Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

It was the first episode of our new series of video town halls called EdSurge Live. Ones used directly for academics (like Knewton) or ones that are non-academic? With Knewton, that is this notion of personalized and adaptive instruction. The hour-long discussion was so rich, we’re releasing it in two installments.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.).

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

MakeBlock (robotics) – $30 million. Kaltura (video platform) – $165.1 Knewton (algorithmic textbooks) – $157.25 There are only a couple of outcomes once a company has raised venture capital. MasterClass (online classes taught by celebrities) – $35 million. The Most Well-Funded Ed-Tech Startups.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Knewton has partnered with WebAssign. ” Via Edsurge : “What Video Games Like Doom Teach Us About Learning, According to GBL Guru James Paul Gee.” Edsurge officially announces its new, expanded focus , Edsurge Higher Ed. ” Via NPR : “How Domestic Violence In One Home Affects Every Child In A Class.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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