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News Corp acquires Wireless Generation. Is education the only goal? 23 November '10, 07:35am Follow Via Reuters, News Corp has announced that it has acquired privately-held Wireless Generation for a reported $360 million in cash. Wireless Generation makes educational apps for students and teachers to help build curricula and teach core concepts. News Corp bought Wireless Generation to bolster its offerings in the education technology sector. From the Wireless Generation site, here is how they describe what the company does: Wireless Generation creates innovative tools, systems, and services that help educators teach smarter.
With its mobile assessment software, the company invented a better way to give classroom assessments and make data-based instructional decisions. According to the press release, the executive team in place at Brooklyn-based Wireless Generation and co-founder Larry Berger will stay at the helm and keep a 10% stake in the in company. Don’t get me wrong, I think News Corp is very serious about education technology. McGraw-Hill: Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns : Book. Overview Main description Selected as one of the "Best Books on Innovation, 2008" by BusinessWeek magazine Named the "Best Human-Capital Book of 2008" by Strategy + Business magazine A crash course in the business of learning-from the bestselling author of The Innovator's Dilemma and The Innovator's Solution… "Provocatively titled, Disrupting Class is just what America's K-12 education system needs--a well thought-through proposal for using technology to better serve students and bring our schools into the 21st Century.
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