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

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On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. In recent years, Dror-Naim says his team has been building the next iteration of its adaptive course-creation tool. Called Aero , the platform has been in the works since 2017.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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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. Multimedia learning and the educational leader. Jenlink & B. Knight (Eds.), Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

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

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To borrow from “ Norman’s Law of eLearning Tool Convergence ,” no matter the stories we tell about innovation, no matter the predictions we make about disruption, in time everything in ed-tech becomes indistinguishable from the learning management system. None of these are true. Enhance, not replace. It’s the story B.

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What's on the Horizon (Still, Again, Always) for Ed-Tech

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The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative have released the latest NMC Horizon Report for Higher Education. Of course, the Horizon Report dates back to 2004, so this is only a partial look back at its own history. Adaptive Learning Technologies. Mobile Learning. Blended Learning Designs.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

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This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here. To devise new rules.