Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Where do you hope education technology will go in 2017? Dartmouth College) I took inspiration from Dr. Seuss, and immense liberty in adapting "Oh, The Places You’ll Go" into ‘Oh, The Places Edtech Will Go’ with dedication and thanks to two special six- and ten-year-old girls for their contributions to the rhymes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 206

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2018

From learning analytics tools providing students with instant feedback on their work to virtual reality facilitating field trips to faraway lands to 3D printers filling makerspaces, the classroom looks quite a bit different than it did just five years ago. STEAM Will Continue to Rise. Digital Citizenship Remains a Priority.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 30, 2019

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. Educational Technology and Artificial intelligence are two of these tools, and are already being successfully used by Seneca Learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2017

During recent interviews with education technology decision-makers at institutions of higher education, I was struck by the sometimes extreme views formed about vendors during the process of procuring tools to support teaching and learning. in May 2017. The full report for this study can be found here.

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Technology EdTech Education Company 133

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

For most of its years as a startup, Knewton focused on building adaptive learning technologies that it would license to publishers, before pivoting to sell its own courseware in late 2017. Brian Kibby, who took over from Knewton founder Jose Ferreira as CEO in July 2017, has also moved on.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. And around 2017, publishers including Pearson that once used Knewton began to pull back.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

From that year through 2017, the company invested an estimated $700 million to bolster its education technology offerings, according to The Telegraph. McGraw-Hill Education is currently owned by Apollo Global Management, a private equity firm that bought the company for $2.4 billion in 2013.

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Pearson Company Adaptive Learning Report 167

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

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 124

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

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 126

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Edwin developed sophisticated adaptive learning technology for English as a foreign language,” says Crewkow. With this technology, we can offer a personalized learning plan for each of our students, and we will be able to adapt these learning plans on the go.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S.

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EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 151

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

He founded Lexia with the help of technology expert Dr. Littleton Meeks and Dr. Edwin Cole, a noted neurologist, head of the Reading Clinic at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and founder of several schools for students with dyslexia. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2017

Education Sector 2017-2021 , is based on in-depth market analysis with inputs from industry experts. Educational games that include adaptive learning features give students frequent and timely suggestions for a guided learning experience. A new report predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) in the U.S.

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Adaptive Learning Analysis Trends Industry 85

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

The pace of change, driven predominantly by the rapid encroachment of digital and now AI technologies, has accelerated dramatically. The fast-paced evolution in educational technology and methodologies necessitates a fresh look at what features teachers should exhibit to be effective and relevant in this ever-changing environment.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Andreessen’s definition does begin to get at some of the reasons why platforms have been so appealing to investors – ideologically as much as technologically. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms. But first, a definition (or two) might be helpful.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Private equity’s pursuit to acquire puzzle pieces to build comprehensive educational technology platforms shows no sign of slowing down. The latest move comes from CIP Capital , a New York City-based private equity firm that is investing an undisclosed sum in Carnegie Learning. We’re not trying to smash a bunch of things together.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

“Investors, particularly in China, are looking across the Pacific to check out innovative tools and models that they haven’t explored or implemented back home,” observes Victor Hu, Global Head of Education Technology and Services at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division. Last year, at least 10 U.S.-based Funding Deals for U.S.

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EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 104

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2018

The theme was personalized learning and heading into the conference I anticipated gaining a broader view of technology products promising to provide adaptive learning experiences for all students. Are we losing something by leading these titles with “technology?” Were we using technology?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Its latest act: making a strategic investment in Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), a San Francisco-based startup that offers open-source tools for building and delivering digital tests. The deal marks ACT’s third investment since 2017. A closed market doesn’t grow. You need open standards for everyone to benefit.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2017

As we start 2017, here’s what a couple of educators across the interwebs are stoked about. DoodleMaths : Neil Jarrett, a year 6 teacher and math coordinator in Bangkok, Thailand, inspired us to include this tool this week after listing it as one of his favorite adaptive learning apps. Did you miss our top S’Cool Tools of 2016 ?

