Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Founded in 2011, Smart Sparrow had raised about $23.5 Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. million in venture capital.

Pearson 96

Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 96

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

There was a lot of discussion at OpenEd17 about the relationship between OER and value-added services like platforms. Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. The first has to do with capacity.

OER 60

OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

The publisher co-led the New York City-based company’s $33 million Series D round in October 2011, hailed at the time as a strategic investment and a major vote of confidence in Knewton’s potential. Pearson’s decision to pull back from its Knewton partnership coincides with a broader retreat across the entire company.

Knewton 76

Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 76

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011. It has been mildly entertaining to see many of the MOOC companies making ''discoveries'' of things that we have known for ages (eg that students require support).

MOOC 28

MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

She was a member of the Freedom to Read Foundation Board from 2009-2011. Prior to joining the School as Director, she worked in the Silicon Valley for more than a decade at major technology companies: Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. Nigel is also a fellow at the Center for the Advancement Public Action at Bennington College.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

She was a member of the Freedom to Read Foundation Board from 2009-2011. Prior to joining the School as Director, she worked in the Silicon Valley for more than a decade at major technology companies: Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. Nigel is also a fellow at the Center for the Advancement Public Action at Bennington College.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference OER Trends 28

Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 25, 2011

Here is the first part of my end of year retrospective on the top ten (actually eleven) places I visited in 2011, and the great people I met. I also had the distinct pleasure of meeting up with prolific Twitter activist Paulo Simoes for the first time, and also spent some time with charismatic OER guru Wayne Mackintosh.

Conference 50

Conference OER Meeting Twitter 50