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Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2020
Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. As part of the deal, most of its staff will join Pearson.
Edsurge
JULY 15, 2019
The biggest education company in the world is moving away from a production model that has been one of the main drivers in the rising cost of textbooks. This new development process goes into effect next year, when “we will have a substantial number of titles that we will apply this new model to,” says Pearson CEO John Fallon.
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EdTech Magazine
OCTOBER 16, 2018
“For example, if an individual student’s summative assessment is significantly different from previous test data, a teacher may want to look for underlying issues or problems,” Monica Fuglei writes for education blog Room 241. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about adaptive learning tools teachers are using in their classrooms!
Edsurge
APRIL 12, 2022
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a Boston-based K-12 education content and technology provider, has finished its sale to Veritas Capital, an investing firm which markets itself as seeking to improve education. Obviously, the Veritas deal gives HMH access to capital, which is good for them, Wiley says.
Marketplace K-12
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
Recent dealmaking news includes acquisitions by Apple and Excelligence Learning, and partnership between Pearson and Knewton. acquired the San Francisco-based startup that helps K-12 educators “use data to analyze the past, understand the present, and anticipate the future,” according to the company’s Twitter page.
Edsurge
MAY 1, 2019
Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education plan to join forces in an all-stock merger. Pearson, with a market cap of $8.5 Dr. Nana Banerjee, who holds that title for McGraw-Hill Education, is expected to depart after the deal goes through. McGraw-Hill Education filed for an IPO in 2015 but withdrew three years later.
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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