The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

New additions to the already-amazing guest schedule are Henry Eyring on The Innovative University , Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach on The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age , and Cable Green on "public funding should equal openly-licensed resources." The Classroom 2.0 show is back! Or Build One?

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Khan Academy Knewton Digital Divide Pearson 39

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” “ University of Michigan adds an automated text-analysis tool to a growing program intended to give more students a chance to learn through writing,” Inside Higher Ed reports. “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. for Robotics Contest.”

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

He’s a partner at Founders Fund, which has invested in Knewton, AltSchool, Uversity, ResearchGate, If You Can, Upstart, Declara, and Affirm. Also off campus, not on-: “ Unemployed Detroit Residents Are Trapped by a Digital Divide.” Accelerate Learning has raised $10 million from Owl Ventures.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Challenges to accreditation and certification and the steady drumbeat of “everyone should learn to code” are connected to politics as well as to the business of ed-tech. At the end of 2016, the most pressing question is not, as a recent Edsurge headline asked , “Who Thinks Tech Makes Learning More Fun?”

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