Edsurge
MARCH 14, 2022
Knewton: All Talk, Little Evidence While AltSchool spent millions of dollars, few experts I talked to described the microschool model as having negative impacts on student learning. But, don’t worry—they had plenty to say about Knewton. Life at a startup is hard, but education is exponentially harder.' No kidding.”
Marketplace K-12
JANUARY 25, 2016
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. TAL joins Knewton’s latest round of funding, which is led by Sofina, a Belgian investment group.
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Edsurge
MAY 9, 2017
While it is something of an outlier, the r ecent purchase of for-profit Kaplan University by Purdue University is one of the clearest examples of the ascendance of service-oriented enablement businesses.
Edsurge
JANUARY 18, 2018
Purdue and Kaplan University stunned the higher education world. That said, this will be the year that OER goes mainstream thanks to the launch of Cengage’s OpenNow, the other publishers’ inevitable response, and increased efforts of new courseware providers like Top Hat and Knewton. Prominent full-time MBA and law programs folded.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
CZI hired Bror Saxberg , whose previous work was with the for-profit online charter school K12 Inc and the for-profit college Kaplan, as its learning scientist. Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25 It hired David Plouffe , Obama’s ex-campaign manager who had most recently worked at Uber.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 24, 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that an investment firm run by Jonathan Grayer, the former CEO of Kaplan, has acquired Learning House , a company that helps colleges develop online degree programs. of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning?
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017
” That’s Kaplan University and the Art Institutes. More on the Kaplan news via The Chronicle of Higher Education. From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. ” The startup is called Learning Beautiful.
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