{"id":69406,"date":"2020-01-24T08:42:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T13:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69406"},"modified":"2020-01-24T08:49:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T13:49:50","slug":"pearson-bets-on-adaptive-learning-again-with-25m-acquisition-of-smart-sparrow-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/01\/24\/pearson-bets-on-adaptive-learning-again-with-25m-acquisition-of-smart-sparrow-wan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow [Wan]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2020-01-22-pearson-bets-on-adaptive-learning-again-with-25m-acquisition-of-smart-sparrow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0Tony Wan<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsparrow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Smart Sparrow<\/a>, which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Last week, Pearson\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/pearson-acquires-interactive-learning-technology-from-smart-sparrow-300987673.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">announced<\/a>\u00a0it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow\u2019s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In recent years, Ben-Naim says his team has been building the next iteration of its adaptive course-creation tool. Called\u00a0<a style=\"color: #ff6600;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsparrow.com\/aero\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">Aero<\/a>, the platform has been in the works since 2017. And though Aero has not been publicly released or announced, that was the technology that attracted Pearson, he adds.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow &#8212; from edsurge.com by\u00a0Tony Wan Excerpt: Smart Sparrow, which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. Last week, Pearson\u00a0announced\u00a0it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow\u2019s technology, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,28,115,302,32,71,3,119,482,825,195,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-cmslms","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-education-technology","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-law-schools","category-tools","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69407,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69406\/revisions\/69407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}