Week in Edtech, 2/8/2023 with Ben Kornell and Guests Audrey Witters (Stanford GSB), Mike Malefakis (Emeritus) and Amy Jenkins (Meadow)

Episode description

Send us a text

On this super-sized episode of "This Week in Edtech":

• We talk to Guests Audrey Witters of Stanford GSB and Mike Malefakis of Emeritus about the Emeritus/Stanford collaboration to bring localized executive education from Stanford to the world
• And hear from Amy Jenkins, COO of Meadow, about their plans to improve tuition transparency and streamline payments.

Ben and Alex also dig into:

• ChatGPT and Edtech coming together
  • PhotoStudy announces ChatGPT-like Chatbot for Math Textbooks and their Publishers
  • Who Owns the Generative AI Platform? | Andreessen Horowitz
• DARPA for Education
  • Is a ‘DARPA for education’ finally happening?
• Culture Wars Continue in US Schools
  • The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies - The New York Times
  • BBC: Revised AP African American Studies class drops controversial topics after criticism
  • AP African-American studies: Syllabus changed after Florida 'woke' claims - BBC News
• Teacher/Mental Health Professional Shortages as the ESSER Cliff nears
  • 63% of educators consider leaving profession | K-12 Dive
  • The funding cliff for student mental health 
• Phoenix moving to Arkansas?
  • University Of Arkansas May Acquire For-Profit University Of Phoenix - Which Is Good News

Funding:

• Corporate Training platform Gemba raises $18M in Series A
• Math VR company PrismsVR Raises $12.5M from Andreesen Horowitz
• Swiss curriculum delivery platform Evulpo raises $8.3M
• Indian LMS Provider Saarthi Pedagogy raises $3.7M Pre-series A
• Healthcare training platform Re:Course AI raises £3.4m in seed funding