This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 8/12/22

Topics This Week:

1. Fall Election Cycle

   • Va. Gov. Youngkin faces second suit over teacher tip line

   • Democrats Cede ‘Party of Education’ Label to GOP

2. 2022 CHLOE 7 Report

   • Announcement + PDF

   • Online learning leaders think fully in-person will be a rarity

3. Big Tech vs. Udemy

   • Amazon Launches Udemy Competitor

   • Facebook Working on a Udemy Competitor?

4. Metaverse

   • Harvard Metaverse in Education Report

   • Deloitte Metaverse Report

   • AppLovin wants to buy video game maker Unity for $20 billion

5. Funding + M&A

   • upGrad raises $210M and acquires Exampur

   • Jodo raises $15M

   • Territorium raises $4.4M

   • Kide Science raises $1M

   • Achievable raises $650K

   • Prometric LLC acquires Finetune

   • EducationDynamics acquires EDU First