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

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Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. In 2014, the Gates Foundation awarded the company a $4.5

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

Hack Education

I’m not sure those in education technology always want to talk about this consumer framework – we like to pretend we use technology because it will “improve teaching and learning,” not because we’ve been heavily marketed certain products and certain stories about the necessity of our technology consumption.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

It’s also a matter of a $40 million civil suit against Trump University, a business that Donald Trump and two associates founded in 2004. But it did offer courses in real estate, entrepreneurship, and wealth management via, yes, technology-enhanced learning – that is, via Web-based courses. How much of ed-tech is humbug?