eSchool News
AUGUST 30, 2015
‘Friendly robot-tutor in the sky’ delivers on-demand, hyper-personalized learning. Adaptive learning provider Knewton has launched a free, open personalized learning platform. Any individual can create or use state-of-the-art supplemental lessons to provide students with unique learning paths in real-time.
Edsurge
MAY 26, 2020
And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click. There’s Wiley, better known in academia and research, which recently acquired Knewton and zyBooks , to sell online higher-ed courseware. For openly-licensed materials, there’s Lumen Learning and OpenStax.
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Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
Koedinger sees three main areas of learning engineering, which together give flight to the learner. The first is to hone and clearly scope out what students need to learn in any given situation. The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. That’s known as the metacognitive realm.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Rafranz Davis, who leads the digital learning program in the Lufkin intermediate School District, just west of the Louisiana border in rural east Texas, said that many programs labeled “personalized” or “adaptive” don’t offer individualization.
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.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Pearson said it would shift its strategy and make all its textbooks “ digital first ” (which you just know is going to cost students more). Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Something about "learning engineers". Good work, Adam and Rebekah. LOL LOL LOL.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”. Pearson's "Digital Transformation". Reader, they were not. Socorro Dove.
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