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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. For Nelson, this sale marks its first step in its “strategic decision to withdraw from the post-secondary market,” it said in an announcement. Estimated revenue for the U.S. billion in 2018.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015. A computing platform is the stage on which computer programs can run.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. “And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.”. “I

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