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

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Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed. 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.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

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And there are plenty of lessons for us to learn about technology-enhanced learning from Sea Monkeys. 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. Suddenly it’s not merely a matter of parlor tricks; it’s the presidency.