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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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The following year, Knewton was bought in a deal that has become a poster child for education technology hype. ACT, the group best known for its assessment used in college admissions, invested $7.5 One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. Founded in 2011, Smart Sparrow had raised about $23.5 million in venture capital.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 19, 2015

Knewton has established partnerships with companies in about 20 countries outside the United States, where demand for ed-tech is growing.

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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

APRIL 26, 2017

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. EduLab , a subsidiary of JIEM, a Japanese research and assessment provider. (It That’s the strategy for.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

And, on the Kaplan side of the equation, the deal appears to be an assessment that the long-term future of building profitable businesses in education is more about servicing universities than in owning and operating them.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Kidaptive first entered the edtech market in 2012 with Leo’s Pad, a game-based learning app that offered mini-games and puzzles to assess cognitive skills in young children. Once the industry’s poster child for adaptive learning, Knewton boasted working with dozens of publishers, including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Back in the U.S.,

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

WebAssign, Knewton Form Partnership: WebAssign , provider of digital instructional solutions for faculty and students, has formed an alliance with adaptive learning company Knewton , according to a statement. “We’re ” Inspired Acquires International School of Europe Group: H.I.G.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Additionally, Google Classroom integrates with numerous other educational technologies, such as virtual learning apps and external assessment tools, allowing educators to create a more diverse and engaging learning experience. is versatile and can be used across subjects and grade levels, from elementary education to higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it. The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it. The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Online video portal Udemy announced that it has raised $3 million Adaptive learning company Knewton announced a massive round of fundraising: $33 million. The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). The company has raised some $77.5 million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2017

For what it’s worth, investment analyst firm CB Insights predicts that funding this year will not exceed that 2015 level , but one of the reasons I like to track the data myself is that everyone’s numbers and everyone’s assessment of the industry seem to be different, depending in part on “what counts” as ed-tech.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” ” The company: Questar Assessment, Inc. . “ Personality Tests Are Failing American Workers,” says Cathy O’Neil in a Bloomberg op-ed.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

“ 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. Writing assessment company Writable has raised $3.2 The company has raised $182.3

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

” That’s the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam (a.k.a. Via Edsurge : “ Pearson , an Investor in Knewton , Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products.” Testing, Testing… Via The Post and Courier : “ Citadel cadets score low on a critical-thinking exam.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.” . “ College textbooks are going the way of Netflix,” Quartz predicts in part 2 of a ridiculously silly series on the future of the university. ” The startup is called Learning Beautiful. .”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Testing, Testing… “Big changes ahead for how California assesses school performance,” KPCC reports. Knewton has partnered with WebAssign. More on sports-related lawsuits in the sports section below. And more on how team losses affect sentencing of juveniles in the research section below. This is a great headline. .

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

IHE blogger John Warner responds : “Algorithmic Assessment vs. Critical Reflection.” “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Despite Forged Signature, Bethune-Cookman U.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. 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

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. But that’s all ad hominem and is irrelevant to the future of education. Via Boing Boing : “JJ Abrams urges Paramount to drop its lawsuit over fan Star Trek movie.”

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