Ed Tech from the Ground Up
MAY 16, 2016
As an online learning tool, Listen Current fits well into blended learning, but I wanted to learn more about how schools are adopting it and how we as a company can be more attractive to schools using blended learning. This is where new ed-tech companies can come into the picture. Recently I was invited by the Natick, Mass.
Edsurge
AUGUST 21, 2018
The company that set the bar for hyping adaptive-learning technology has had to adapt to new leadership and a new business model. Knewton has raised $25 million in a new funding round—the eighth since it launched in 2008. But some things seem to stay the same—such as its ability to win new investors and capital.
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Edsurge
MAY 9, 2017
Beyond online education, the enablement ethos has already extended into many other domains where for-profit companies are signing high profile, financially significant long-term partnerships with colleges and universities.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. Even in more normal times, Newkirk’s overall strategy has limitations.
Edsurge
JANUARY 18, 2018
Paul Freedman: The innovation for 2018 will be “partnerships,” including partnerships between institutions (like the University Innovation Alliance or the active learning consortium) and partnerships between higher education institutions and for-profit companies (like Lyft and Guild Education). Jeff Selingo: Deeper academic alliances.
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. Computers and YouTube videos haven’t replaced teachers.
Edsurge
JULY 30, 2017
When kids work on Scratch , for instance, their work is web-based: You can see when they start watching a video, when they stop, when they’re bored. 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.”
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