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K-12 Dealmaking: McGraw-Hill Ed. and Cengage Make Acquisitions

Marketplace K-12

. “The Redbird acquisition allows us to expand our portfolio of adaptive learning products as we continue our transformation from a textbook publisher to a learning science company.”. Beijing-based Zuoyebang is a mobile study platform that offers homework assistance for primary and secondary school students.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It Pearson is Not a Platform. Students will receive iPads.

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Technology Tools Used in Teaching and Learning

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Online collaboration tools, such as Google Workspace and Microsoft Teams, empower students to collaborate on projects and share resources in real time. Educational software, including interactive simulations and virtual labs, brings abstract concepts to life, enhancing experiential learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. Apple sneers about this.

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