This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 5/27/22

Guest: Jeffrey Cohen, CEO of FullBloom

Topics This Week:

1. Class Technologies Acquires Blackboard Collaborate

   • $210M Deal

   • PhilOnEdTech Take 

2. Metaverse

   • Mercedes Bent on why Metaverse isn’t Over-hyped

   • World Economic Forum: the future of education is in experiential learning & VR

   • Virtual Is the New Reality for M.B.A. Students

   • Invact Metaversity cancels first cohort

3. Big Tech in Ed

   • Facebook Working on a Udemy Competitor?

4. Declining Enrollment at Public Schools

   • NYT ‘Seismic Hit’ Take

5. Funding + M&A

   • Fundraising in a Downturn? + Emerge Summit 22

   • Masterschool raises $100M

   • Torch raises $40M

   • Parallel Learning raises $20M

   • FoondaMate raises $2M

   • 6 Bit Education raises £800K

   • Knowunity raises €10M

   • Amplify Acquires Desmos

   • Genius Group Acquires E-Squared