This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 8/20/22

Guests: David Harris, OpenStax at Rice University & Justin Weinberg, Aktiv Learning

Topics This Week:

1. Back to School, But Media Narratives Say Education Is in Trouble

   • Teacher Shortage

   • Local School Grades Plummeting

   • HMH report: education is not an appealing field

2. Value of Higher Ed in Question

   • Why Americans are increasingly dubious about going to college

   • Higher Ed Must Change or Die

   • A New Vision for College Excellence

   • The Shrinking of Higher Ed

   • Cardona Speech

   • Feds cancel $4B in ITT Tech loans  

3. Potential Solution? Increasing Modularity in Higher Ed

   • Company steps in to ease transfer credit friction

   • Indicators of Higher Education Equity in U.S.

   • What Works in K12

4. Learning on TikTok & YouTube

   • Teens, Social Media and Technology 2022

   • TikTok Teachers

5. The Edtech Space in 2022

   • EdTech isn’t special anymore and that’s a good thing.

   • 7 investors discuss why edtech startups must go back to basics to survive

   • 23 Most Promising Edtech Startups in 2022

Funding + M&A

• CreatorDAO raises $20M

• FundamentalVR raises $20M

• Junto raises $5M

• Sphere raises $4.3M

• Harver acquires Pymetrics