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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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There’s Wiley, better known in academia and research, which recently acquired Knewton and zyBooks , to sell online higher-ed courseware. In 2007, Thomson’s higher-ed publishing division was acquired for $7.75 Aside from the usual suspects, a host of other companies and upstarts now also compete with Top Hat. billion in 2018.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. Socorro Dove.

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