Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2024
That’s what researchers at Georgia Tech have been trying , for instance, hoping that their muti-chatbot system can get to the point where any false information is scrubbed from an answer before it is shown to a student. The assets of Knewton were quietly sold off a few years later.) What does a human tutor do well?
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Kibby has big claims of his own, however, when it comes to how aggressively Knewton plans to compete with major textbook publishers. per month.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 21, 2018
Knewton has raised $25 million in a new funding round—the eighth since it launched in 2008. Brian Kibby, CEO of Knewton Getting into the courseware business marks a major pivot for the New York City-based company, which originally licensed its adaptive learning technology to publishers. Sample screenshot of what students see in Alta.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children. That information is then distilled into feedback, patterns and predictions that tutors can use during their in-person teaching session.
Edsurge
JULY 30, 2017
Can adaptive platforms (such as ALEKS or Knewton) help students learn the facts and enable the teachers to guides? Say I’m a teacher, and an edtech company says “my math tool is AI-backed.” Blum: We’re at a point where there’s no such thing as PII (personally identifiable information). Will it free up the day? What should I ask?
Graphite Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2016
A second model includes sites that get their initial data from teacher or school signup, but then as part of the service offered in the site, they acquire student information. A very incomplete list of examples here include Knewton, Infinite Campus, eScholar, Schoolnet, Learnsprout, or Clever.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 26, 2018
Panelist Andrew Jones, a data scientist at Knewton, admitted that despite the hype, machine learning is still relatively limited in how it’s been applied, at least in the eyes of some users. For all the talk about data and learning, Essa offered this blunt assessment: “Pretty much all edtech sucks. Or does it?) So what’s missing?
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