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. And even before the management change, the company had quietly started building a huge library of courses bolted to its adaptive engine. per month.
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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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
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
Last year, Top Hat devoted its energies—and monies—to shoring up its content library. Cengage, which offers an “unlimited” subscription to its library of digital textbooks, has around 3 million subscribers, according to a spokesperson. based independent ones: Fountainhead Press and bluedoor. But Top Hat is not that far behind others.
Edsurge
MAY 26, 2020
Should the Nelson deal pass, Top Hat will boast more than 1,000 titles in its library. There’s Wiley, better known in academia and research, which recently acquired Knewton and zyBooks , to sell online higher-ed courseware. More than 90 percent of its users are in the U.S.,
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 17, 2011
ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. E-book provider Overdrive reports that e-book checkouts from libraries are up over 200% from last year.
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. Machine learning would be great for leveling my classroom library. So how does machine learning really change the status quo? (Or Or does it?)
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