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Why every education leader must be a tech visionary 21 May 2013 | 08:25 pm
Education, like many industries before it, is now having its internet moment. There are two great phases unfolding. The first is the shift to digital materials for use either in blended learning cours...
Welcome Rex, Dvora, Adam, Prithvi, and Shreya 17 May 2013 | 07:17 pm
Knewton welcomed five new Knerds this month. Rex Gibson is a Senior Engineer on the Analytics team. Rex is originally from Nebraska, attended Webster University in St. Louis, and has been living in Ne...
The coming adaptive world 23 Apr 2013 | 10:09 pm
This is the year of adaptive learning. Everyone is fired up about it, from Arne Duncan and Bill Gates to individual teachers and students the world over. Ironically, as the idea of adaptive learning i...
Featured ed effort: Neverware 23 Apr 2013 | 09:03 pm
The edtech industry is growing rapidly, with more and more startups aimed at creating apps and software to improve educational experiences for students. But for schools with outdated, slow computers a...
Welcome to seven new Knerds 10 Apr 2013 | 07:00 pm
Seven new people joined the Knewton team this month. We’re excited to have them all here. Illya Bomash is a Data Analyst on the Adaptive Learning team. Illya was born in Russia but has been living in ...
What personalized learning pathways look like at ASU 2 Apr 2013 | 09:45 pm
Knewton Math Readiness, a web-based developmental math course built on the Knewton Adaptive Learning Platform, creates a guided, self-paced environment in which live instruction is optimized around ta...
Why materials costs aren’t the problem in education 26 Mar 2013 | 05:44 pm
Students spend a lot of their day learning. They spend six or more hours in bricks-and-mortar classrooms each day, listening to teachers, talking with peers, and working with textbooks/software/techno...
NYC meetup explosion: tangible connections in a digital culture 25 Mar 2013 | 09:00 pm
Thanks to meetup.com, you can find a gathering to match every shade of identity, interest, career, and hobby you might have. For software engineers, there’s New York Software Engineers (1,800 members)...
Understanding content for efficient and effective learning 25 Mar 2013 | 05:45 pm
A thorough and nuanced understanding of educational content is central to the Knewton approach to adaptive learning. Every time we generate a recommendation for a student in a Knewton-enhanced course,...
How credit acceptance can jumpstart education innovation 27 Feb 2013 | 07:22 am
Education has always been resistant to change. It is such a high-stakes industry — right up there with food, shelter, and medicine in importance — that practitioners are reluctant to try unproven inno...
