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” MicroBachelors were apparently on one of Anant Agarwal’s slide at a recent conference. Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.” Via Edsurge : “ Smithsonian Forms ‘Strategic Alliance’ With Carnegie Learning to Build New STEM Products.”

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Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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” “Lawsuits could lead to changes in the NCAA ’s concussion rules and threaten some athletic conferences, while broader questions about college football’s viability begin to emerge,” says Inside Higher Ed. ” According to Edsurge , Knewton is now a courseware company and not a “robot tutor in the sky.”

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Jose Ferreira is stepping down as the CEO of Knewton. ” Contests and Conferences. “Could robots be marking your homework ?” ” – “ China’s STEM learning industry may reach $15 billion by 2020.” ” From the HR Department. A Tour Of Silicon Valley’s Leaky Pipeline.”