Edsurge
DECEMBER 19, 2017
There’s a realization with a number of high-profile implosions or corrections, whether it’s AltSchool or Knewton , that have cooled a lot of folk’s appetite,” says Pianko. We’ve seen the most interest in SaaS (software-as-a-service) models where the product is complementary to an existing platform.”. That may be changing.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 20, 2018
My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” No surprise, that includes companies like Knewton who like to say they’re using AI – data collection, data analysis, and algorithms – to improve teaching and learning.)
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Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2017
9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8 edtech startups, including Enuma , Knewton , Minerva Project , Ready4 and Volley. tech company has a Chinese analog: for every Amazon there’s an Alibaba; for every Google, a Baidu. “I
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Education’s Proto-Platforms. If so, what are they?
MindShift
JUNE 7, 2016
Check out the “dashboards” inside programs like Google Apps for Education, or freestanding gradebook apps like JumpRope, or ClassDojo, focused on behavior. Software also collects information on students all by itself. Companies like Google pledge not to track the content of schoolwork for the purposes of advertising.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 17, 2011
Can Google Challenge Over-Zealous Web Filtering at Schools? Last year, the National Federation of the Blind filed a complaint against Penn State, charging that the school''s adoption of Google Apps for Education was discriminatory. That class is produced by language learning software maker Rosetta Stone.
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