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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. student and teaching assistant, began building his own homegrown adaptive tutoring technologies. million last year from the U.S.

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Wiley to Acquire Knewton’s Assets, Marking an End to an Expensive Startup Journey

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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. Knewton’s CEO Kibby formerly served as president of McGraw-Hill’s Higher Education Group.)

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Pearson Signals Major Shift From Print by Making All Textbook Updates ‘Digital First’

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Public Interest Research Group, each new edition of a textbook cost 12 percent more than the previous one. It’s about time that legacy publishers are starting to adapt their model for the digital world,” says Nicole Allen, the director of open education for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.

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Heard, Overheard and Announced at ISTE 2016

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ABCMouse , who’s grouped in with the “big guys” because of its record-making $150M fundraising round , released its flagship K-12 product, ABCMouse for Schools. The company didn’t announce anything in tandem with ISTE, but did push the Swift coding app— Swift Playgrounds —for middle and high school students that got announced two weeks ago.

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100+ Ways to Use a Chromebook in the Classroom – SULS033

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Students will work in groups of two. Teachers can flip their classroom by using Google Forms to learn about ratios and proportions using Khan Academy videos and exercises. They receive instant feedback and a chance to revise their work for ongoing learning. 50 Video Lessons (hands-on learning with Kasey Bell).

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

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Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. If it doesn’t, it won’t, and it won’t deserve to.

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With Adaptive Tech, Students Are Saving Money and Learning More

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In addition, since classes always meet in a lab setting, the instructor has more flexibility to create learning activities not normally available in a traditional classroom or that feature a combination of lab, group, and lecture components. Are you using adaptive tools in other courses? What about challenges?