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

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Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018.

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ASU Agrees to Independent Investigation of Its Online Textbook Practices

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He alleged that the university was requiring students in many microeconomics courses to buy a digital homework tool called MindTap so that the university would get for a grant from Cengage, the textbook company that makes it. Goegan’s email went viral and led many students across the country to hail him as a hero on social media.

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Paying to Turn in Homework? ASU Prof's Viral Email Raises Questions About Online Textbook Model

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That charge, by Brian Goegan, clearly struck a nerve with students around the country, leading to memes on social media portraying the professor as a hero fighting corrupt university officials, as well as t-shirts with the slogan: “ my homework was more expensive than this t-shirt.”

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Education Technology Vendors in Higher Ed: Friends or Foes?

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During recent interviews with education technology decision-makers at institutions of higher education, I was struck by the sometimes extreme views formed about vendors during the process of procuring tools to support teaching and learning. Company representatives are anathema to some, yet indispensable partners to others. last month.

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How colleges are adapting to the future of education

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If that seems too far fetched, just think about the number of jobs that was created in the last few decades, like social media manager, drone operator, mobile app developer, system admin etc. More and more companies are focusing on skills rather than degrees to hire talent. Disconnecting degrees from job requirements.

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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He’s worried that, rather than advancing our human potential, many edtech companies and universities are perpetuating the status quo. The LINK Lab is a hub international scholars exploring the digitization of knowledge and learning and how this process impacts education. Our technology is our ideology,” Siemens says.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Education’s Proto-Platforms.