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

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The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed.

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The Sky is Falling, or is it?

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The other obvious lesson is that if students are accessing technology to assess and learn and create content, then at the very least, educators need an awareness of that technology their students are using. People are using it professionally to do many things in industry and business settings. The website reportedly sees 1.5

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Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020

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If e-learning came to life as a method to augment face-to-face learning, it is now an approach to education that is bigger than the traditional method it was meant to support. Learning and teaching through an online medium has become very popular over the last years and there are no signs of slowing down. Wrapping up.

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2018 Halftime Ka’Ching Report: U.S. Edtech Raises $739M in Venture Funding

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edtech industry, that’s no big deal: In the first six months of 2018, 62 companies raised $739 million in venture capital. There are newly-funded curriculum and courseware services, games, adaptive learning platforms and study tools. So far, there have been fewer home-run funding deals than last year. But for the U.S.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. Not all acquisitions were cheered on by investors, though.

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Empowering Teachers as Learning Engineers (Without Adding More Work)

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When we reflect on how the pandemic disrupted education, we’ll think about the resiliency of our teachers, who were challenged like never before to connect with students in new ways to keep learning going in the face of nationwide school closures. The industry has a role to play as well. But it hasn’t come without a cost.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

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Although AI is not new in other industries, it’s still an emerging trend in education and we are finally allowing ourselves a glimpse of hope, skepticism and wonderment. The growing space industry requires a diverse workforce beyond the conventional role of engineering.

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