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Dror Ben-Naim – Nov 14, 2018To realize the true potential of digital learning, we must first change the software architecture at the heart of the education ecosystem. In technology, the only thing constant is change. While technology itself is changing rapidly — just consider the computing power of the average smartphone compared to a desktop 20 years ago — so, too, are user expectations. But...
Continue Reading[Republished with permission from the Inspark Teaching Network] Ivy Tech Community College and Mohave Community College, two Inspark Network members received prestigious $10,000 Faculty-Led...
Ashley Coolman This October and November, Professors Gangadhara Prusty and Robin Ford from UNSW Sydney are returning to offer two popular engineering mechanics courses through the...
Ashley Coolman SAN FRANCISCO, July 31, 2018 – New York University has announced Smart Sparrow as the winner of its first-ever Algorithm for Change competition, designed...
Ashley Coolman Foundations of Science, a collaborative project between the Smart Sparrow Learning Design Studio, ACTNext by ACT, Inc., and Arizona State University, has been announced...
Ashley Coolman PhET Interactive Simulations at University of Colorado Boulder, today, announced a collaboration with the adaptive learning company Smart Sparrow. The partnership will enable science...
Chelsea Goldsmith Our clients, and their students’ needs, continually push us to evolve the learning experiences we design and the platform features we provide to enable...
Sami Derradji Smart Sparrow is proud to announce that two exciting projects we’ve had the pleasure to work on are advancing the final rounds of judging...
Chelsea Goldsmith In teaching and learning, not all questions are created equal. Some questions have one objectively correct response, while others are subjective with an infinite...
David Copeman ACT, the nonprofit developer of the ACT® test and other assessments taken by millions of individuals annually worldwide, has made a $7.5 million strategic...
Ashley Coolman More instructors are voicing a desire to provide mobile learning experiences for their students. Which we understand, since digital natives already spend 20% of...
Ashley Coolman The use of real-time analytics continues to gain momentum in higher education, and with good reason — getting immediate insight into whether students are...
Ashley Coolman Smart Sparrow today announced $4 million in new funding to support the expansion of their popular instructional design and courseware platform. This funding round...
Ashley Coolman As technology evolves, learning designers have new tools to think about new, different ways to engage learners online. Today, we added six advanced input...
David Copeman Smart Sparrow is excited that the CSIRO Inspark Australia project has been selected by PWC as one of 20 ground-breaking initiatives set to transform...
Jazmin Mignaquy Market Wired Adaptive Learning Pioneer Smart Sparrow Launches First Instructional Design Platform, to Allow Faculty and Instructional Designers to Create Engaging and Adaptive Online...
Jazmin Mignaquy LearnX Impact Awards An exceptional collaboration between subject matter experts, instructional designers and developers. In conjunction with Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, Smart...
Jazmin Mignaquy True commitment to developing market-leading adaptive courseware for the K-12 sector. Smart Sparrow is pleased to announce its first Gold Preferred Partnership with Dimensional...
Jazmin Mignaquy Campus Technology Work is moving forward on a “smart science network” intended to transform how science is taught and learned. Arizona State University was...
Jazmin Mignaquy Forbes A new era of learning which might just change the face of postsecondary pedagogy Higher education has seen a proliferation of new models...
Jazmin Mignaquy Inside Higher Ed Adaptive eLearning platform empowers Prof. Ariel Anbar to teach science in classes of up to 400 students in a rich, interactive...
Jazmin Mignaquy Computerworld InSpark Science Network teaches with games and adaptive sims Smart Sparrow, in partnership with Arizona State University (ASU), has been selected in the...
Jazmin Mignaquy Gates Foundation Next generation challenge aims to develop personalized courseware that improves outcomes for low-income postsecondary students Seattle, September 30, 2014 – The Bill...
Jazmin Mignaquy Market Wired Teacher-Centered Design Approach Results in New Authoring Environment SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwired – Sep 9, 2014) – Smart Sparrow, an ed-tech company based...
Jazmin Mignaquy Forbes The following narrative is famous in the design world: A man named Sam Farber noticed that his wife’s arthritis made it difficult for...
Jazmin Mignaquy Wired One of the great ironies of online learning is that a tool created to foster personalized learning is actually quite impersonal, in practice....
Jazmin Mignaquy ZDNet Central Queensland University is giving its distance education students the ability to conduct practical laboratory studies of the human body through an online...
Jazmin Mignaquy ABC News – The Drum The furore over the Abbott Government’s proposed deregulation of Australia’s higher education sector misses one critical point: deregulation across...
Jazmin Mignaquy Jones & Bartlett Learning, an Ascend Learning company, and a world-leading provider of instructional, assessment, and learning-performance management solutions for the secondary, post-secondary, and...
