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. And even before the management change, the company had quietly started building a huge library of courses bolted to its adaptive engine. per month.

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Knewton Strategy OER Pearson 121

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. No industry analyst we spoke with believes the sale price was anywhere near what Knewton had raised.

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Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 145

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Should the Nelson deal pass, Top Hat will boast more than 1,000 titles in its library. There’s Wiley, better known in academia and research, which recently acquired Knewton and zyBooks , to sell online higher-ed courseware. More than 90 percent of its users are in the U.S.,

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Knewton Company Course OER 136

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 63

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That). Siegler: “ The End of the Library.” Students would be required to pay.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Via PBS Newshour : “GOP reinstates usage of ‘ illegal alien ’ in Library of Congress ’ records.” The School Library Journal reports that “ New York DOE Green Lights Amazon eBook Deal.” “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” million total.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

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. This week: “ OpenStax Partners with panOpen to Expand OER Access.” But that’s all ad hominem and is irrelevant to the future of education.

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 53