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Using AI in the Classroom: 5 Ways to Transform Learning & Teaching

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Personalized Learning: Tailoring Education to Each Student Once your lesson is planned, delivering it in a way that engages every student can be a challenge. Traditional classrooms often follow a one-size-fits-all model, but AI-powered adaptive learning platforms can tweak lesson resources in real-time based on each student’s progress.

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Cengage, McGraw-Hill Agree to Merge to Become 2nd Biggest US Textbook Publisher

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Pearson, with a market cap of $8.5 Its acquisitions include Redbird Advanced Learning (a K-12 math, reading and writing curriculum provider) Area9 (an adaptive learning technology) and ALEKS (an online adaptive math program). The news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal , would create the second-biggest 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. And around 2017, publishers including Pearson that once used Knewton began to pull back.

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Hitting Reset, Knewton Tries New Strategy: Competing With Textbook Publishers

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Earlier this year Ferreira stepped aside as CEO, replaced by Brian Kibby , a veteran of major textbook companies including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. And even before the management change, the company had quietly started building a huge library of courses bolted to its adaptive engine.

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WHAT’S NEW

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New features include a web-based teacher console, automatic keyword library updates, GDPR compliance support, and more. PEARSON & LITTLEBITS ( www.pearson.com.) & ( littlebits.cc/education Impero will also discuss its recent update to Impero iSafeguard, its online safeguarding training solution for school staff.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Pearson Mudhol, High School Student, Meridian World School, Round Rock, Texas Let’s be candid: the education headlines from 2023 were bleak. We’re just beginning to fully comprehend the massive scope of learning loss wrought by school closures during the pandemic. New technology in the library or for your counselors?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. Pearson is Not a Platform. I’m not sure if we can still call Pearson “the world’s largest education company.” Pearson does not have a platform. But Pearson is not a platform.