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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

” He has backed these initiatives financially; and he has backed the publications and conferences that promote these sorts of efforts. Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25 The policy and the discourse. billion in the next five years on education initiatives. Kaltura (video) – $166.1

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Could Remixing Old MOOCs Give New Life to Free Online Education?

Edsurge

Lue will present the project next week at the OpenEdX conference in San Diego. Should such features emerge, that would make the platform a free competitor to systems like Knewton, the for-profit company that was an early player in adaptive learning and now focuses on selling low-cost textbooks built around open content.

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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

Conferences for teachers from coast to coast brim with representatives from the multibillion-dollar technology industry, many of them promising to help teachers provide customized tracks for education. Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it.

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

Conferences for teachers from coast to coast brim with representatives from the multibillion-dollar technology industry, many of them promising to help teachers provide customized tracks for education. Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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