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

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Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018.

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

Hack Education

That is the purpose of the Horizon Report, of course: it’s a story about the future. No doubt, today’s technology companies view students and schools as a largely untapped market. Companies always hope they’ll be able to make headlines at CES, and Aristotle received a fair amount of attention this year.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

That pronoun “we,” of course, is used in turn both broadly and narrowly, to include and exclude. Yeats’ poem “Easter, 1916,” of course – but opted, thanks to Donald Trump, to invoke a different, more apocalyptic Yeats. So the title of this talk is “The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech” instead.