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

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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