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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

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We see the e-textbook certainly not as kind of the future adaptive-learning technology product that the industry’s working toward, but it’s certainly a building block. Now beyond the textbook revenue, what we look at is, How do we start to introduce adaptive-learning technologies directly to students? Shannon: Sure.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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No mention that Lexia Learning is owned by Rosetta Stone. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total. The Omidyar Network has invested $850,000 in the “future of tech” research organization Data & Society. Never humanity.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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