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Tools Case Study Exercises Adaptive Learning 60

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

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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EdTech Report Company Industry 69

Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

David Samuelson, Age of Learning's head of global schools, told EdSurge in an interview that the product (currently geared at Pre-K, kindergarten and first grade) is essentially the ABCMouse consumer product—a collection of multi-subject learning activities—with all the necessary K-12 add-ons, like curriculum and professional development.

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Microsoft OER Digital Citizenship EdTech 113

eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

In demonstration of this theory, one study found that students who receive adaptive testing paired with individualized instruction show significantly better performance than their peers who receive more generalized instruction (Huey-Min, 2017). #3: Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 20(1), 61–72. Luyten, H., &

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Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2018

It reduced its developmental course offerings to only one required reading course that is paired with the college-level course, and two self-paced math pathways that use adaptive-learning technology along with guided instruction from a faculty member in the classroom. There were physical changes, too. million annually.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2017

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. The webcast will take place on Wednesday, January 25, 2017, at 6:00 p.m.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

billion in revenue from higher ed courseware sales in 2018 came from digital, and that digital rental sales grew by 25 percent over 2017. And the company envisions that all of its higher ed digital offerings will be part of its cloud-based Global Learning Platform, which he describes as “the adaptive-learning engine of the company.”

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Pearson OER Company Knewton 167

Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

The 2018 Horizon Report , started by the New Media Consortium in 2017, was completed and published by EDUCAUSE this week. Campus Technology offers a nice intro , so I’ll focus here on my very quick responses. Interdisciplinary studies have been emerging since, well, disciplines; new, technology-driven fields are appearing now.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. In 2017, Top Hat nabbed $7.5 But some providers of OER still ask for fees in return, and that has advocates concerned.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2017

— Mark Corbett Wilson (@MCorbettWilson) June 29, 2017. Adaptive learning and analytics – Who is the market leader in Adaptive learning and analytics driven learning (sriram) . Or, perhaps, are they force fitting the current LMS to be their CBE LMS? . link] #FTTE. Have at it, friends!

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 13, 2017

This post is co-authored with Sheila MacNeill ( @sheilmcn ) is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Learning at Glasgow Caledonian University. She is also the current Chair of ALT (Association of Learning Technology). How will the report editors/writers reconcile the key technology trends with the looming challenges?

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Report Trends Adaptive Learning Technology 61

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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

adaptive technology. These digital tools help students master course learning goals by using data generated from students’ interactions with the adaptive software to predict what students should view or do next online. Manuela Ekowo: What made CPCC begin using adaptive technology?

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Learning OER Software Course 60

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 9, 2017

Personalized Learning and the Tech to Make It Happen SXSWedu 2017 Panel One of the most promising ideas in education right now is personalized learning—providing instruction that is meaningful and contextualized for every student. What does personalized learning mean? We over-invest in the tool and the technology.

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Personalized Learning Learning EdTech Data 45

Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2017

— Mark Corbett Wilson (@MCorbettWilson) June 29, 2017. Adaptive learning and analytics – Who is the market leader in Adaptive learning and analytics driven learning (sriram) . Or, perhaps, are they force fitting the current LMS to be their CBE LMS? . link] #FTTE. PS: two more reflections.

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Bryan Alexander

AUGUST 17, 2018

The 2018 Horizon Report , started by the New Media Consortium in 2017, was completed and published by EDUCAUSE this week. Campus Technology offers a nice intro , so I’ll focus here on my very quick responses. Interdisciplinary studies have been emerging since, well, disciplines; new, technology-driven fields are appearing now.

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Report Trends Robotics OER 40

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Winners will be notified in early September and announced at OLC Accelerate 2017 , which takes place in Orlando, November 15–17.) Peak Mathematics uses Pearson’s MyMathTest, an online homework tool that has adaptive technology that personalizes the content and pacing for each student. The deadline for.

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