This Week in Edtech, 8/5/22

Welcome to Season 2 of This Week in Edtech!

Guest: Matthew Tower, Principal @ Workshop Venture Partners

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Topics This Week:

1. Byju’s

   • Layoffs, debt, litigation!?

2. Bearish OPMs

   • Phil Hill: ”The brutal spring and summer for OPMs & MOOCs”

   • Zovio sells OPM business to University of Arizona Global Campus

   • 2U Layoffs + tuition share agreements

3. Funding Landscape

   • HolonIQ – Global Edtech Funding 2022 H1

4. Metaverse

   • College in the metaverse is here. Is higher ed ready?

   • Time Magazine cover + Meta ads 

   • Classdojo raises $125MM

5. Crypto & Web3

   • Pearson plans to sell its textbooks as NFTs

   • DAOs - the new LLCs?

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