The Hechinger Report
JUNE 9, 2014
February 2009: Bellevue, Washington. When Ben Slivka decided to create his own interactive learning software in 2006, the online options for students, parents, and teachers were pretty bleak. And so, for the same reason Microsoft delayed shifting to the web, the textbook publishers delayed going into online education.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” But these outlandish claims of a powerful piece of learning software never matched what materialized. Apple sneers about this.
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