Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). There’s Wiley, better known in academia and research, which recently acquired Knewton and zyBooks , to sell online higher-ed courseware.

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Knewton Company OER Pearson 137

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 217

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

Terah Crews: Active-learning classroom technology. With voice and video monitoring devices becoming ubiquitous in American homes, technology companies will take increasing steps to collaborate with institutions to adapt voice assistants and develop new devices for active learning classrooms.

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OER Knewton Kaplan Company 101

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

It can also come in handy for teachers: We had a hackathon at MIT and all the classrooms have cameras (and students know that). What does this look like in the classroom? Can adaptive platforms (such as ALEKS or Knewton) help students learn the facts and enable the teachers to guides? Will it free up the day? from Shivon Zillis.

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Education Knewton Data Industry 135

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sought to find out, and gave money to 14 colleges and universities to test some of the most popular “adaptive learning” software in the marketplace, including products from a Pearson-Knewton joint venture, from a unit of McGraw-Hill Education called ALEKS and from the Open Learning Initiative.

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Software Study Adaptive Learning Knewton 75

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. The other panelists were Peter Greene and Leonie Haimson. ”).

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Knewton Education Company Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning looks different in every classroom, but common features include letting students set their own goals, study the curriculum online at their own pace, or decide when to take tests. The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 100

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton , said in a 2012 speech that his “adaptive learning” platform, used by 10 million students globally, collects 5 to 10 million data points per student per day — down to how many seconds it takes you to answer that algebra problem. Software also collects information on students all by itself.

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Data Knewton Report Software 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25 One could look at companies that made major shuffles in the executive boardrooms: a new CEO at Coursera , the departure of Coursera’s chief product officer , a new CEO at Knewton , the departure of Altschool’s COO , for instance. Kaltura (video) – $166.1

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The Classroom 2.0 The recordings of recent FutureofEducation.com shows are posted: David Loertscher on Library 2.0 , Gina Bianchini on Mightybell , Tim Wilson on Redirect , Peter Cookson on a Children''s Education Bill of Rights , and an iPads in the Classroom report. Details and log-in links here.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

He in essence suggested that because the curriculum wars have been decided more or less empirically, that people bent on disrupting the classroom and the factory-model education system were doing so under faulty assumptions about how students learn.

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Personalized Learning Learning Education Competency Based Learning 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Panelist Janel Grant, a software engineer and former teacher, pointed out that this vision of machine learning in education is rarely what plays out in the classroom. Machine learning would be great for leveling my classroom library. The data is emerging naturally through homework, through games and play.” Or does it?)

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Pearson Knewton Education Learning 156

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

There’s an understanding – even if it’s a disgruntled one – among those in the classroom and those making procurement decisions of what the LMS is for, what it should do, and so on. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.).

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Classroom 2.0 EVENTS This Thursday, as part of the Future of Education interview series , my guest will be Mike Marriner from Roadtrip Nation , the fascinating program to empower students to get out into their communities and connect what they learn to their real world. show is back!

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Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? And at the end of the year, to just see their growth … I start to get teary.”.

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Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. It can look a little different in every school, in every classroom and for each student. What is personalized learning?

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Hansen's Link to Tech

MARCH 25, 2015

There is an increase interest diversifying and engaging how students learn within and outside the classroom. Check out this great infographic from Knewton to learn more about blended learning (I also embedded at the bottom of this post). What is blended learning?

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Blended Learning Knewton Learning Survey 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 Zuoyebang (tutoring): $585 million. 17zuoye (tutoring): $585 million. EverFi (“critical skills” training): $251 million. Yuanfudao (tutoring) –- $244.2 Coursera (online education): $210.1 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5 DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $175.6

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

The conference also welcomes the return of familiar faces in new gigs: former Knewton CEO is now with Bakpax, and Los Angeles Unified’s former superintendent John Deasy will share plans for rebuilding prisons to better serve incarcerated youths. Kamau Bell. This is the week when everyone—us included—is finally locking in the calendars.

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Coursera Knewton Udemy EdTech 75

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

The Classroom 2.0 CodeNow: Teaching Programming, Narrowing the Digital Divide Pearson and Knewton: Big Data and the Promise of Personalized Learning The Open Course Library & the Quest for the $30 College Textbook' show is back! Or Build One?

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Khan Academy Knewton Digital Divide Pearson 39

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Via the AP : “A South Carolina solicitor says a sheriff’s deputy will face no charges for tossing a student across a classroom after she refused to put away her cellphone.” ” The school in question: the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow. Knewton has partnered with WebAssign.

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Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

” That’s Dallas Dance , who was the subject of another story the NYT’s Natasha Singer wrote last year , “ How Silicon Valley Plans to Conquer the Classroom.” Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.”

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Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Neither Knewton nor the Clinton campaign have confirmed the veracity of this leaked speech. Education Politics. ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education lynda.com Knewton E-rate 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

“How a Faculty Trip to Silicon Valley Changed the Classroom Experience,” according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Via Edsurge : “Everything You Need to Know to Get Started With AR/VR in the Classroom.” ” UA, as the newspaper name should probably tell you, is the University of Arkansas.

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

Via The New York Times : “How Google Took Over the Classroom.” Via Edsurge : “ Pearson , an Investor in Knewton , Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products.” ” There’s a lot in this superb article – data, surveillance, testing, costs, branding.

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Edmodo Education Knewton Pearson 45

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Classrooms.” From the press release : “ Knewton Launches Alta, Fully Integrated Adaptive Learning Courseware for Higher Education, Putting Achievement in Reach for Everyone.” From Liberia , “Government to crackdown on unlicensed schools,” New Vision reports. Via Politico : “How China Infiltrated U.S.

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Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Flipped Classroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. WTF is Unizin ?! Collared Dove. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. They’re distracted.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

" The AltSchool classroom is one of total surveillance: cameras and microphones and sensors track students and teachers – their conversations, their body language, their facial expressions, their activities. Learning management: Platforms that automate a range of classroom management tasks.

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

The New York Times on The Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow , an online charter school: “Online School Enriches Affiliated Companies if Not Its Students.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” .” Via NPR : “ Paying Students May Raise Test Scores, But The Lesson Is Not Over.”

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.” ” Knewton has raised some $157 million in venture capital. ( No disclosure that Edsurge shares investors – GSV Capital – with Knewton.).

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Education Knewton Company MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Jose Ferreira is stepping down as the CEO of Knewton. I think we all know the answer to that question: so that people always have fodder to write these sorts of op-eds, debating the advantages and disadvantages of calculators in the classroom. ” From the HR Department. “Could robots be marking your homework ?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Lots of folks in ed-tech seem super excited about Trump too, including Knewton’s Jose Ferreira , Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Harold O. That is, you can get emails about what’s going on in Google Classroom. Levy , and KnowledgeWorks ’ Lillian Pace.

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