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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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Called Aero , the platform has been in the works since 2017. 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 officials did not respond in time for the story.

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Knewton Was Acquired For Less Than $17M, and Former CEO Brian Kibby Has Left

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In its most recent earnings report , which covers the three months ended July 31, 2019, Wiley disclosed that it had “spent $73 million in total on acquisitions in the quarter, including zyBooks and Knewton.” Brian Kibby, who took over from Knewton founder Jose Ferreira as CEO in July 2017, has also moved on.

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Guest post: Using EdTech and AI to reduce social inequality

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An article on the newspaper “The Independent” in 2017 claims that the gap between the number of students from private and public schools to reach university has never been larger. We are also able to offer immediate feedback and a more productive way of learning from their mistakes. The feedback from teachers has also been great.

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Cengage, McGraw-Hill Agree to Merge to Become 2nd Biggest US Textbook Publisher

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The news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal , would create the second-biggest U.S. Last week, Cengage reported $1.5 From that year through 2017, the company invested an estimated $700 million to bolster its education technology offerings, according to The Telegraph. It reported $1.6 billion in 2013.

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Reflections on Being Part of the NMC HE Horizon Report Expert Panel

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involved in putting together the New Media Consortium (NMC) Higher Education Horizon Report for 2018, and we would like to reflect on our experience. In it, Sam explains that anyone can nominate themselves to be on the panel, and she and Bryan talk about the process and the 2017 report. Description of the Process. Definitely.

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2018 Halftime Ka’Ching Report: U.S. Edtech Raises $739M in Venture Funding

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This year’s first-half funding total marks a lull from the same period in 2017, which totaled $887 million spread across 58 deals. The full-year tally for 2017 reached $1.2 There are newly-funded curriculum and courseware services, games, adaptive learning platforms and study tools. By contrast, just one U.S.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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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. Fourth grade ELLs at both schools grew their CAASPP scores by 252% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year. Source: Levered.