eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2015

Personalized print learning solutions could help close the gap between online, print worlds by letting publishers and teachers tailor materials for students’ individual needs. Students can learn using printed and/or digital adaptive content. Digital Learning and Tools News Online Learning Top News'

Knewton 40

Knewton Adaptive Learning Smartphone Online Learning 40

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

Knewton 40

Knewton Edmentum Company Professional Learning 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. Knewton, an adaptive learning engine that became a digital courseware company, was reportedly bought by Wiley for way less than it raised. Some companies count their accelerator funding into their subsequent seed rounds.

EdTech 147

EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 147

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

TAL Invests in Knewton: TAL Education Group (NYSE: XRS ), a K-12 after-school tutoring services provider in China, announced a strategic investment in New York-based Knewton , a global provider of adaptive learning products. Knewton has an established international footprint. -based school provider.

Knewton 40

Knewton Kaplan Learning Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). .” But “personalization” doesn’t (necessarily) require a platform.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

. “For online lenders , it’s suddenly touch-and-go,” says Techcrunch. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.” Remember what I’ve said: watch the student loan space.). ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech). Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. Ferreira boasted at a Department of Education “Datapalooza” in 2012 that “We literally know everything about what you know and how you learn best, everything. Socorro Dove.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145