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. Kibby has big claims of his own, however, when it comes to how aggressively Knewton plans to compete with major textbook publishers.
eSchool News
AUGUST 30, 2015
‘Friendly robot-tutor in the sky’ delivers on-demand, hyper-personalized learning. Adaptive learning provider Knewton has launched a free, open personalized learning platform. Think of it as a friendly robot-tutor in the sky,” said Jose Ferreira, Knewton founder and CEO. Knewton does not sell student personal data.
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Knewton has decided to step down from the perch and lay low—for now. Ferreira’s decision marks the end of a nearly nine-year run at Knewton, where he strived to build technology to pinpoint what students know, don’t know and should learn next. So it comes as a surprise that the founder and CEO of.
EdTechTeacher
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
One example is Knewton , an AI-powered platform that tailors personalized lesson plans to students. For example, AV1 is a distance-learning robot in the UK that allows children suffering from long-term illness to attend school.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 21, 2018
Once the industry’s poster child for adaptive learning, Knewton boasted working with dozens of publishers, including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Arena says he’s familiar with Knewton, adding that his team is “proceeding slowly and cautiously” in its external partnership and business development work.
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. Sinovation also funds companies in other technology sectors including robotics and Big Data.) edtech startups.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Ones used directly for academics (like Knewton) or ones that are non-academic? With Knewton, that is this notion of personalized and adaptive instruction. And so what Knewton does—and what any personalized and adaptive technology does—is, you design tasks for students to do in the interface.
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