Jazmin Mignaquy San Francisco, April 22, 2014 Today, Smart Sparrow, (www.smartsparrow.com) a platform that lets educators create rich, interactive and adaptive learning experiences, announced in collaboration...
Jazmin Mignaquy Higher education is in the midst of a kind of Renaissance. A flurry of activity and experimentation around adaptive learning is taking place on...
Jazmin Mignaquy TechCrunch For most students, learning within the traditional confines of the educational system has been something to be endured, rather than something that’s just...
Jazmin Mignaquy Nursing Review “Health training is about to take a great leap forward with the launch of a virtual learning laboratory that pools a huge...
Jazmin Mignaquy NG Connect Program “We are in the midst of a global transformation in education, fuelled by online technology. One of the slower industries to...
Jazmin Mignaquy ABC: Business Week “It’s one of the fastest growing niches in the start-up sector, Small creative companies are adapting technology to revolutionise many areas...
Jazmin Mignaquy The Australian “This week we officially launch the Biomedical Education Skills and Training Network, or aptly, the BEST Network. In doing so, we are...
Jazmin Mignaquy Australian Financial Review “Just as Google and Facebook let advertisers tailor their messages based on our online behaviour, the same type of technology is...
Jazmin Mignaquy Computerworld “Smart Sparrow uses games and virtual labs to teach maths and science to high school students. Every student will be able to learn...
Jazmin Mignaquy Professor Ariel Anbar “With billions of galaxies in the known universe, each containing billions of stars, what do you think the odds are that...
Jazmin Mignaquy Smart Sparrow is proud to announce our successful bid, lead by UNSW, for the Smart Science initiative as part of the Australian Maths and...
Jazmin Mignaquy Our silver learning impact award “An Australian eLearning platform that emulates the educational benefits of one-on-one tutoring has won a major global award for...
Jazmin Mignaquy Dror Ben-Naim The Chronicle of Higher Education “Imagine more than 1,000 nurses learning how to use defibrillators at once, each delivering shocks to a...
Jazmin Mignaquy The Australian Financial Review “While MOOCs offer online learning in a linear fashion – usually with short videos each followed by a multiple choice...
Jazmin Mignaquy Smart Sparrow’s CEO Dr. Dror Ben-Naim spoke at the conference and accepted the award on behalf of the company. “The fourth annual Tech 23...
Jazmin Mignaquy The Australian Dr Ben-Naim and his partners are now pushing the barriers for learning by developing and commercialising their online Smart Sparrow intelligent tutoring...
Jazmin Mignaquy Sydney Morning Herald “Key medical institutions have joined forces to liberate health education from its current physical limitations and have secured $4.5 million to...
Jazmin Mignaquy Computerworld “New South Wales’ Biomedical Education Skills and Training (BEST) network also received funding for a $3 million biomedical education, skills and training project...
Jazmin Mignaquy Sydney Morning Herald “Using its $3.3million grant, tech company Smart Sparrow will operate the BEST e-learning platform that will incorporate laboratory learning, online lectures...
Jazmin Mignaquy Computerworld “Smart Sparrow has received a $3.3 million grant to trial virtual learning tools and teaching resources for university students across Australia using the...
Jazmin Mignaquy Business Insider “The National Broadband Network (NBN) Enabled Education and Skills Services Program announced $3.3 million for a new national biomedical education initiative to...
Jazmin Mignaquy Computerworld “Technology is changing the face of university education, with virtual learning now becoming an essential part of ‘hands on’ degrees such as medicine,...
Jazmin Mignaquy Smart Sparrow launched at the first international UNSW Adaptive eLearning Forum. The Forum had leading academics from Australia and the U.S come together to...
Jazmin Mignaquy The Australian “If academics don’t take a responsible role in shaping the new strategy that goes with new technologies, then we are going to...
Jazmin Mignaquy Sydney Morning Herald “We have an idea. Let’s stop lecturing, let’s outsource training to computer screens and let’s concentrate on mentoring; that is, putting...
Jazmin Mignaquy Sydney Morning Herald “Why persist with a teaching model dating back to the 1200s when alternative, superior digital communications tools are evolving so rapidly...
Jazmin Mignaquy The Conversation “In higher education, we’ve been talking about “e-learning” for years. But, in practice, we have mostly been teaching in the same way...
Jazmin Mignaquy Sydney Morning Herald “The Smart Sparrow platform – dubbed an example of adaptive e-Learning – can be used by professors to develop customised applications...
Jazmin Mignaquy Computerworld Smart Sparrow has set out to revolutionise e-learning in Australia. We can harness adaptive e-learning tools, which grade student presentations and can assess...
Jazmin Mignaquy New South Innovations “Smart Sparrow have announced a significant round of venture capital investment to accelerate its online Intelligent Tutoring e-learning platform. Smart Sparrow,...
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