Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. Based Company. Authess $2.2

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EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 104

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

Can adaptive platforms (such as ALEKS or Knewton) help students learn the facts and enable the teachers to guides? Say I’m a teacher, and an edtech company says “my math tool is AI-backed.” Will it free up the day? Will AI replace the teachers? Will AI help teachers free up their time so they can be “guides” for the students?

Education 137

Education Knewton Industry Data 137

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. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 100

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

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. “And it’s not even close.”

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Data Knewton Report Software 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Ethics and Legalities The New York Times continues its investigation of education giant Pearson and ethics concerns surrounding lavish trips that the company''s foundation has sponsored for state education officials. Valve , the company behind the video game hit Portal, is working on an educational game.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The online study tool StudyBlue has launched a new Facebook app called " Friends with Brainefits." 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. Revenue for the company''s fourth quarter totalled $1122 million, a 10.9%

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Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

And various technology companies — from no-name startups to behemoths like Pearson — boast of new programs meant to facilitate this style of education. 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

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2019

From that list of results, he says, you might pick three videos and an infographic, and then add a case study focusing on a really moving human story. It’s a little hard to tell how Knewton works because it is so proprietary,” says Lue. You drop these into a learning pathway, and you resequence them the way you want to,” he says.

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MOOC Knewton Education Adaptive Learning 156

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

Trends 93

Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

And various technology companies — from no-name startups to behemoths like Pearson — boast of new programs meant to facilitate this style of education. Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it.

Personalized Learning 28

Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “ Student loan companies reach $21.6 From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.” The literacy software company has raised $14.8 ” The Business (and the Politics of the Business) of Student Loans. ” More via Buzzfeed and via Reuters.

Education 48

Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Via Education Week’s Market Brief : “ State Testing Disruptions Likely Produced Dips and Gains in Student Scores, Study Says.” The company said that the Department of Education’s decision to bar it from federal financial aid forced it to do so. Knewton has partnered with WebAssign. Buyer beware, FFS.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Dance concealed about $12,000 in payments he received through his consulting work in 2015, including $4,600 from an organization called the Education Research and Development Institute – ERDI for short – that pays superintendents to attend meetings with educational tech companies. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The U.S.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Robotics 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. The company has raised $420 million total.

Education 40

Education lynda.com Knewton E-rate 40

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Meanwhile on Campus… Sara Goldrick-Rab on food insecurity on college campuses : “It’s Hard to Study if You’re Hungry.” ” More news about a data breach at a testing company in the infosec section below. ” The company: Questar Assessment, Inc. Go, School Sports Team! Very clever indeed.

Education 44

Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44

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. They’re distracting others.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“ Apollo Education Group , the parent company of the University of Phoenix and Western International University , announced Thursday that it would eliminate the use of mandatory arbitration clauses in students’ enrollment agreements,” Inside Higher Ed reports. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Facebook, like many digital technology companies, promises that in exchange for collecting your personal data – your name, your age, your gender, your photos, metadata on your photos, your location, your preferences, your browsing and clicking habits, your friends’ names – it will deliver “personalization.”

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Also via Edsurge : “How Boundaries Between Colleges and Companies Will Continue to Blur.” “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. Tutoring company Clark has raised $2.2 The learn-to-code company has raised $1.62 million total.

Education 45

Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Wayne Johnson, the head of the department’s financial aid division and a former executive at a student loan company , says that those “non-traditional” servicers could include companies like Visa , Amazon , or Goldman Sachs. ” Knewton has raised some $157 million in venture capital. (

Education 46

Education Knewton Company MOOC 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Why, for example, would Microsoft famously put out a study in 2015 saying that humans’ attention spans are shorter than goldfish’s? A company that really drives the ideology that underpins how we talk about the future of school and tech. Over the companies that get funded. And why on earth would we believe that?!).

Knewton 65

Knewton Company Kaplan Facebook 65

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

“These Universities Are Training the World’s Top Coders,” according to Fast Company , which claims the best “coders” (whatever the hell that means) come from the Russian Federation College, ITMO University (Russia), Sun Yat-sen Memorial Middle School (China), and Ho Chi Minh City University of Science (Vietnam).

Education 40

Education Coursera lynda.com LMS 40

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. the largest for-profit operator of online schools in the country, are calling on the company to disclose how much it spends on lobbying and advertising ,” Education Week reports.

Education 40

Education Elsevier Report Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. If that’s what “technology” means, then every company is in the technology business – a useless distinction. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40