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AI, Personalized Learning Are a Dynamic Duo for K–12 Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

New school or district wide initiatives, including new software. . Thank you, adaptive software. . Adaptive Software Refines Personalized Learning. Currently, the primary ways adaptive software adapt are with content, assessment , and sequence. . This is where adaptive software and AI fall short. New students.

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Who is the Theranos of Education?

Edsurge

Throughout the years of coverage, journalists, bloggers and commentators alike have each taken to their respective channels and platforms to identify their own Theranos stories in different sectors, while investors reported that likely half of other startups prove eerily similar to the rise-and-fall storyline.

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‘Faculty Information System’ Developer, Interfolio Acquired for $110M+

Edsurge

Behind the scenes, there’s accreditation reporting, tracking and organizing work around tenure, plus managing and supporting students while staying on top of new technologies and instructional practices. based Interfolio aims to help simplify the workflow for faculty with software it dubs “faculty information systems.” Washington D.C.-based

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China’s NetDragon to Acquire Edmodo for $137.5 Million

Edsurge

Edmodo was started in 2008 by a teacher and IT support person as a “Facebook-like” community aimed at connecting educators with students and with one another. Edmodo brings a vibrant social community to the company, which is amassing education assets that already include both hardware and software.

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New Ownership for an LMS Giant: Private Equity Firm to Buy Instructure for $2 Billion

Edsurge

when it comes to the LMS software that serves as the virtual classroom, online gradebook and other functions used in just about every college course these days. Instructure is currently a public company, and its leaders say a move to private ownership will allow it to invest more in its software and potentially make more acquisitions. “We

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Teachers could retire in droves by the time schools reopen

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. The causes of our impending recession are more akin to what happened in the Gulf South after Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005 than to the housing crisis, sparked in 2008: An unprecedented, singular natural disaster forced multiple cities to shut down schools and businesses for months.

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School Work and Surveillance

Hack Education

For a long time, arguably the best known anti-cheating technology was the plagiarism detection software TurnItIn. So they turned some of their research on pattern-matching of brainwaves to create a piece of software that would identify patterns in texts. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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