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Pearson, an Investor in Knewton, Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products

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Throughout the past decade, Knewton ’s adaptive learning technology has been backed by some of the biggest names in the both the publishing and venture capital community. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings.

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Classi, Knewton to launch adaptive learning courses abroad

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Partnership will bring personalized learning products to high schools in Japan. Knewton has announced a partnership with Classi to provide adaptive learning solutions to Japanese public schools. Knewton will power Classi’s digital courses to help high school students get a more personalized learning experience.

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Knewton, HP team up on personalized print solutions

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Personalized print learning solutions could help close the gap between online, print worlds by letting publishers and teachers tailor materials for students’ individual needs. Students can learn using printed and/or digital adaptive content. Next page: How teachers can use the new solution to target student learning.

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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies.

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Digital Courseware Provider Top Hat Gets $130M and a New CEO

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But it could prove just as disruptive in the world of education publishing, where technology startups have been steadily taking market share from traditional incumbents. There is risk in becoming too much a content company,” he says, one that could detract the company from its core strength in building technology tools.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. From bundling its clicker technology with course materials from other publishers, the company now offers a marketplace and authoring tools for people to build their own courses on the platform. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’”

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.

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