Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

Founded in 2008, Knewton blazed its way into the edtech industry with bold proclamations about its adaptive-learning technology, which it then licensed to digital curriculum providers. Knewton’s Alta, by contrast, is tapping into openly-licensed, or OER, materials.

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Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 143

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Decrease in State Funding: The government has been scaling back on the funding on college education since the great recession of 2008. Post the recession, states cut inflation-adjusted spending on K–12 education by approximately 4% between 2008 and 2013. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations.

Technology 80

Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Knewton has raised $25 million in a new funding round—the eighth since it launched in 2008. Alta at a Glance With Alta, Knewton aims to combine third-party open educational resources (OER) with assessments and the adaptive-learning technology created by the company to inform how students progress through the content.

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Knewton OER Pearson Adaptive Learning 65

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

And of course there are other vendors, like Elsevier and Wiley (like Jones Soda and RC) and openly-licensed resources known as OER, or open education resources (which are something like a Sodastream homebrew). There’s a surprising amount of momentum behind it,” said Phil Hill, a longtime edtech consultant.

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 113

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

” “Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe,” according to an investor in Edsurge. million project to use open educational resources (OER) to create degree programs at 38 community colleges. Stanford University’s Larry Cuban continues his analysis of behavioral management tool ClassDojo.

Education 53

Education Kaplan Pearson Elsevier 53

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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 by two educators in 2008, Edmodo experienced a number of leadership changes this decade. Aaron Swartz, 2008. Edsurge ’s Tony Wan asked in 2016.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145