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.”

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Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 124

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

“Fake news,” “robots coming for our jobs,” “the new economy,” “surveillance capitalism,” “personalization,” “the cult of innovation,” and so on – these are all narratives intertwined in the power of major technology companies, platforms, data, and algorithms.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. Chatbot Instructors.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145