Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow
Tony Wan, EdSurge, 2020/01/22
The lede is about Pearson's acquisition of Sparrow, an adaptive learning company, but the bulk of this article provides a lot of useful background about boat Sparrow's approach and into Pearson's activities in the ed tech space, and in particular, the Global Learning Platform, which is the adaptive-learning engine of the company. More...