Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. And even before the management change, the company had quietly started building a huge library of courses bolted to its adaptive engine.

Knewton 111

Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 111

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). A computing platform is the stage on which computer programs can run. Not sure anyone else did.)

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Via The Guardian : “US library to enforce jail sentences for overdue books.” ” That’s the Athens-Limestone public library in Alabama (and that’s completely f *d up). Knewton has partnered with WebAssign. .” Via Boston.com : “How a state senate primary became a charter school proxy war.”

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Geek Dad : “Little Robot Friends Teach Kids to Code With Empathy.” Paying taxes.

Education 44

Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44

Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

” The New York Times looks at “ anti-tax fervor ” in southern Oregon , which will result in the one public library in Roseburg closing its doors. The open-access publisher PLOS has a new CEO : Alison Mudditt. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. .” Via The News & Observer : “At 3 a.m.,

Edmodo 45

Edmodo Education Knewton Pearson 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” Um, they do.)

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Via Pacific Standard : “Why Is the FCC Considering Cutting Broadband Access for Students?” ” Via CJR : “‘This is unprecedented’: Public colleges limiting journalist access.” ” Inside Higher Ed on Knewton ’s “pivot.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

Kaplan 50

Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50