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Making Sense of the Metaverse in Education

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One example is Knewton , an AI-powered platform that tailors personalized lesson plans to students. For example, AV1 is a distance-learning robot in the UK that allows children suffering from long-term illness to attend school.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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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. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.) edtech startups.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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That kind of feedback would be perfect if you had a robot learner on the other end,” he says. The robot learner would be delighted to have you say, ‘Okay, you made three errors in problem number one,’ and being a robot learner, they’d be able to take out those bugs and do better the next time.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.” Via Edsurge : “ Smithsonian Forms ‘Strategic Alliance’ With Carnegie Learning to Build New STEM Products.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” The firm: KPMG. ” Some “fix.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Kids connect with robot reading partners ,” says the PR office of the University of Wisconsin Madison. .” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Edsurge : “ Pearson , an Investor in Knewton , Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products.” ” No disclosure in the story that Edsurge shares investors with Knewton , nor that Pearson is, by way of Learn Capital, also an investor in Edsurge. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the Afghan robotics team in the contest section below. “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. for Robotics Contest.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education in the Courts. ” From the HR Department.