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Real Questions About Artificial Intelligence in Education

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It’s how Google solved the AlphaGo challenge. Blum: At ACT (which acquired OpenEd),we’re focused on the question of: If you’ve identified the learning gap, what’s the best instructional material to help the student? Not just ACT material; we want to give you the best instructional resource we can find.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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The company was renamed “Amplify.” This “Google and good luck” approach throws a lot of options, confusion, and competing agendas at teachers. Five years later, Berger led a management buyout of the company, backed by Emerson Collective. In some ways, Amplify has returned to its roots.

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The Business of Education Technology

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Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”