tech:

  • Meta launches “Seamless” LLM for speech-to-speech translation.  Multi-modal innovation
  • Meta’s Instagram also made news in all the wrong ways

2. Higher Ed:

  • StraighterLine Partners with Acadeum to Offer College Course Sharing

3. In Other News...

  • U.S. Department of Education Holds Off On New Rules for Third-Party Servicers… For Now
  • Curriculum Associates Acquires SoapBox Labs
  • ParentSquare Acquires Remind
  • 2U finances unveiled by Phil Hill, doesn't look good
  • Portland Teachers Strike Ends after a month and nobody is happy
  • Congress (Tom Cotton) pushing a ban on cell phones in school

Special Guests:

  • Sara Mauskopf from Winnie discuss Early Childhood Education
  • Candice Faktor from Disco discuss Community Powered Learning
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