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. Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence.
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.”
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 24, 2011
I''m also a proposed panelist for "Education2.0 - Social Media Drives Student Success" being hosted by Jennifer Openshaw. Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. November 2 - 4, all online, all free.
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.
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.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 23, 2019
That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. Mind reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton was acquired by Wiley for $17 million — LOL — having raised over $180 million. My hope for the new decade is we can keep the lies out of their mouths. LOL LOL LOL.
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