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K-12 Dealmaking: Investor Weld North, Learn Launch Make Big Moves

Marketplace K-12

TAL Invests in Knewton: TAL Education Group (NYSE: XRS ), a K-12 after-school tutoring services provider in China, announced a strategic investment in New York-based Knewton , a global provider of adaptive learning products. Knewton has an established international footprint.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It

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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work? based education reform advocacy group.

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

And it would not be possible, Trout said, without small-group instruction and the assistance of classroom technology that helps her deliver a custom-fit lesson for each student. Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

But other times, the scenes that were captured were taken out of context or these videos were purposefully weaponized (by conservative groups, for example, who encourage students to film their professors’ lectures and submit their names to “watch lists”). Altius Education. Course Signals. Channel One (and the Unsinkable Chris Whittle).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

He’s a partner at Founders Fund, which has invested in Knewton, AltSchool, Uversity, ResearchGate, If You Can, Upstart, Declara, and Affirm. Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss.