Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed.

Pearson 97

Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 97

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. Knewton’s CEO Kibby formerly served as president of McGraw-Hill’s Higher Education Group.)

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Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 137

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Public Interest Research Group, each new edition of a textbook cost 12 percent more than the previous one. It’s about time that legacy publishers are starting to adapt their model for the digital world,” says Nicole Allen, the director of open education for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.

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Pearson OER Company Knewton 163

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. I’m not sure it was, but then again, understanding the LMS industry is really their thing and not mine (something for which I am eternally grateful). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) Subscribe to their blog.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

Luminaries in the edtech industry, including Richard Culatta (ISTE CEO and former director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. 2:00PM: TrumpED: How Will #45 Change the Learning and Work Landscape?

Coursera 70

Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 70

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Ref Rodriguez, like most of the current members of the LAUSD school board, has strong financial backing from the charter school industry. ” The center, as the name suggests, does legal work for civil rights and low-income groups. ” Via Getting Smart : “ Virtual and Augmented Reality in Personalized Learning.”

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145