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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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Founded in 2011, Smart Sparrow had raised about $23.5 In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. It’s a conduit for staying abreast of the latest educational trends, resources, and technologies. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. Madda et al.,

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice."

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning? Yes, I know it''s not technology news, but somehow it''s indicative enough of other trends that I''m including it here. No need to be a "professional scientist" in order to join.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million.

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Education Technology and the Ideology of Personalization

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.” Some 20 Facebook engineers work on the software, and according to The Washington Post , the student information it tracks and stores is not housed on Facebook servers, although Facebook does have access to the data. in 2011, a PR stunt that the company hoped would demonstrate how well it could handle Q&A.