The Knewton Blog

When redesigning the new syllabus for our GMAT prep course, I became somewhat nostalgic for how software upgrades used to work. Remember when you used to choose whether software you used every day should be upgraded? Once enough new features became available or you couldn’t live with a certain bug anymore, you would go to CompUSA, pick up a new set of floppies and install.  You could go for years with an outdated version of… Read more

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The adaptive learning engine that we’re building at Knewton is part of a larger trend of adaptive approaches to some of the world’s biggest problems. Rather than rely on rules that are etched in stone — rules that frequently have no bearing on the situation at hand — an adaptive approach responds to the environment. It reacts dynamically to what’s actually going on. It, well, adapts. In New York, the grueling morning commute takes the… Read more

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Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to code their own animation, interactions and data visualization. It shows tons of potential for fun, interactive educational and gaming applications. Check out the project gallery to see some examples, ranging from the silly to the sublime. Project initiators Ben Fry and Casey Reas say they made it “to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as… Read more

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