Edsurge
MAY 26, 2020
It’s not that the publishers don’t know how to digitize materials,” he adds. The question is: ‘How well can Top Hat do it?’” 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.
Marketplace K-12
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
In an interview with Fortune magazine , Kahn said his company “technically bought [Duck Duck Moose] for $1, and we immediately went into fundraising mode to figure out how to also bring the team. ” Inspired Acquires International School of Europe Group: H.I.G. .” Omidyar Network stepped up.”.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 8, 2017
For Brian Fitzgerald, what began as a newborn side project in 2012—when he was working at edtech startup Knewton—has become a fully-grown venture of its own. There is a period of time when kids need to have free space in order to learn how to learn,” says Fitzgerald. “We million in a Series A round led by Owl Ventures.
Edsurge
APRIL 26, 2017
million (Seed) 2014 WI Harper Group GotIt! $9 9 million (A) 2016 Fosun Group Kaymbu $2 million (Seed) 2016 Sinovation Ventures Knewton $52 million (F) 2016 TAL Education KnowRe $6.8 2014 TAL Education, Yongjin Group, ZhenFund One Month $1.9 2014 TAL Education, Yongjin Group, ZhenFund One Month $1.9
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. Imagine students in a control group go from 50% on a pre-test to 60% on a post-test, whereas in the treatment group they go from 50% to 80%,” he explains.
Edsurge
AUGUST 13, 2019
How can technology be used at scale to address the massive re-skilling that’s going to be needed in the workforce going forward? On the lifelong learning and certification side, I would say Colibri Group [an online education company that serves licensed professionals], which bought Western Schools.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 17, 2011
Among the bill''s provisions is the return of control to the states over devising their own systems for how to hold schools accountable for student achievement. A study by the NPD Group released this week finds that 91% of kids ages 2 to 17 play games. The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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