Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2024
In 2015, he famously criticized promises about what was then the latest in AI for education — a tool from a company called Knewton. The CEO of Knewton, Jose Ferreira, said his product would be “like a robot tutor in the sky that can semi-read your mind and figure out what your strengths and weaknesses are, down to the percentile.”
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. Manufacturing Trends.
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Edsurge
MAY 9, 2017
Sure, there are aspects of the college world that seems worthy of disruption, and colleges face serious challenges: flat enrollment trends and demographic headwinds; appropriate concerns about debt levels and increasing costs; and growing numbers of struggling institutions.
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.
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. There is much more of a trend we are seeing socially, where kids are spending more time with technology or indoors,” Fitzgerald says.
Edsurge
AUGUST 13, 2019
Fuller, who has covered the edtech industry for over a decade, recently shared her take on current trends on edtech mergers and acquisitions. If you look at the trends in higher-ed publishing, and the challenges they have faced as the transition to digital has taken longer than expected, this just makes a lot of sense.
Edsurge
JANUARY 18, 2018
That said, this will be the year that OER goes mainstream thanks to the launch of Cengage’s OpenNow, the other publishers’ inevitable response, and increased efforts of new courseware providers like Top Hat and Knewton. How much consolidation—in mergers and acquisitions, and closures—of colleges and universities will we see in the new year?
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