Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed. 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.

Pearson 89

Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 89

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Overhauls News Feed to Focus on What Friends and Family Share.” I dunno… Via Techcrunch : “ IBM led on patents in 2017, Facebook broke into top 50 for the first time.” ” Also via Techcrunch : “ Facebook brings Messenger Kids to Fire tablets.”

Education 43

Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Michael Teitelbaum, a scholar on the history of STEM, said in 2014 to an audience of education reporters that the post-war U.S. This represents a 30% year-over-year decrease in the number of female-led companies that raised an A in the Bay Area compared with 2014,” as Female Founders Fund’s Claire Burke wrote in January.

Technology 85

Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. ConnectEDU.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” Via The Verge : “Lawsuit claims Facebook illegally scanned private messages.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook’s Plans to “Personalize” Education. And “personalization” is the underlying promise of the new education software Facebook is itself building. But in this case, they must also sign away their right to sue Facebook or Summit Public Schools in case of a problem (like, say, a data breach).

Technology 73

Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73