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Smart Sparrow Raises $4 Million to Help Teachers—Not Tools—Drive Adaptive Learning

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market in 2014, Smart Sparrow’s offerings have increasingly been described as “adaptive courseware.” Yet Dror Ben-Naim cringes—just a little—every time he hears that comparison. Adaptive’ is just one feature of good learning design,” the company’s founder and CEO tells EdSurge. Letting Humans Drive Adaptivity.

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

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By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. Coursera, Andela, Degreed, A Cloud Guru and Lambda School all offer courses tailored for people who want to pick up new professional skills (usually involving programming and computer science). came from two open online course platforms.

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State-of-the-art education software often doesn’t help students learn more, study finds

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But they often highlight the promise of so-called “adaptive learning” software, in which complex algorithms react to how a student answers questions, and tailor instruction to each student. Most of the universities combined the software with human instruction, but a few courses were delivered entirely online.

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

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Goegan also argued that he was forced to fail 30 percent of his students, which he said university officials wanted so that an adaptive-learning project being developed for other sections of the economics course would be made to look good by comparison.

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What do kids need to know before kindergarten?

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Using Brainscape’s early childhood education flashcards —which has a whole collection of decks dedicated to reading skills—to help your kid practice words, sounds, letters, and comparisons! And once you’ve shown them how to use Brainscape, this learning can take place anytime and anywhere.

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The Connections Between Computer Use and Learning Outcomes in Students

MindShift

It looked at college courses that are using so-called “adaptive learning” software as an enhancement to blended courses. NPR Ed has covered adaptive learning before. In the algebra study, Northwestern’s Heissel says she had no information on which students took the course in which setting.

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How to pass the WSET Diploma D3 exam on the Wines of the World

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Affectionately dubbed the “Mother-of-all exams” by some wine nerds, the WSET Diploma’s third module (D3) on the principal still wines of the world is the Olympus Mons of the WSET solar system, making the other modules look like mildly inflamed pimples in comparison. Plus, we’ve formatted them for optimal learning.

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