Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Venture capital deals in the ed-tech market dominated the news over the past week, with companies such as Knewton, SchoolMint, and NuuEd announcing the completion of funding rounds as well as ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 merging with the Y Combinator fund. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator: The Redwood City, Calif.-based

Knewton 40

Knewton Edmentum Company Professional Learning 40

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 19, 2015

Knewton has established partnerships with companies in about 20 countries outside the United States, where demand for ed-tech is growing.

Knewton 40

Knewton Company Online Learning Assessment 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers.

EdTech 139

EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 139

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It The company has raised some $77.5 ” But what did Facebook do?

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Related: Despite its high-tech profile, Summit charter network makes teachers, not computers, the heart of personalized learning. Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it.

Trends 40

Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

He’s a partner at Founders Fund, which has invested in Knewton, AltSchool, Uversity, ResearchGate, If You Can, Upstart, Declara, and Affirm. “ Blackboard ’s Online Learning Trend Report ” by Blackboard. But that’s all ad hominem and is irrelevant to the future of education.

Education 52

Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52