Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. Founded in 2011, Smart Sparrow had raised about $23.5

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

The latest round of deals in the school marketplace underscores investors’ and ed-tech providers’ burgeoning interest in data analytics and instructional technologies. TAL joins Knewton’s latest round of funding, which is led by Sofina, a Belgian investment group. Knewton has an established international footprint.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Colleges often experiment with artificial intelligence to help spot when students need special help, part of an effort to draw predictions from data. But a rush to test—and possibly rely on—algorithms raises many questions, none bigger than this: Could the data lead colleges to rethink how they operate to serve students?

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Within educational technology, tech companies can acquire data via multiple routes. BetterLesson is an example of a site like this - a teacher creates an account, and only teacher data gets collected. A fourth model that collects both learner and parent data includes apps for kids, marketed either to parents or to children.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

And check out EdWeek Market Brief , a service that provides companies doing business with schools with news, analysis, and original data on the needs and priorities of K-12 systems. ” Inspired Acquires International School of Europe Group: H.I.G. “We’re ” Inspired Acquires International School of Europe Group: H.I.G.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. That data, he says, comes from him asking questions like ‘What did you learn this semester?’

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

That requires data and data analytics, and we are building our own internal capabilities. But each platform might use its own proprietary data format that is incompatible with others. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, although Roorda said the investment is more than $1 million.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

Benemann: There’s so much more data than ever before. For us at EruditeAI, data is more precious than revenue. With better data, we can better train our algorithms. Kireyev: We’re seeing a data explosion in education content—both data for and from students. Transparent data collection is incredibly valuable.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

But she’s excited at the possibility that “instead of methodically marching through every chapter, we can analyze data accumulated from students’ responses, and the latest pedagogical research, to pinpoint specific areas of misconceptions, discomfort or where students struggle.” Are students paying the price in terms of their data?

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Have you ever seen a school data wall? You’ve probably heard about the positive side of all that data gathering and sharing. Like this story we ran just last week about a district that used data as the catalyst to conquer chronic absences. Here are five arguments against the excesses of data-driven instruction.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” Augment, not replace, of course.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8 edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.) edtech startups.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Last month, TechCrunch wrote of an “ implosion of early-stage VC funding ,” citing Pitchbook data that showed that the number of early-stage rounds have plummeted from more than 13,000 in 2014 to nearly 6,000 this year. Slowly but steadily, private equity firms are piecing together assets to create educational data platforms.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning has a lack of really clear data points, really clear success stories,” said Hilah Barbot, science and technology director for the national charter school network KIPP, who worked for several years as a teacher and administrator at KIPP New Orleans, overseeing their technology initiatives.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. How accurate is her data? (I’d You can find more data about “the business of ed-tech” – from 2017 and from previous years – on funding.hackeducation.com.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. Platforms are “an extractive apparatus for data.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. It does allude to student excitement and creativity, but does not take these qualities seriously because they can’t be placed in a data stream.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Gather student data, make predictions about their learning—and perhaps their future. Speakers quickly contextualized the technology with the shift in how widely available data is today. “We Before the digital world, if you wanted data on students, you had to stop the student, instrument or test them, then go on your way.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The opportunity to collect empirical data in near real time will be far greater, so we can test out different approaches for different students and see what works, for whom, and under what circumstances.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. Research and Data The American Academy of Pediatrics has long suggested that parents limit the amount of television their young children watch. Ars Technica has a good write-up of the research.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it. But for that concept to work, a child must spend a lot of time on the computer, feeding the system with data that the software uses to improve itself.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 The data analysis and surveillance that are at the core of “smart cities” will surely include education data. Zuoyebang (tutoring): $585 million. 17zuoye (tutoring): $585 million. EverFi (“critical skills” training): $251 million. Yuanfudao (tutoring) –- $244.2

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it. Knewton’s claim to fame (and some are skeptical of it) is that it provides the right difficulty and the right presentation, and can find whatever style students seem to like best.

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Kevin Corbett

JUNE 3, 2015

It is from Knewton Learning. Some signification data points from the Infographic include: 28 Million people harvest crops on FarmVille EVERY day. Below is a great infographic on Gamification in Education. See also: Gamification in Education: What? Why Bother? Gamification in Education.

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Kevin Corbett

JUNE 3, 2015

It is from Knewton Learning. Some signification data points from the Infographic include: 28 Million people harvest crops on FarmVille EVERY day. Below is a great infographic on Gamification in Education. See also: Gamification in Education: What? Why Bother? Gamification in Education.

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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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Mind reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton was acquired by Wiley for $17 million — LOL — having raised over $180 million. ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy. LOL LOL LOL. Emily Tate wrote in July about what happens when an online tutor for VIPKid witnesses child abuse. Spoiler alert: nothing.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

For what it’s worth, investment analyst firm CB Insights predicts that funding this year will not exceed that 2015 level , but one of the reasons I like to track the data myself is that everyone’s numbers and everyone’s assessment of the industry seem to be different, depending in part on “what counts” as ed-tech.

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Coursera Knewton Company Udemy 57

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.” Via Campus Technology : “ Education Data Breaches Double in First Half of 2017.” Edutechnica offers its “5th Annual LMS Data Update.” ” The startup is called Learning Beautiful.

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Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. 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'

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” For more data on outsourcing online education to third-party providers, see the research section below. “ Telcel customers can now access Khan Academy free of data charges on mobile apps and es.zero.khanacademy.org thanks to partnership with Carlos Slim Foundation and Telcel,” says Khan Academy.

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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. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.” ” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” “Preliminary Data on K–12 LMS Market ” from Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. ” “ Learning Agency, Not Analytics ” by April Hathcock.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

And more online education news in the “Betteridge’s Law of Headlines” section and in the research and data section below. ” More news about a data breach at a testing company in the infosec section below. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Go, School Sports Team! Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

I hope none of these programs are teaching “data science,” because this is just a silly claim based on bad data. ” New York Magazine on the history of COPPA : “ Inside the Decades-Long Fight to Protect Your Children’s Data From Advertisers.” Good grief. Even worse?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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