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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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