eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The 2024 Educator Confidence Report highlights evolving challenges and opportunities in education, is based on responses from more than 1,200 educators, and touches on critical K-12 issues, including mental health, compensation concerns, and the growing role of digital technologies, including generative AI, in transforming classrooms.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

It is also important to point out the following: You don’t need technology to personalize learning. Putting all kids on a device simultaneously and having them watch a video or work on an adaptive learning tool is not personalization. There is not one best or right way to personalize.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In recent years, the nonprofit has invested in several education technology efforts around learning analytics and adaptive learning. million investment in Smart Sparrow , a company that offers a platform used by many higher-ed faculty members and instructors to develop online, adaptive courses and simulations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

The Australian company, now based in San Francisco, has signed on 150 universities, along with another 50 companies and organizations, for its “digital courseware platform,” the term that Ben-Naim is much more at ease with. More than 20,000 online courses have been created by over 8,000 educators, the company claims.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2021

an adaptive learning platform company with industry-leading expertise in learning science, early learning, and data analytics worldwide. Smith, who joined the company in November 2020. Those include ALEKS Corporation in 2013, the LearnSmart technology in 2014 and Redbird Advanced Learning in 2016.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Once known for a learning game, the Redwood City, Calif.-based based company now touts itself as a provider of adaptive-learning technologies for educational content providers. The company has refocused its business and research around what it calls its “Adaptive Learning Platform.” Back in the U.S.,

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 17, 2017

Going forward, Pearson “is developing its own in-house adaptive learning capability,” said a representative for the company. The post Pearson To Scale Back Partnership With Adaptive Learning Provider Knewton appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. The New York City-based company has raised more than $180 million in investment capital.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2016

In Spring 2016, faculty, support staff and administrators at Oregon State University met to candidly share their experiences with adaptive learning technology. These insights are valuable for faculty and administrators at other institutions and companies that are looking to partner with them. I hope you enjoy the videos.

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 17, 2019

Companies like Florida Power & Light and Pratt & Whitney partner with schools to train STEM instructors to teach them programming while working a paid internship. The adaptive learning paradigm that collects and learns from students’ data to improve teaching is a double-edged sword. Digital Ethics and Privacy.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2024

BOSTON – Adaptive learning company HMH today announced a refreshed brand that reflects its commitment to accelerating dynamic learning and helping educators create growth for every student. Learn more about HMH’s vision for K-12 classrooms here. Read more from Daniel here.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

The new company will retain the McGraw Hill name, but will be led by Michael Hansen, currently the CEO of Cengage. Like other established textbook publishers, both companies have reoriented their businesses around digital offerings. Banerjee told the Journal that taking the combined company public is a possibility.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2022

One of the largest of those companies will try to continue the transition as a private company, hoping that the extra capital and institutional knowledge will help. Executives of the company say the deal positions them for coming expansions. In the end, the company reported that about 57 percent of shares were sold to Veritas.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

He alleged that the university was requiring students in many microeconomics courses to buy a digital homework tool called MindTap so that the university would get for a grant from Cengage, the textbook company that makes it. The combined companies would form the second largest textbook publisher, behind Pearson.

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Marketplace K-12

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Jose, Ferreira, who launched the global adaptive technology company in 2008, will remain on the board of directors. The post Founder of Adaptive Learning Company Knewton to Leave CEO Position appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

For the second time in two months, Lexia Learning, a Rosetta Stone company (NYSE: RST) has had two of its literacy programs recognized as standouts in a prominent edtech award program. The company’s highly-regarded Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) was also named a finalist in the category for Best Literacy App or Tool.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. Now the company has pivoted, and it is poised to formally announce its own online courseware that will compete head-to-head with those publishing giants.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education. Some companies count their accelerator funding into their subsequent seed rounds.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

They’re so cozy, in fact, that the two companies have merged, and MyBuddy.ai As a part of the deal, half of his team—he and two others—will join the new parent company. In 2018, the company tried to expand its offering by creating and selling English courses. will become the brand for the combined entity.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 29, 2019

Rob Waldron, CEO of Curriculum Associates, assesses the K-12 marketplace of the future, while marking a major milestone at his company. The post Curriculum Associates’ CEO Reflects on K-12 Marketplace as Company Marks 50th Anniversary appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

McGraw-Hill Education has acquired Redbird Advanced Learning , a digital personalized learning company that offers courses in K-12 math, language arts, and writing and virtual professional development programs for educators. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

Not all parents have the luxury of working from home, and many households lack sufficient technology to support their children’s online learning. Baker’s experience was reflected in the results of a survey sent by BrightBytes, an education data company, from April to June 15.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 6, 2023

These tools offer a range of functionalities, from personalized learning modules to intelligent grading systems. The ability of AI to analyze vast amounts of data allows for the creation of adaptive learning platforms, tailoring content to individual student needs.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

When Wiley announced back in May that it had acquired Knewton, both companies kept mum on how much the deal was worth. That’s a hard hit for investors in the New York-based company, which had raised more than $180 million since its founding in 2008. Sources told EdSurge that it was in the $10 million range—and they were right.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 24, 2017

The infusion of funds will allow the Beijing-based English language provider to continue to grow and add teaching Mandarin to its services, the company says. Company VIPKID Raises $200 Million, Eyes Expansion appeared first on Market Brief. The post Chinese Ed.

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techlearning

JANUARY 16, 2019

Learning company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt today announced that it has acquired adaptive learning solution Waggle.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

The United States is expected to lead the charge, followed by countries in Asia and Europe, so it may come as no surprise that people interested in edtech are traveling from all over the world to learn from, sell to and acquire U.S. Limin Chen “They want adaptive learning tools, STEM products and learning management systems,” says Chen. “If

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

Throughout the past decade, Knewton ’s adaptive learning technology has been backed by some of the biggest names in the both the publishing and venture capital community. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings. content providers. Not all publishers hopped onboard.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

New and traditional publishers are trying to offer alternatives such as open educational resources (OER), or freely downloadable and adaptable learning materials. One company, Top Hat, is trying to shift away from that by opening up its marketplace of mostly OER materials to users for free. In 2017, Top Hat nabbed $7.5

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

One edtech company that has embraced an AI-plus-human-teacher approach is Squirrel AI Learning , a Chinese company that has opened over 2000 after-school learning centers in more than 400 cities across China in the past three years. It’s something many other education companies using AI can’t deliver either.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

What defines an exemplary edtech company that serves K-12 needs? While the edtech market continues to grow with innovative ways to engage students, not many companies provide products rooted in three decades of cognitive research that continue to provide solid returns on investment. In what domains has Carnegie Learning branched out?

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning? In “ Adaptive Literacy Learning 101 ,” presenters reviewed findings from Tech & Learning’s 2017 survey on adaptive learning and highlighted key points that everyone should know.

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Educational Technology Guy

JUNE 22, 2020

Blogs of EdTech Companies You won’t find any academic research, lesson plans, or hot education news on these websites. However, EdTech companies study the market, pay attention to trending topics or the latest advancements, and cover them in their blogs.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Our intention as a company and our mission is to prevent trauma for students,” says Terry Thoren, CEO Wonder Media , whose Storymaker software won Best Solution for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging. Congratulations to all of this year’s winners.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2023

Companies like Microsoft (Minecraft), Epic (Fortnite Creator) and Roblox have set up education divisions with ambitious goals. While access to devices remains an equity concern, we now have a glimpse of what deeply immersive learning with compelling worlds and storytelling might look like. coding) and soft skills (e.g.

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