Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

But without proof, Monroe, vice president of academic innovation and support at Ivy Tech Community College, and her colleagues are searching in the dark to find the right tools that faculty can use to improve learning outcomes for the more than 200,000 students in the Indiana community college system. Does it mean adaptive software?

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2016

Babson Survey , the proportion of academic leaders who report that online learning is critical for long-term institutional growth has grown from 49 percent in 2002 to 71 percent in 2015, and institutions are investing in edtech products to support digital learning. An evaluation of adaptive learning products by.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

According to our data, colleges whose students use the software have seen, on average, a 3.25 D2L, provider of a learning management system, was started by a student at the University of Waterloo. Adaptive learning tool Smart Sparrow traces its origins to a graduate student in Australia.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Goegan also argued that he was forced to fail 30 percent of his students, which he said university officials wanted so that an adaptive-learning project being developed for other sections of the economics course would be made to look good by comparison. On Amazon, the book alone sells for $148 without the MindTap software.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. But as some disappointed investors have learned last year, the actual market value and performance behind “unicorns” may be as illusory as their nickname. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. A good example of this is the reporting our editorial team did last fall at Educause , where they chronicled everything from a “smorgasbord of hardware and software” to the emerging trends and conversations around digital literacy.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

He rolled out the course software and it provided quick feedback for the students in his courses, who were able to complete those courses at a much higher rate than when Willem was teaching everyone individually.” 2016 Institutional Awards. 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards. Apply here. Bay Path University. Fisher College.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. “I never want to make claims that games writ-large for any kid—under any circumstances—teach these sort of skills.”

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

It looked at college courses that are using so-called “adaptive learning” software as an enhancement to blended courses. NPR Ed has covered adaptive learning before. ” The results in this study were a bit more prosaic. .” “I asked, ‘Are you going to keep going?

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. Recently I wrote " What If Your Co-Teacher is a Computer?

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

Frontline Acquires Teachscape: K-12 software provider Frontline Technologies has acquired Teachscape , a professional growth solutions provider for K-12 and higher education. The program will begin with selected ventures in May 2016. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. In a recent statement, Malvern, Pa.-based

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Software also collects information on students all by itself. Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton , said in a 2012 speech that his “adaptive learning” platform, used by 10 million students globally, collects 5 to 10 million data points per student per day — down to how many seconds it takes you to answer that algebra problem.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 23, 2016

@mburtis ’s vision for Domain of One’s Own (and why i say it’s the most important ed-tech we have) #digped pic.twitter.com/KbHu8PZnCb — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 12, 2016. You (likely) do not own the software you use (unless it’s open source); it’s been licensed to you. What do you own? Your degree?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

For example, a faculty member in our writing department argued that if one of his goals for students was to get them to think in new and different ways, software that accommodates them at every turn works against that instead of in favor of it. Adaptive learning is not right for every situation.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

“The San Francisco-based software company will continue a four-year partnership with San Francisco Unified School District. Data and “Research” My latest calculations on ed-tech venture capital : “Ed-Tech Startup Funding Data: August 2016.” million, $6 million goes to San Francisco and $2.5

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Billion Federal Block Grant Makes Ed-Tech Training Higher Priority Than Software, Devices.” ” According to a report from Quality Matters and Eduventures ( as covered by Campus Technology ), “ Adaptive Learning , Learning Analytics Are Most Wanted Tech for Online Programs.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

” “Mixing Automation and a Human Touch, New Software Helps Keep Students ‘ On Task ’,” says Edsurge. “ AI Learns Gender and Racial Biases from Language” says Jeremy Hsu in IEEE Spectrum. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. Read Mindstorms. There were many remembrances penned for Seymour this year.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. 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.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

From the press release : “ Knewton Launches Alta, Fully Integrated Adaptive Learning Courseware for Higher Education, Putting Achievement in Reach for Everyone.” ” There is no mention here about mind-reading robo tutors in the sky , but there are some questionable claims about what the software can do.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” CSS pic.twitter.com/JYyabJDAS3 — Owen Williams ⚡️ (@ow) June 6, 2016. Heard there was an intruder in my sons school last night.wasn't so angry when I found out who it was @thereaIbanksy pic.twitter.com/pC8WTo7v83 — Rebecca Radford (@RebeccaRadford7) June 6, 2016. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Parla.ai – “No need to spend money on teachers – I’ll help you learn English effectively and for free!” “This Machine Learning-Powered Software Teaches Kids To Be Better Writers,” Fast Company claims. No, actually. I bet it doesn’t. ” Via Campus Technology : “2.1

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

From Course Report : “the 2016 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study.” ” Among the findings: “In 2016, the sheer number of bootcamp providers has grown to 91, compared to 67 last year.” “ 14 projects win 2016 Knight News Challenge on Libraries.” Learn-to-code startup Piper has raised $2.1

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