Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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 ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The NAACP endorses OER. It’s a partnership with Microsoft. ” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.”

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Microsoft has released an early access version of its Minecraft : Education Edition. ” In other Microsoft/Minecraft news , the company will donate $10,000 to the Marietta Center for Advanced Academics to build a Minecraft Lab at a local school. ” Upgrades and Downgrades. ” asks Education Dive.

Education 48

Education MOOC Company Report 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. 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.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145