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K-12 Dealmaking: Apple Acquires Learnsprout; Pearson, Knewton Turn to Adaptive Math

Marketplace K-12

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.

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Going Back to School to Learn About Blended Learning

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

And companies like Knewton are targeting schools taking a personalized approach. From the perspective of administrators, working with startups gives you direct access to the creators of the product who want and need help improving it. For more information visit @ListenCurrent on Twitter.

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

Edsurge

The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed. Department of Education to improve access to open-licensed educational materials, or OER. million in venture capital.

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

and aims to address some of the obstacles to broadband adoption -- in terms of cost, access, relevance, and digital literacy. Google has worked to address many of the accessibility issues, and The Chronicle of HIgher Education reports that the issue was resolved "without any admission of wrongdoing."

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. They’re amazing. Not sure anyone else did.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Techcrunch : “Twitter COO Anthony Noto resigns to become SoFi CEO.” Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.” ” All the better to surveil and control you with… The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Memos from HR.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Neither Knewton nor the Clinton campaign have confirmed the veracity of this leaked speech. Education Politics. ” More via The NYT.