eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2015

‘Friendly robot-tutor in the sky’ delivers on-demand, hyper-personalized learning. Adaptive learning provider Knewton has launched a free, open personalized learning platform. Any individual can create or use state-of-the-art supplemental lessons to provide students with unique learning paths in real-time.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2015

Partnership will bring personalized learning products to high schools in Japan. Knewton has announced a partnership with Classi to provide adaptive learning solutions to Japanese public schools. Knewton will power Classi’s digital courses to help high school students get a more personalized learning experience.

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Marketplace K-12

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The post Founder of Adaptive Learning Company Knewton to Leave CEO Position appeared first on Market Brief. Jose, Ferreira, who launched the global adaptive technology company in 2008, will remain on the board of directors.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Few technologists have championed the role of big data, personalized learning and many other education buzzwords as vociferously and for as long as Jose Ferreira. Knewton has decided to step down from the perch and lay low—for now. He claims to be among the first to coin this approach as “adaptive learning.”

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this week’s dealmaking news, adaptive learning products and technologies provider Knewton raised $25 million. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Knewton Raises $25 Million; Barnes & Noble Education Acquires PaperRater.com appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Specifically, the company announced a new research-and-development hub, with offices in Silicon Valley, London and Bangalore, that will work on applying the latest findings from artificial intelligence and machine learning to new edtech products. Learning is very difficult to measure and to categorize. Education has neither.”

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 16, 2016

public schools to attend an Apple Distinguished Schools Day where Natick shared its blended learning approach with other schools and districts. First, a quick definition: According to the Online Learning Consortium blended learning means “a portion of the traditional face-to-face instruction is replaced by web-based online learning.”.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. No industry analyst we spoke with believes the sale price was anywhere near what Knewton had raised.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2015

Personalized print learning solutions could help close the gap between online, print worlds by letting publishers and teachers tailor materials for students’ individual needs. Students can learn using printed and/or digital adaptive content. Next page: How teachers can use the new solution to target student learning.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Recent dealmaking news includes acquisitions by Apple and Excelligence Learning, and partnership between Pearson and Knewton. Excelligence Learning Acquires Really Good Stuff: Brentwood Associates -backed Excelligence Learning Corp. The Knewton-powered enVisionMATH2.0 Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 3, 2015

Silicon Valley tech company HP and Knewton, the developer of digital learner profiles, are partnering on an effort to bring "adaptive" print products into K-12 schools. Ed-tech Online Learning Publishing adaptivelearning print publishing'

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 19, 2015

Knewton has established partnerships with companies in about 20 countries outside the United States, where demand for ed-tech is growing.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Venture capital deals in the ed-tech market dominated the news over the past week, with companies such as Knewton, SchoolMint, and NuuEd announcing the completion of funding rounds as well as ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 merging with the Y Combinator fund. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator: The Redwood City, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

This marks Wiley’s second courseware purchase in three months, following on its acquisition of the much hyped (and generously funded) Knewton in May. Wiley was pursuing Zyante and Knewton at the same time, claims Matt Leavy, executive vice president of Wiley’s education publishing division.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. million in venture capital.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

The company that set the bar for hyping adaptive-learning technology has had to adapt to new leadership and a new business model. Knewton has raised $25 million in a new funding round—the eighth since it launched in 2008. Source: Knewton From a student’s perspective, Alta works primarily by asking questions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Once known for a learning game, the Redwood City, Calif.-based based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. The company has refocused its business and research around what it calls its “Adaptive Learning Platform.” operations by the end of the year.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

For Brian Fitzgerald, what began as a newborn side project in 2012—when he was working at edtech startup Knewton—has become a fully-grown venture of its own. For anybody who has been a parent, you go through this process: ‘What can I do for my children to give them the best start and learn about the world?”

