The Knewton Blog

Jay Mathews has a piece in The Washington Post this week that highlights a common challenge in ed tech. Many schools now partner with sites where students’ assignments can be easily followed online. This is great for kids who routinely forget to write down assignments, and it’s great for parents whose children struggle to stay on task. One problem, though, is that some teachers aren’t embracing the change. Mathews tells the story of a mother… Read more

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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  You could go for years with an outdated version of… Read more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 syllabus page is the lynchpin of any GMAT course. It’s where you land after logging in, and it’s where you manage all the information you need to get the most out of class: homework, assessment tests, practice tests, live class, office hours. It’s the bread to your butter. The moon over your hammy. Well, you get the point. We’ve just wrapped up an effort to make the syllabus experience a more student-centered one, and… Read more

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