Guest: Jeffrey Cohen, CEO of FullBloom

Topics This Week:

1. Class Technologies Acquires Blackboard Collaborate
   • $210M Deal
   • PhilOnEdTech Take 
2. Metaverse
   • Mercedes Bent on why Metaverse isn’t Over-hyped
   • World Economic Forum: the future of education is in experiential learning & VR
   • Virtual Is the New Reality for M.B.A. Students
   • Invact Metaversity cancels first cohort
3. Big Tech in Ed
   • Facebook Working on a Udemy Competitor?
4. Declining Enrollment at Public Schools
   • NYT ‘Seismic Hit’ Take
5. Funding + M&A
   • Fundraising in a Downturn? + Emerge Summit 22
   • Masterschool raises $100M
   • Torch raises $40M
   • Parallel Learning raises $20M
   • FoondaMate raises $2M
   • 6 Bit Education raises £800K
   • Knowunity raises €10M
   • Amplify Acquires Desmos
   • Genius Group Acquires E-Squared