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. Kibby has big claims of his own, however, when it comes to how aggressively Knewton plans to compete with major textbook publishers.
EdTechTeacher
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
It lives in a network of interconnected computers and includes a range of free, accessible, and decentralized games, communities, and venues for interaction. In addition, Eduverse provides access to educational VR content and offers the “first educational VR theme park.” What is the metaverse?
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Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2017
9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8 edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.) edtech startups.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Kyle Bowen: It is important for institutions to begin to develop these kinds of capabilities, and a lot of that starts with creating an ecosystem for data at your university—being able to access these data, understand where it’s coming from and what the actual data elements mean. I think they’re going to happen simultaneously.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says.
Hack Education
MAY 19, 2017
The open-access publisher PLOS has a new CEO : Alison Mudditt. Via Edsurge : “ Pearson , an Investor in Knewton , Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Via The Verge : “Elon Musk-backed OpenAI is teaching robots how to learn just like humans do.”
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.
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