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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. And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials. According to a study by U.S.

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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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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?

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. …This is key to its advantage over traditional business models when it comes to data, since a platform positions itself (1) between users, and (2) as the ground upon which their activities occur, which thus gives it privileged access to record them.

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

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Here’s how Google describes it : “ The Chromebook App Hub , an online resource to help educators, administrators and developers work together to learn about Chromebook apps and activity ideas for schools. Developers Resource Page – a resource page for app developers to access best practices and policies.