Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In 2015, Kidaptive acquired Hodoo English, a language-learning company, in a deal that established Kidadaptive’s Korea headquarter. Once the industry’s poster child for adaptive learning, Knewton boasted working with dozens of publishers, including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. His connections there brought Kidaptive to the Asian market.

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Adaptive Learning Knewton Pearson Company 66

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

For Brian Fitzgerald, what began as a newborn side project in 2012—when he was working at edtech startup Knewton—has become a fully-grown venture of its own. Tinkergarten , which operates a network of outdoor-based classes for young children, has raised $5.4 million in a Series A round led by Owl Ventures.

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Knewton Learning Trends Company 104

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Enuma $4 million (A) 2015 TAL Education, Softbank Ventures Korea Epic! 9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8 edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley. Authess $2.2

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EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 91

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

higher education courseware sales in 2015. Meanwhile, Wiley acquired two startups— Knewton and Zyante —to bolster its courseware offerings. A report by investment bank Macquarie estimated that print titles made up 45 percent of U.S. But publishers are driven by an existential threat, says Wiley.

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Pearson OER Company Knewton 162

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Ever since taking the helm as CEO in 2015, Marten Roorda says ACT has closed 10 deals in which it has invested in, acquired or formed strategic partnerships with educational companies. ACT , the nonprofit best known for its college-readiness test, is undergoing a major transformation. A closed market doesn’t grow,” says Oswald.

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Assessment Elsevier Knewton Company 62

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

billion, this year’s funding total is the second-highest tally, following 2015 (which saw $1.4 There’s a realization with a number of high-profile implosions or corrections, whether it’s AltSchool or Knewton , that have cooled a lot of folk’s appetite,” says Pianko. So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2

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EdTech Pearson Company Knewton 89

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Another dashed hope was the digital tutor made by a New-York-based company called Knewton, which one education consultant rated as “snake oil” in an NPR story in 2015.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 215

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sought to find out, and gave money to 14 colleges and universities to test some of the most popular “adaptive learning” software in the marketplace, including products from a Pearson-Knewton joint venture, from a unit of McGraw-Hill Education called ALEKS and from the Open Learning Initiative.

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Software Study Adaptive Learning Knewton 75

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” And it isn’t simply, as some education reformers like to tell it, that it’s because educators or parents are resistant to change. ”).

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Knewton Education Company Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. “The

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

But it’s down from the record-setting year in 2015 – down by about $1 billion. Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25 can invest in for-profit companies (perhaps these will be characterized as societally responsible companies, but lots of companies claim the mantle of societal responsibility).

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

The company sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015, for example. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

And indeed, according to my calculations too, the amount of money invested in education technology companies is up from this time last year and up from this time in 2015 as well. And 2015 was a record-setting year for ed-tech investment.). Knewton (algorithmic textbooks) – $157.25 Kaltura (video platform) – $165.1

Coursera 57

Coursera Knewton Company Udemy 57

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via KPCC : “ Ref Rodriguez has given up the role of president of the Los Angeles Unified School Board – but is not resigning his seat on the board altogether – one week after the announcement he’d face felony charges for alleged campaign finance violations during his 2015 run for office.”

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Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.” .” That’s Dallas Dance , who was the subject of another story the NYT’s Natasha Singer wrote last year , “ How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom.”

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Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Neither Knewton nor the Clinton campaign have confirmed the veracity of this leaked speech. Education Politics.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

She and her husband also donated $200,000 to AFC’s charitable arm in 2014 and 2015 through the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation. Via Edsurge : “ Pearson , an Investor in Knewton , Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products.”

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Edmodo Education Knewton Pearson 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Despite the press coverage – the funding announcement was made on Oprah – things didn’t really go as planned , as journalist Dale Russakoff has recounted in her 2015 book The Prize. Nevertheless, Knewton claims Knewton’s personalized learning products work.

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

Hack Education

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Thiel joined the tech accelerator program Y Combinator as a partner in 2015. Knewton (adaptive teaching software). Other partners in the firm include Napster co-founder Sean Parker and PayPal execs Ken Howery and Luke Nosek. Thiel and his VC firm Founder’s Fund’s Education Technology Investments (since 2010).

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Technology Education Knewton Company 40

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

“Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Federal obligations to universities for science and engineering declined by 2 percent in the 2015 fiscal year, new federal data show.” ” From the HR Department.

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Testing, Testing… From the OECD : “ PISA 2015 Results.” ” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” ” Knewton has raised some $157 million in venture capital. ( ” Via The Hechinger Report : “ U.S.

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Knewton Education Company MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Why, for example, would Microsoft famously put out a study in 2015 saying that humans’ attention spans are shorter than goldfish’s? He’s an investor in the learn-to-code company Treehouse and an investor in Knewton. Knewton founder Jose Ferreira formerly worked at Kaplan. What’s going on with that story?

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Knewton Company Kaplan Facebook 65

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Private Colleges Had 58 Millionaire Presidents in 2015.” ” Inside Higher Ed on Knewton ’s “pivot.” .” From the HR Department. Pearson has added Snap chairman Michael Lynton to its board of directors. ” The Business of Job Training.

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Lots of folks in ed-tech seem super excited about Trump too, including Knewton’s Jose Ferreira , Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Harold O. . “As Trumplethinskin lets down his hair for tech, shame on Silicon Valley for climbing the Tower in silence,” Recode Kara Swisher writes. ’” From the HR Department.

Education 40

Education Elsevier Report Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

I wrote about his education portfolio – it includes Clever, Knewton, and AltSchool – but I’ll revisit this topic when I tackle ed-tech and surveillance “personalization” in a subsequent article in this series.). “Facebook is well-positioned for a Trump presidency,” I joked in September.

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Technology Education Facebook Company 40