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K-12 Dealmaking: McGraw-Hill Ed. and Cengage Make Acquisitions

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McGraw-Hill Education Acquires Redbird Advanced Learning: McGraw-Hill Education has acquired Redbird Advanced Learning, LLC , a digital personalized learning company that offers courses in K-12 math, language arts and writing and virtual professional development programs for educators, according to a statement.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It That’s Rohit Agarwal who headed the K–12 education division after his math company TenMarks was acquired by Amazon in 2013. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) .”

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

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But it did offer courses in real estate, entrepreneurship, and wealth management via, yes, technology-enhanced learning – that is, via Web-based courses. And in 2013, the New York State attorney general filed suit against the business, which had shut its doors two years earlier, accusing it of engaging in illegal, deceptive practices.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2013, 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot launched its MakerBot Academy with a goal “to put a MakerBot Desktop 3D Printer in every school in America.” You can learn anything online, Siegler argued. Altius Education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. Dan Meyer writes “Why Secondary Teachers Don’t Want a GitHub for Lesson Plans,” in a response to Chris Lusto who suggests that we do (or at least “We need GitHub for math curriculum.”) Remember Richard McKenzie?