eSchool News
AUGUST 17, 2015
Knewton has announced a partnership with Classi to provide adaptive learning solutions to Japanese public schools. Knewton will power Classi’s digital courses to help high school students get a more personalized learning experience. The partnership marks Knewton’s second major partnership in Asia and its first in Japan.
Edsurge
AUGUST 21, 2018
Knewton has raised $25 million in a new funding round—the eighth since it launched in 2008. Brian Kibby, CEO of Knewton Getting into the courseware business marks a major pivot for the New York City-based company, which originally licensed its adaptive learning technology to publishers. Sample screenshot of what students see in Alta.
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 20, 2016
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sought to find out, and gave money to 14 colleges and universities to test some of the most popular “adaptive learning” software in the marketplace, including products from a Pearson-Knewton joint venture, from a unit of McGraw-Hill Education called ALEKS and from the Open Learning Initiative.
Marketplace K-12
JANUARY 25, 2016
TAL Invests in Knewton: TAL Education Group (NYSE: XRS ), a K-12 after-school tutoring services provider in China, announced a strategic investment in New York-based Knewton , a global provider of adaptive learning products. TAL joins Knewton’s latest round of funding, which is led by Sofina, a Belgian investment group.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” About once a day, all the students gather with a human instructor for a brief in-person lesson known as “study hall.”
Edsurge
JULY 15, 2019
These changes usually incorporate new findings in a field of study, or reflect recent events. According to a study by U.S. Studies have shown that publishers previously justified raising prices by bundling textbooks with supplemental software that are rarely used. But each new edition comes with a higher sticker price.
Iterating Toward Openness
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
We should update that study for a world in which a printed OpenStax math textbook costs $ 58 and aligned online homework costs $ 23 from WebAssign or $ 30 from XYZ or $ 40 from Knewton.) Replacing your old textbook with OER does not guarantee that you save $100. I could go on.
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