Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2024
Instead, he co-founded a new AI company, called Merlyn Mind, that is building other types of AI-powered tools for educators. Meanwhile, plenty of companies and education leaders these days are hard at work chasing that dream of building AI tutors. The assets of Knewton were quietly sold off a few years later.) They’re tools.
Marketplace K-12
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
In this week’s dealmaking news, early childhood education app donated itself to Khan Academy while Canadian online tutoring platform GradeSlam raised $1.6 Khan Academy explained in a blog post that the donation is possible “thanks to philanthropic investment firm Omidyar Network, the first underwriter of this new initiative.”
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Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
Companies have been selling their products – textbooks, workbooks, maps, films, and so on – to schools for well over a century. Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. Khan Academy was going to change everything.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 24, 2011
The company is also lifting some of its "per-seat" licensing fees so that those not enrolled in classes aren''t charged for accessing the material. Khan Academy announced this week that it has added the first new faculty members beyond just Sal Khan himself. Definitely worth a listen.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 9, 2016
The company said that the Department of Education’s decision to bar it from federal financial aid forced it to do so. Employees claim they were not notified that the company would be closing. Knewton has partnered with WebAssign. Coding Bootcamps (The Once and Future “For-Profit Higher Ed”). Buyer beware, FFS.
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. Khan Academy wants to start offering diplomas.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.
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