Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Ferreira, who founded the company in 2008, will remain on the company’s board of directors. Ferreira’s decision marks the end of a nearly nine-year run at Knewton, where he strived to build technology to pinpoint what students know, don’t know and should learn next. (He What’s all the buzz about adaptive learning really about?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." Designed to adjust in real-time to each student's prior knowledge and skill attainment, adaptive systems respond to variations in ability and diverse student backgrounds, sensitive to the the unique needs of each learner.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. The company has raised some $77.5

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

.” More on ed-tech funding via Education Week’s Market Brief : “Self-Paced E-Learning Market Evaporating, Report Finds.” ” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Marketing Claims From Adaptive Learning Vendors As Barrier To Adoption.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. Aaron Swartz, 2008. But the “spying” has continued. Chatbot Instructors.

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