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Send us Fan Mail Sophie Brickman is the author of the new book “Baby, Unplugged: One Mother’s Search for Balance, Reason and Sanity in the Digital Age” , all about how parents can try to navigate the world of technology. Sophie Brickman is a writer, reporter and editor based in New York City. Her journalistic work has appeared in The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall Street Jo...

Send us Fan Mail 1.  Brutal Year for EdTech It’s Been A ‘Brutal’ Year for Public Education Companies 2.  Major Breaking News:  Byju’s in Talks to Buy Chegg or 2U India’s Byju’s Eyes Chegg or 2U as It Weighs US Acquisition Scott Galloway’s edtech startup, Section4, lays off a quarter of staff 3.  Advertising and Marketing over Education in College Spend GAO Report on Online Program Managers Was Onl...

Send us Fan Mail Louisa Rosenheck is the Director of Pedagogy at Kahoot! , one of the largest and most influential gamified edtech companies in the world. Louisa is also an ed tech designer with a passion for game-based learning and playful pedagogies, and teaches educational technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she earned her Master’s degree in the Harvard TIE program. Pr...

Send us Fan Mail Topics This Week: Higher Ed’s Commodification and Decentralization Upskilling Trend Brings Coupons, ‘Flash Sales’ and Other Marketing Gimmicks edX’s Role After 2U Acquisition The Future Of Learning Is Radically Decentralized K-12 LAUSD makes 'historic' $50M investment to address digital divide Union pushback on Meta Twitter sale shows us why edtech companies should be ac...

Send us Fan Mail Jordan Adair is the Vice President of Product at Honorlock , an online proctoring platform dedicated to maintaining academic integrity. Jordan began his career in education as an elementary and middle school teacher. After transitioning into educational technology, he became focused on delivering products designed to empower instructors and improve the student experience. Honorloc...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Ashley Andersen Zantop , CEO & Chairman of Cambium Learning Group Topics This Week: Google Grow Good? Training now free for 500 workers at every U.S. business Student Debt Cancellation Broad cancellation could backfire We should cancel student debt, but only for some Income caps + Online certificate programs Kinder-Crisis? Reading recovery's long-term effects ECD g...

Send us Fan Mail Eli Bildner is a Senior Director at Guild Education , where he helps to provide opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling, all funded by employers. Eli was also the co-Executive Director and co-founder of Rivet School , a non-profit which simplifies college by pairing an accredited online degree with real-world supports, such as a personal coach, financi...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Stratsi Kulinski , President of NewU University International Bubble? New Oriental Education , Unacademy , BYJU's Metaverse Meta , Fidelity , Athenaverse , Immerse , Moonhub Adult Learning Udemy's Global Workplace Learning Index Mental Health Data CDC report , Securly , LeanLab , SMART Technologies + Kooth Funding + M&A Zenda , Newton School , Blue Sky , Vivfy...

Send us Fan Mail Mario Vasilescu is co-founder of Readocracy , an online learning platform that makes all the content you consume count. Readocracy includes a knowledge profile that quantifies and showcases your passions, private insights like a “Fitbit for your information diet”, and social features that reward people for being well-informed. With his team, they are on a mission to create a futur...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Amar Kumar - Founder & CEO @ KaiPod Learning Topics: Online Tutoring Data + Efficacy Schools Pay Millions for Tutoring a16z START   American Dynamism Three Year Degrees + Loans Black women are uniquely burdened by student debt Funding + M&A Galena , WeeCare , NeighborSchools , Handshake , SkillStorm, iNeuron, Jenzabar , Entourage

Send us Fan Mail In this second part of the Postcards from ASU GSV mini-series, we talk to a wide variety of amazing Higher Ed and workforce entrepreneurs about their companies, what they're seeing at the ASU conference, and what they're seeing in the field at large. 1) Manny Smith , CEO of Edvisorly , a platform to support community college students who are transferring credit 2) Fadl ,...

Send us Fan Mail Svenia Busson is a global Learning Innovation explorer who has traveled through 19 countries to identify the most innovative technological teaching and learning practices, which she captured in her recent book, ‘Exploring the Future of Education’ .  Svenia is also a major network builder in Europe, having co-founded both Edtech France, an industry association representing 400 star...

