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.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2015

Adaptive learning provider Knewton has unveiled Personalized Print Learning Solutions with HP to make adaptive learning materials seamlessly available across print and digital platforms. Digital Learning and Tools News Online Learning Top News' Students can learn using printed and/or digital adaptive content.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Recent dealmaking news includes acquisitions by Apple and Excelligence Learning, and partnership between Pearson and Knewton. Really Good Stuff is a multi-channel marketer of classroom products and teaching tools used primarily in grades K-8. The Knewton-powered enVisionMATH2.0 has purchased Really Good Stuff.

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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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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 16, 2016

As an online learning tool, Listen Current fits well into blended learning, but I wanted to learn more about how schools are adopting it and how we as a company can be more attractive to schools using blended learning. And companies like Knewton are targeting schools taking a personalized approach.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It has since added other features, including attendance trackers, gradebooks and presentation tools, to build what it calls an “active learning platform” that lets students interact with their instructors and materials. Wiley, for example, purchased Knewton and zyBooks just two months apart in 2019 to bolster its digital offerings.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2019

TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling by Emily Tate On June 30, Amazon shut down TenMarks, a popular online math and writing tool. 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

MAY 26, 2020

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). There’s Wiley, better known in academia and research, which recently acquired Knewton and zyBooks , to sell online higher-ed courseware.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In the case of Woongjin Book Club, a reading and tutoring service provided by Woongjin ThinkBig, the tool gathers and analyzes data from the digital books, quizzes and activities that a child engages with. He added that its Korean business is already cashflow positive, and expects to reach that milestone for its U.S.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Then there’s another aspect of this, which is looking at the ways that these tools can help take on other challenges that universities often face. Ones used directly for academics (like Knewton) or ones that are non-academic? With Knewton, that is this notion of personalized and adaptive instruction. I am deeply concerned.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. The two companies were also among the 10 companies that raised the most funding in 2017 as well.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One example is Knewton , an AI-powered platform that tailors personalized lesson plans to students. Recently, a new AI tool was released called GPT-3. These so-called “adaptive” or “personalized” AI-infused learning platforms are increasingly being introduced into schools and universities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

For Brian Fitzgerald, what began as a newborn side project in 2012—when he was working at edtech startup Knewton—has become a fully-grown venture of its own. The capital will help the company expand its curriculum and coaching services, build more tools to support parents, and recruit more Tinkergarten organizers to join its ranks.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And as they revise, they can see how long learners spent looking at that passage and other details about how they moved through the digital tool, since every action leaves breadcrumbs to analyze. As a result, educators have been forced to rethink how they teach using digital instructional tools and practices.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

A bundle that includes access to its other online tools, including MyLab and Mastering, costs about $79. The goal, she says, is to “make our tools more versatile in terms of how we help students learn.” Today, companies like Pearson and Cengage bundle digital content with other online tools that some students are required to use.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Its latest act: making a strategic investment in Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), a San Francisco-based startup that offers open-source tools for building and delivering digital tests. The company offers a suite of tools used to create, deliver and generate reports from digital assessments. A closed market doesn’t grow.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

Increasingly, Asian companies are also investing abroad to find fresh ideas and tools to bring to their local markets. 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.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

He writes: To me, both cyberspace and OER are tools that I think can be used to generate positive outcomes, but can also (very clearly I think) be used to generate outcomes I don’t support, like political polarization or business models that sell us back our experiences rather than proprietary content. (We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

You have Weld North being bought by Silver Lake in 2018 (and now actively pursuing digital curriculum tools ) and Cambium being bought by Veritas Capital. Another publisher, Wiley, bought Knewton and Zybooks in a span of two months. There was a ton of activity in the K-12 space in 2017 and 2018, and a lot of stuff that got done then.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

Can adaptive platforms (such as ALEKS or Knewton) help students learn the facts and enable the teachers to guides? Some tools are adaptive, but they’re saying they’re “AI” [but we still have a ways to go.]. In some heavily regulated markets— education and medicine, for instance—more explanatory tools will have to be developed.

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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.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

As the Stanford News describes it, the tool works like such: "They did not create virtual keys that the fingertips must find; they made keys that find the fingertips. Online video portal Udemy announced that it has raised $3 million Adaptive learning company Knewton announced a massive round of fundraising: $33 million. Not a reader.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Knewton ( mind-reading robo tutor in the sky ) – $157.25 One could look at companies that made major shuffles in the executive boardrooms: a new CEO at Coursera , the departure of Coursera’s chief product officer , a new CEO at Knewton , the departure of Altschool’s COO , for instance. Kaltura (video) – $166.1

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Today the latest buzz revolves around machine learning, which education technologists claim can support more precise tools. 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. Or does it?)

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The presentation software SlideRocket announced SlideRocket EDU this week, making its tools available to students and teachers via the Google Apps Marketplace. The online study tool StudyBlue has launched a new Facebook app called " Friends with Brainefits." of Text-Messaging at School A Big Step for Gesture-Based Learning?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

More often than not, these platforms also come with a series of tools that enable their users to build their own products, services, and marketplaces. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.).

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Hansen's Link to Tech

MARCH 25, 2015

Check out this great infographic from Knewton to learn more about blended learning (I also embedded at the bottom of this post). The application EDpuzzle is a great teacher and/or student utilization and creation tool to find great educational video resources, add stopping points for surveys/assessments, audio input, and commenting.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2017

The conference also welcomes the return of familiar faces in new gigs: former Knewton CEO is now with Bakpax, and Los Angeles Unified’s former superintendent John Deasy will share plans for rebuilding prisons to better serve incarcerated youths. Kamau Bell. This is the week when everyone—us included—is finally locking in the calendars.

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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. ” More via The NYT.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

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. pic.twitter.com/Rco19cwB04 — Karen Cuthbert

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

“ Can an Online Tool Depolarize Campus Discussions? “ Mind-reading robot tutor in the sky ” company Knewton has raised $25 million from these suckers: Triple Point Capital, Accel, Atomico, Bessemer Venture Partners, FirstMark Capital, First Round Capital, Founders Fund, and Sofina. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” “Starting this month, the wealthiest athletic departments have a new tool to help them attract and retain the best athletes – the ability to cover the full cost of summer school for students who are on any form of athletic aid,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. Purdue boasted that Course Signals increased retention by 21%, making it an incredibly effective tool. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” “ University of Michigan adds an automated text-analysis tool to a growing program intended to give more students a chance to learn through writing,” Inside Higher Ed reports. “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

He’s a partner at Founders Fund, which has invested in Knewton, AltSchool, Uversity, ResearchGate, If You Can, Upstart, Declara, and Affirm. e.g. “ Supporting English Language Learners with Next-Gen Tools.” But that’s all ad hominem and is irrelevant to the future of education.

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