Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

Knewton: All Talk, Little Evidence While AltSchool spent millions of dollars, few experts I talked to described the microschool model as having negative impacts on student learning. Knewton needed to keep all students inside their system, for all subjects, sucking up all the data and finding ways to utilize it to improve learning.

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iLearn Technology

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The Woot Math system works on the web, iPads, or Chromebooks seamlessly…it truly is a great option for any classroom! Sign up TODAY, Woot Math is totally free for the 2015-2016 school year! It is super user-friendly, and gives teachers the ability to customize for each student in the class as a starting point.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Throughout the past decade, Knewton ’s adaptive learning technology has been backed by some of the biggest names in the both the publishing and venture capital community. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings. Ferraris require more maintenance.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

The heads of the two companies knew each other, and last year MyBuddy started to build its own language-learning curriculum to add to its offerings. Edwin developed sophisticated adaptive learning technology for English as a foreign language,” says Crewkow. As children progress, they accumulate points and digital rewards.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Some highlights: Fourth graders at Salt Creek improved their CAASPP scores by 137% of the state average in the 2016/2017 school year—their first year using the platform—and by 172% the following year. Request a demo of Levered's System. Pilot Study Brief from Digital Promise. Source: Levered.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Some highlights: Fourth graders at Salt Creek improved their CAASPP scores by 137% of the state average in the 2016/2017 school year—their first year using the platform—and by 172% the following year. Request a demo of Levered's System. Pilot Study Brief from Digital Promise. Source: Levered.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

That raises the question: is the move to digital homework systems creating a new kind of digital divide at colleges? Textbook companies defend their new model, arguing that digital titles help students learn better than past methods and are sold for far less than traditional textbooks.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

In contrast, 21st-century learning is characterized by: Personalized and Adaptive Learning: Tailoring education to individual student needs, abilities, and interests. Project-Based and Experiential Learning: Engaging students in real-world projects and hands-on experiences that make learning relevant and exciting.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Around 200 companies applied for the five spots in the 2016 cohort. Here are the five companies in the 2016 cohort: Lrnr : An adaptive-learning platform that uses open educational resources (OER). Educators can customize courses and monitor student progress.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Alternatively, your child could spend anywhere between one to six days per week at your local Amazon Learning Center—possibly branded to match the local public school district’s name and colors—where they get to choose from hundreds, no, thousands of courses to build a personalized schedule.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Those who have played the game of telephone will know this is a process guaranteed to introduce error into the system. 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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EdTech Course Adaptive Learning Software 68

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The old system was also hurting students eligible for financial aid, says Texarkana College President James Henry Russell, because the previously paper process made it difficult to keep track of students, and many fell through the cracks. There were physical changes, too. million annually.

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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? Revolutionizing education is neither wise nor feasible.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Its K-8 adaptive learning and diagnostic product i-Ready is used by over 4 million students, and a 2016 study found that it was an exceptionally accurate predictor of student performance on Common Core Assessments in New York State. Blackboard Inc.,

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Education LMS Moodle EdTech 78

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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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

But make no mistake: game design is very important for learning. A project of the Institute of Play, Quest, as the school is known, is an Innovation Zone (or iZone) school, itself a project of the city’s public school system. We expect games to be spaces where we fail,” Salen says. When we talk about skill development, it takes time.

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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.

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Tools Outcomes Pearson Software 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

He described the collective ability to learn without direct guidance as an example of “emergent behavior in a self-organizing system.”. He concluded his keynote with a calling for learning to be designed around three principles: a curriculum of questions, not facts; a pedagogy that encourages collaboration and use of the internet; and.

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Libraries LMS Data Blackboard 60

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

This year’s Brightspace Excellence Awards , announced at FUSION 2016 by global learning technology provider D2L, recognized the promise of online learning and its ability to connect more and more people to high-quality educational programs. 2016 Brightspace Awards for Excellence Winners.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Utilizing New York-based Knewton’s adaptive learning platform, Pearson says it will update its digital curriculum, enVisionMATH2.0. curriculum will initially be introduced in grade 3-5 classrooms in fall of 2016, followed by expansions into other grades in 2017. The Knewton-powered enVisionMATH2.0

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

By verbally responding to a prompt, students are able to become the teachers and are much more likely to be able to transfer what they have learned (Rittle-Johnson, 2006). Even when compared to written responses, students of all ages are better able to retain what they have learned when they explain it verbally (Hoogerheide et al.,

Learning 52

Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. The back channel in the classroom is powerful and your LMS (Learning Management System) may serve this quite well.

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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.” ” Via Edsurge : “ Adam Bellow Becomes CEO of Breakout EDU to Spread Gamified Learning.”

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Coursera Education E-rate Company 60

Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

Moran said she is most proud of the work Albemarle has done “to create seven pathways to learning that open doors of opportunity for every child.” AASA will announce the Superintendent of the Year in February 2016. ” Webb and his team do not keep these lessons to themselves, however.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. Why Don’t All School Systems Do This?”

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

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. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

Republican lawmakers back bill that would substantially cut tuition and revenue , and seek more student diversity, at five system campuses, four of which are minority-serving institutions.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Remember what I’ve said: watch the student loan space.).

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

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. Copyright 2016 NPR. “And it’s not even close.”

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Data Knewton Report Software 28

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Via Mother Jones : “How the Justice Department Is Trying to Dismantle Georgia ’s Segregated Special-Education System.” Data and “Research” My latest calculations on ed-tech venture capital : “Ed-Tech Startup Funding Data: August 2016.” ” Presidential Campaign Politics.

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Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Obama administration’s Education Department failed to consider key evidence when it reviewed and ultimately terminated its recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools in 2016, a federal judge ruled late Friday.” “ Are K–12 data systems ready for AI?

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Education Robotics iPad Company 45

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Historically black universities have been dropped from a controversial North Carolina bill slashing tuition at certain institutions to $500, but worries about the legislation’s effects remain high at two universities still facing tuition cuts – and across the state system.”

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Education MOOC Company Report 48

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. Similarly, you (likely) do not own the operating system that powers your computer; you’ve paid for a license there as well. What do you own?

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Software Data Company Libraries 40

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

" It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” “Can States Tackle Police Misconduct With Certification Systems?” The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. ” asks The Atlantic.

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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. What had started as a subversive instrument of change was neutralized by the system and converted into an instrument of consolidation. Read Mindstorms.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “The University of California system has agreed to pay $1.15 Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” ” Via The Verge : “ Oculus ordered to pay $500 million in ZeniMax lawsuit.” " No s**t.

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Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40