Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. The secret to its swift entry into publishing was OER (open education resources). On its website, Knewton describes its new online textbooks as “ course products.”
Edsurge
MAY 12, 2017
Throughout the past decade, Knewton ’s adaptive learning technology has been backed by some of the biggest names in the both the publishing and venture capital community. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings.
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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.
Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2020
The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. On its website , the company claims it has more than 700 institutional customers across the K-12, higher education and corporate learning space. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. million in venture capital.
Edsurge
AUGUST 21, 2018
The company that set the bar for hyping adaptive-learning technology has had to adapt to new leadership and a new business model. Knewton has raised $25 million in a new funding round—the eighth since it launched in 2008. Source: Knewton From a student’s perspective, Alta works primarily by asking questions.
Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
He writes: To me, both cyberspace and OER are tools that I think can be used to generate positive outcomes, but can also (very clearly I think) be used to generate outcomes I don’t support, like political polarization or business models that sell us back our experiences rather than proprietary content. Nate is absolutely right.
Edsurge
JULY 15, 2019
David Wiley, chief academic officer of Lumen Learning The company did not specify a timeframe for how frequently it will print new editions. The goal, she says, is to “make our tools more versatile in terms of how we help students learn.” Revel, another line of digital courseware, will soon be released on the Global Learning Platform.
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