Send us Fan Mail Guest: Mehrad Yaghmai - Co-Founder of Qureos Qureos raises $3M to grow its learn to earn platform Topics This Week: Employers start to lighten debt load for learners Fund Debt-Free Education Programs End unpaid internships Free tuition lures low-income students K-12 schools in US face multiple challenges Staffing Shortages + Universal school meals 1 in 4 superintendents likely to...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, Edtech Insiders hits the road and travels to San Diego for the ASU GSV conference, the biggest and most influential Edtech conferences in the US. Rather than a single interview, this episode contains no less than EIGHT short 'hallway' interviews with all variety of amazing Edtech and education founders and influencers.  This episode focuses on in...

Send us Fan Mail Beth Porter started her career in the mathematics classroom before moving into edtech with Mathsoft and Pearson, where she was a VP of software product management. She was an VP of product at Edx in the heady MOOC days of 2014-2015, has consulted, taught at MIT and Boston University, and is most recently, the co-founder of two Edtech companies- Esme Learning, where she is the Pres...

Send us Fan Mail On this week in Edtech, we are delighted to have guest host Matthew Tower to cover the top stories of the week: Topics This Week: EdTech @ ASU+GSV Ed On The Edge: Deborah Quazzo On About What To Expect At ASU+GSV 2022  What’s the Future of ETS and Standardized Testing? A New Leader for ETS - Amit Sevak MIT Reinstates SAT/ACT Requirement Crumbling School Infrastructure This school...

Send us Fan Mail Jeanette Cheah is an award-winning education technology and business leader based in Melbourne, and raised across the US, Japan and Australia. As CEO & founder of HEX, she’s dedicated to transforming young people into the innovators the world needs tomorrow and seeing the next generation of talent thrive.  HEX prepares students for the fast-changing global workforce with the t...

Send us Fan Mail Karl Rectanus is an educator, serial entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of LearnPlatform, a mission-driven "for benefit" corporation, where he leads a team of educators, researchers and technologists committed to expanding equitable access for students. LearnPlatform is an Edtech effectiveness system working to deliver safe, equitable, cost-effective learning for di...

Send us Fan Mail Outschool How Outschool won the pandemic Master’s Degree Pricing Soars Ryan Craig on MasterCrash Web3 and Education Jomayra Herrera on Learning, Earning, and Web3  University Rankings Don’t Add Up Columbia Professor Challenges U.S. News & World Report College Ranking The University in Ruins M&A Nigerian Edtech Startup Klas Secures $130k Video Learning Startup Raises $29m t...

Send us Fan Mail Ope Bukola was a product manager at Amplify Education and a product lead for Google Classroom for four years before branching out as an entrepreneur in 2020. She founded a company to build African tech talent, was a founding member of Level, a multiracial network that invests in businesses led by Black women, and joined the Board of Zeta, a network of high-performing charter schoo...

Send us Fan Mail Sergio Monsalve is a Founding Partner of Roble Ventures, a venture capital investing firm based in Silicon Valley that invests in human enablement technologies: solutions that help human progress. Sergio is also visiting professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education and Business. In both roles, he is focused on the “Future of Work and Learning” and on developing...

Send us Fan Mail Topics This Week: NSVF and Others Receive Funding from MacKenzie Scott for General Operating Here’s Who MacKenzie Scott Donated To So Far In February MacKenzie Scott Makes Historic Gift to NewSchools Venture Fund Edtech Metrics and Skepticism Edtech Companies Must Place Learning Ahead of Revenue and Engagement Who is the Theranos of Education ? Edtech firm Zovio (ZVO) fined $22 mi...

Send us Fan Mail 1. International Women’s Day (“Break the Bias”) Top 200 Women who are leading Global EdTech Startups. – HolonIQ Supercharger Edtech Female Founders Erase All Kittens signs distribution deal with Tesco 2. Russia becomes a true pariah state for education Colleges cut financial ties to Russia European University Association Kicks Out Russian Universities Hundreds of Medical Students...

Send us Fan Mail  Josh Owens is the CEO and co-founder of Boost , a personal notification assistant for students on their smartphone.  Josh was formerly the CEO of Supplykick, a growth-stage online marketplace retailer, has been a gubernatorial candidate for the State of Indiana, and has taught economics at Butler University and Indiana University. Boost connects directly to a student's Canva...

Send us Fan Mail Eduflow is rapidly becoming one a best-in-class LMS, including a cutting edge peer grading system that both saves instructor time and provides learning opportunities for learners and graders alike. David Kofoed Wind, the CEO of Peergrade and Eduflow describes his unusual journey from university teaching to edtech in Copenhagen, Denmark, and how Eduflow is working to make online, a...