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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

Edsurge

In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. Birds of a Feather Smart Sparrow traces its origins to 2004, to the University of New South Wales in Australia, where Ben-Naim, then a Ph.D.

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New book chapter in Multimedia Learning Theory!

Dangerously Irrelevant

I am pleased to announce that my book chapter in Multimedia Learning Theory: Preparing for the New Generation of Students is now available! My chapter is titled Multimedia Learning and the Educational Leader. Hope the book is useful to some of you. Multimedia learning and the educational leader. Happy reading!

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'The Brave Little Surveillance Bear' and Other Stories We Tell About Robots Raising Children

Hack Education

The idea that babies should sleep alone is even newer, reinforced by the rise of the disciplines of psychology and pediatrics in the early 20th century and by the market for parenting books and child-rearing products that developed alongside the “science.” None of these are true. Enhance, not replace. It’s the story B.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

I’ve written two books about “the monsters of ed-tech” and certainly the “rough beasts” could be their kin. Ads for these creatures appeared in the back of comic books, alongside a number of other products promising similar sorts of scientific amazement and technological trickery. What are we promising?