Week in Edtech 3/26/23: Big Tech Goes all in on AI, Pearson Sells OPM, Rise of Homeschooling & Skill-Based Hiring

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This week on the pod:

1) Big Tech Goes All in On AI

• Launch of Google Bard
• Adobe launches Firefly generative A.I., which lets users type to edit images
• Microsoft launches Loop, a Notion competitor

+ ChatGPT in Education:

• Where Is the ‘AI Conundrum’ in Education Headed?
• We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’
• Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT

2) Pearson sells OPM Division/OPM Regulation

• Pearson Sells Its OPM Business  (PhilOnEdTech)
• When universities slap their names on for-profit coding boot camps 

3) How Has COVID Changed Public Schooling?

• Public School Enrollment Dropped by 1.2M During the Pandemic
• New Mexico terminates 1:1 online tutoring contract with Paper
• 5 pandemic-era technologies schools don’t want to give up

4) Skills-Based Hiring On the Rise

• Accredible Announces the Launch of Skills Pathways 
• REPORT: How Skills Are Disrupting Work 
• Global Survey of 37k School Students Reveals Desire to Modernize Education

5) The Myth of Education as an Equalizer: Book Review

• The Myth of Education as Equalizer 

Funding/M&A:

• BREAKING: Workera's $23m Series B
• Glider AI raises $10M 
• Almentor raises $10M 
• Trala Raises $8 Million
• AG5 raises €6 million
• Upduo raises $4M
• Maqsad Secures $2.8 Million
• VitalSource Acquires Akademos
• Quottly Joins Parchment