Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. Founded in 2011, Smart Sparrow had raised about $23.5 million in venture capital.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 96

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Now one of its most high-profile content partners and investors, Pearson , is pulling back. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings. The retrenchment delivers a setback to Knewton, for whom Pearson was the first—and most visible—partner.

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Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 77

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

From 2011 to 2014, U.S. In Pearson’s preliminary 2018 results released in February, the publisher said it expects flat revenue or even a 5 percent decline for its U.S. higher education courseware business despite gains in digital—all because of secondary textbook market’s impact. classrooms from kindergarten through high school.”

Chegg 156

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 156

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And, there seems little political will within the education system for a balanced consideration of potential cons to data collection in the event that modern digital learning innovations might be ‘good for [some] kids’ or surveillance might prevent ‘something bad from happening.’

EdTech 150

EdTech Software Facebook Data 150

Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

And, there seems little political will within the education system for a balanced consideration of potential cons to data collection in the event that modern digital learning innovations might be ‘good for [some] kids’ or surveillance might prevent ‘something bad from happening.’

EdTech 150

EdTech Software Facebook Data 150

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

FreshGrade was co-founded in 2011 by Lane Merrifield and Steve Wandler. Million: Nearpod , an ed-tech platform that aims to help K-12 teachers find, create and distribute digital learning experiences, raised $9.2 The Series A round brings FreshGrade’s total funding to $15.9 Nearpod Raises $9.2 and James L.

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