Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. million in venture capital.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 97

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Few technologists have championed the role of big data, personalized learning and many other education buzzwords as vociferously and for as long as Jose Ferreira. Knewton has decided to step down from the perch and lay low—for now. He claims to be among the first to coin this approach as “adaptive learning.”

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Knewton Adaptive Learning Company Education 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

-based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. Of this amount, Woongjin invested $5 million in return for a 10 percent stake in Kidaptive, reports The Korea Herald. The company’s Adaptive Learning Platform works in a number of ways.

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Adaptive Learning Knewton Pearson Company 66

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Recent dealmaking news includes acquisitions by Apple and Excelligence Learning, and partnership between Pearson and Knewton. Bloomberg first reported the purchase on January 28. Utilizing New York-based Knewton’s adaptive learning platform, Pearson says it will update its digital curriculum, enVisionMATH2.0.

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Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Its latest act: making a strategic investment in Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), a San Francisco-based startup that offers open-source tools for building and delivering digital tests. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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Assessment Elsevier Knewton Company 63

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Venture capital deals in the ed-tech market dominated the news over the past week, with companies such as Knewton, SchoolMint, and NuuEd announcing the completion of funding rounds as well as ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 merging with the Y Combinator fund. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator: The Redwood City, Calif.-based

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Knewton Edmentum Company Professional Learning 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. The two companies were also among the 10 companies that raised the most funding in 2017 as well.

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