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

Meanwhile, McGraw-Hill Education and AT&T unveiled plans to offer new resources and opportunities for ed-tech start-ups: McGraw-Hill Education Partners with LearnLaunch: McGraw-Hill Education and Boston-based LearnLaunch are partnering to promote innovation in education through the development of learning technology.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

We invited three guests: Candace Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford Graduate School of Education; Mark Milliron, co-founder and chief learning officer at Civitas Learning; and Kyle Bowen, educational technology services director at Penn State University. Here’s Part 1 if you missed it.)

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It has since added other features, including attendance trackers, gradebooks and presentation tools, to build what it calls an “active learning platform” that lets students interact with their instructors and materials. For classes that adopt Top Hat courseware, students pay $30 per term, or $48 per year, to use the active learning platform.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2019

The gaming giant worked with the Institute of Play to create STEM-focused, hands-on learning experiences that promote collaboration, creativity and problem solving. We later learned that the education publisher paid less than $17 million —much less than the $180 million that Knewton had previously raised. Can You Say Unicorn?

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

But, metaverse technologies are growing quickly and have enormous implications for the future of teaching and learning. ” Also, K20 Educators is a new social learning network where educators can meet in the metaverse (“eduverse”) and learn about fundamental metaverse technologies. And that’s understandable.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2016

Over three years, each institution will receive $515,000 “to adopt, implement and scale use of adaptive courseware in high-enrollment, blended learning courses in multiple departments and programs to improve student success,” according to Meaghan Duff, executive director of APLU’s Personalized Learning Consortium (PLC). Fulcrum Labs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. A strong economy and tight labor market may drive increased corporate spending on learning and development for existing workers. Some companies count their accelerator funding into their subsequent seed rounds. Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

There’s Wiley, better known in academia and research, which recently acquired Knewton and zyBooks , to sell online higher-ed courseware. For openly-licensed materials, there’s Lumen Learning and OpenStax. Aside from the usual suspects, a host of other companies and upstarts now also compete with Top Hat.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Duck Duck Moose is donating its 21 early learning apps to the online provider. Preschool learning is a natural next step for Khan Academy and fits perfectly into our mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere,” said Khan Academy founder Sal Kahn in the statement.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. The other panelists were Peter Greene and Leonie Haimson. ”). .” I’m a folklorist.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

based adaptive learning company Knewton recently announced it was forming a partnership with 17zuoye , which describes itself as the largest online education platform in that country. Knewton Launches Partnerships With Ed. Another China-based company, 17zuoye , raised $100 million. Companies in China, Japan.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

But they often highlight the promise of so-called “adaptive learning” software, in which complex algorithms react to how a student answers questions, and tailor instruction to each student. It’s probably the largest and most rigorous study of adaptive learning to date. What SRI found was sobering.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

David Wiley, chief academic officer of Lumen Learning The company did not specify a timeframe for how frequently it will print new editions. The goal, she says, is to “make our tools more versatile in terms of how we help students learn.” Revel, another line of digital courseware, will soon be released on the Global Learning Platform.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Fresco Capital , GSV Acceleration , Learn Capital , Owl Ventures , Reach Capital and Rethink Education , now count Asian limited partners among investors in their newest funds. “In 9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

Paul Freedman: The innovation for 2018 will be “partnerships,” including partnerships between institutions (like the University Innovation Alliance or the active learning consortium) and partnerships between higher education institutions and for-profit companies (like Lyft and Guild Education). Jeff Selingo: Deeper academic alliances.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview. QTI was created by the IMS Global Learning Consortium, a nonprofit group of education technology developers that maintains standards for how educational data can be captured and shared.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

(We should update that study for a world in which a printed OpenStax math textbook costs $ 58 and aligned online homework costs $ 23 from WebAssign or $ 30 from XYZ or $ 40 from Knewton.) Replacing your old textbook with OER does not guarantee better learning results for students. I could go on. That’s not what open does.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

Then Francisco Partners acquired Renaissance Learning and Discovery Education to enter the K-12 market. But to date, more of the activity has been in higher education and lifelong learning. OnCourse Learning sold some of its financial education assets this year. Many of these deals happened at very attractive EBITDA multiples.

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