Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2018

In this week’s dealmaking news, adaptive learning products and technologies provider Knewton raised $25 million. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Knewton Raises $25 Million; Barnes & Noble Education Acquires PaperRater.com appeared first on Market Brief.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2015

Adaptive learning provider Knewton has launched a free, open personalized learning platform. Knewton’s adaptive-learning platform transforms any content into a data-rich version of itself, then bundles together those pieces of content that are best for each student based on exactly what she knows and how she learns best.

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Marketplace K-12

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The post Founder of Adaptive Learning Company Knewton to Leave CEO Position appeared first on Market Brief. Jose, Ferreira, who launched the global adaptive technology company in 2008, will remain on the board of directors.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2015

Knewton has announced a partnership with Classi to provide adaptive learning solutions to Japanese public schools. Knewton will power Classi’s digital courses to help high school students get a more personalized learning experience. The partnership marks Knewton’s second major partnership in Asia and its first in Japan.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

So in a sense, Byju's could succeed, and they have deeper pockets with more patience than was the case for VC-backed Knewton and some others.” Knewton attracted hype a few years ago and raised some $180 million before fizzling to an eventual sale of less than $17 million to Wiley in 2019.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. No industry analyst we spoke with believes the sale price was anywhere near what Knewton had raised.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2015

Adaptive learning provider Knewton has unveiled Personalized Print Learning Solutions with HP to make adaptive learning materials seamlessly available across print and digital platforms. Not every student has access to a computer at home or in the classroom, and some simply prefer print materials.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Recent dealmaking news includes acquisitions by Apple and Excelligence Learning, and partnership between Pearson and Knewton. Pearson, Knewton Form Partnership: Pearson and Knewton have teamed up in an effort to “personalize” K–12 math education starting with elementary school students. The Knewton-powered enVisionMATH2.0

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 19, 2015

Knewton has established partnerships with companies in about 20 countries outside the United States, where demand for ed-tech is growing.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 3, 2015

Silicon Valley tech company HP and Knewton, the developer of digital learner profiles, are partnering on an effort to bring "adaptive" print products into K-12 schools. Ed-tech Online Learning Publishing adaptivelearning print publishing'

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Venture capital deals in the ed-tech market dominated the news over the past week, with companies such as Knewton, SchoolMint, and NuuEd announcing the completion of funding rounds as well as ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 merging with the Y Combinator fund. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator: The Redwood City, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

This marks Wiley’s second courseware purchase in three months, following on its acquisition of the much hyped (and generously funded) Knewton in May. Wiley was pursuing Zyante and Knewton at the same time, claims Matt Leavy, executive vice president of Wiley’s education publishing division.

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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.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 16, 2016

And companies like Knewton are targeting schools taking a personalized approach. There are whole companies devoted to helping schools become blended. Education Elements offers personalized learning consulting services and can help schools walk through the process.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. Developing adaptive learning capabilities has been an ongoing effort for Pearson—dating back to nearly a decade, when it invested in Knewton in hopes of using the startup’s technology for its digital products.

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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

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Wiley to Acquire Knewton’s Assets, Marking an End to an Expensive Startup Journey by Tony Wan Knewton, the much-hyped developer of adaptive-learning tools and digital courseware, was acquired by Wiley.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2016

Pearson MyLab & Mastering (with Knewton). Difference Engine by Learning Objects (Cengage). Fulcrum Labs. Junction Education. LeAP by D2L. LearnSmart (McGraw Hill Education). Lumen Waymaker. Macmillan Learning Curves. Smart Sparrow. Stanford University OLI. WileyPlus with Orion (Snapwiz).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Wiley, for example, purchased Knewton and zyBooks just two months apart in 2019 to bolster its digital offerings. One of the longest and most well-known digital-first efforts comes from OpenStax, whose small but growing library of openly licensed materials have been used by more than 9 million students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Once the industry’s poster child for adaptive learning, Knewton boasted working with dozens of publishers, including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Arena says he’s familiar with Knewton, adding that his team is “proceeding slowly and cautiously” in its external partnership and business development work.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

WebAssign, Knewton Form Partnership: WebAssign , provider of digital instructional solutions for faculty and students, has formed an alliance with adaptive learning company Knewton , according to a statement. “We’re ” Inspired Acquires International School of Europe Group: H.I.G.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One example is Knewton , an AI-powered platform that tailors personalized lesson plans to students. AI is creating dramatic transformations in the workplace, as computers replace human labor, but AI in education has been largely limited to tutoring software that aims to make curriculum materials more individualized for students.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

based adaptive learning company Knewton recently announced it was forming a partnership with 17zuoye , which describes itself as the largest online education platform in that country. Knewton Launches Partnerships With Ed. Another China-based company, 17zuoye , raised $100 million. Companies in China, Japan.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Ones used directly for academics (like Knewton) or ones that are non-academic? With Knewton, that is this notion of personalized and adaptive instruction. And so what Knewton does—and what any personalized and adaptive technology does—is, you design tasks for students to do in the interface.

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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. Tinkergarten , which operates a network of outdoor-based classes for young children, has raised $5.4 million in a Series A round led by Owl Ventures.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Knewton, an adaptive learning engine that became a digital courseware company, was reportedly bought by Wiley for way less than it raised. The next edtech company to go public isn’t yet known, but multiple investors said they consider Coursera, the top fundraiser of 2019 so far, a strong candidate.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

There’s Wiley, better known in academia and research, which recently acquired Knewton and zyBooks , to sell online higher-ed courseware. Aside from the usual suspects, a host of other companies and upstarts now also compete with Top Hat. For openly-licensed materials, there’s Lumen Learning and OpenStax.

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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. Education technology isn’t a new idea or industry, moderator and EdSurge Managing Editor Tony Wan reminded the audience. Or does it?)

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

The nonprofit’s bets across a range of digital technologies, from adaptive learning to formative assessments, means that it is also closely watching other markets and companies including Knewton and Renaissance Learning. Roorda and Oswald both say open-source technologies will play an integral role in the future of education. “A

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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. Enuma $4 million (A) 2015 TAL Education, Softbank Ventures Korea Epic! million (Seed) 2014 WI Harper Group GotIt! $9

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

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. How much consolidation—in mergers and acquisitions, and closures—of colleges and universities will we see in the new year?

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

Meanwhile, Wiley acquired two startups— Knewton and Zyante —to bolster its courseware offerings. Last August, Cengage launched a subscription that offers students unlimited access to its digital materials. If Cengage’s planned merger with McGraw-Hill Education is approved, this model could soon include titles from both publishers.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

(We should update that study for a world in which a printed OpenStax math textbook costs $ 58 and aligned online homework costs $ 23 from WebAssign or $ 30 from XYZ or $ 40 from Knewton.) Replacing your old textbook with OER does not guarantee that you save $100.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

Another publisher, Wiley, bought Knewton and Zybooks in a span of two months. There’s a lot of flexibility in terms of how to make the textbooks more affordable to students versus before. Certainly the “ gating issue ” now is: What’s the Department of Justice going to say? Do you see publishers pursuing digital courseware assets as a trend?

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Another dashed hope was the digital tutor made by a New-York-based company called Knewton, which one education consultant rated as “snake oil” in an NPR story in 2015.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

Can adaptive platforms (such as ALEKS or Knewton) help students learn the facts and enable the teachers to guides? Will it free up the day? Will AI replace the teachers? Will AI help teachers free up their time so they can be “guides” for the students? A Survey of the State of Machine Intelligence 3.0, from Shivon Zillis.

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