Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

This marks Wiley’s second courseware purchase in three months, following on its acquisition of the much hyped (and generously funded) Knewton in May. Wiley was pursuing Zyante and Knewton at the same time, claims Matt Leavy, executive vice president of Wiley’s education publishing division.

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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

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. Developing adaptive learning capabilities has been an ongoing effort for Pearson—dating back to nearly a decade, when it invested in Knewton in hopes of using the startup’s technology for its digital products.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Young Instructure, the publicly traded company best known for its Canvas learning management system, has agreed to be taken private by Thoma Bravo in a $2 billion deal—unless a better offer comes along. We later learned that the education publisher paid less than $17 million —much less than the $180 million that Knewton had previously raised.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2016

APLU selected the seven schools from applicants among its 235-member public research institutions, land-grant institutions and state university systems. Pearson MyLab & Mastering (with Knewton). The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is funding the grant. Difference Engine by Learning Objects (Cengage). Fulcrum Labs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

While Kidaptive’s system is used to determine the sequence of activities in Fish Force, it does not offer information about where or why users may have done something wrong. Once the industry’s poster child for adaptive learning, Knewton boasted working with dozens of publishers, including Pearson and McGraw-Hill.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In all, these technologies help create systems for individuals and businesses to own, buy, share or sell goods. One example is Knewton , an AI-powered platform that tailors personalized lesson plans to students. Also associated is Web3, a vision of a revamped and decentralized Web where users own their online activities. Yes and no.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Ones used directly for academics (like Knewton) or ones that are non-academic? With Knewton, that is this notion of personalized and adaptive instruction. And so what Knewton does—and what any personalized and adaptive technology does—is, you design tasks for students to do in the interface.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

And check out EdWeek Market Brief , a service that provides companies doing business with schools with news, analysis, and original data on the needs and priorities of K-12 systems. ” Inspired Acquires International School of Europe Group: H.I.G.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

TAO is built based on QTI (short for “Question and Test Interoperability”), a data standard that enables assessment content and data to work across different testing platforms, item banks, delivery systems and reporting tools. Roorda and Oswald both say open-source technologies will play an integral role in the future of education. “A

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

But I’d argue that, more importantly perhaps, we must recognize that there is no point in the history of the American public education system that we can point to as the golden age of high quality, equitable, commercial free schooling. It can refer to a recording device, like the data-monitoring systems in planes, trains, and cars.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

We can take note of say, if one person’s stronger in math, how can the system identify the challenge, and then open it up to teachers so they can be better tutors for their students? Can adaptive platforms (such as ALEKS or Knewton) help students learn the facts and enable the teachers to guides? Are we using it already?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system. Because our education system is built to standardize, not personalize, transforming it through disruptive innovation is critical.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Jose Ferreira, CEO of Knewton , said in a 2012 speech that his “adaptive learning” platform, used by 10 million students globally, collects 5 to 10 million data points per student per day — down to how many seconds it takes you to answer that algebra problem. Software also collects information on students all by itself.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A few years ago, with little fanfare or announcement, the New Orleans education system began a massive experiment that’s reshaping how kids learn across the city. The attempt here is to try to move closer towards an idealized system that’s not feasible because of costs,” said John Pane, one of the study’s five authors.

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Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

A very incomplete list of examples here include Knewton, Infinite Campus, eScholar, Schoolnet, Learnsprout, or Clever. Data Privacy Plays Out Over Time Unless data collected by an app is deleted or destroyed - and this includes data in backups and in systems that provide redundancy - we need to start thinking of data trails as timeless.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Absorb (learning management system) – $59 million. AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $40 million. AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $172.9 D2L (learning management system) – $165 million. Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Among the bill''s provisions is the return of control to the states over devising their own systems for how to hold schools accountable for student achievement. Pearson announced this week that it plans to release a free learning management system aimed at the higher education market.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system. The LMS has long positioned itself as an “operating system,” of sorts for higher education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2019

Here’s how his system will work: “Let’s say you want to do something on sickle cell anemia,” Lue says. It’s a little hard to tell how Knewton works because it is so proprietary,” says Lue. “The course was actually starting to get in the way,” he says, calling courses large and “relatively unwieldy.”

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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. Education technology isn’t a new idea or industry, moderator and EdSurge Managing Editor Tony Wan reminded the audience. Or does it?)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0:

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 AltSchool (private school; learning management system): $172.9 D2L (learning management system): $165 million. The original OPM is probably the learning management system. Coursera (online education): $210.1 Age of Learning (educational apps): $181.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it. The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it. The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

The region boasts an unusual concentration of highly-valued tech startups—Domo, Qualtrics and Inside Sales are among them—along with big education companies, including Instructure, the developer of the Canvas learning management system. Kamau Bell. This is the week when everyone—us included—is finally locking in the calendars.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $40 million. AltSchool (private school; learning management system) – $173 million. D2L (learning management system) – $165 million. Knewton (algorithmic textbooks) – $157.25 Grammarly (grammar and spelling assistance) – $110 million.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Mind reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton was acquired by Wiley for $17 million — LOL — having raised over $180 million. The University of Alaska system braced for campus closures and layoffs after its operating budget was slashed by 41%. Coursera raised $109 million in venture company because investors are cray. LOL LOL LOL.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

.” “Free College” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The California Community Colleges announced Tuesday that the Board of Governors Fee Waiver program, which provides nearly half of the system’s 2.1 Via Motherboard : “ New System Knows How Hard You’re Thinking Based on Thermal Imaging.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

” Via The New York Times : “Judge, Citing Inequality, Orders Connecticut to Overhaul Its School System.” Knewton has partnered with WebAssign. ” Also via The NYT : “Parents Sue After New York State Denies Money to ‘Failing’ Schools.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

” Gentrification is forcing poor people out of the city; segregated school systems follow them to new locations. There are links to “research” about the accreditation system in the “research” section below. Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Neither Knewton nor the Clinton campaign have confirmed the veracity of this leaked speech. Education Politics.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

senators released a bill Monday that would overturn the ban on a federal student-level data system that would allow for the tracking of employment and graduation rates. Via Edsurge : “ Pearson , an Investor in Knewton , Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products.” A bipartisan companion bill in the U.S.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette : “More than $300,000 spent on high-tech parking management system at UA.” .” Susan Crawrford argues “Why Universities Need ‘Public Interest Technology’ Courses.” Venture Capital and the Business of Education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. which powers universities' disciplinary record systems, pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to hack into the computer systems of competitors and steal their information.

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