27 Kasım 2013 Çarşamba

Intel Acquires Kno to Develop Interactive Textbooks, Curriculum


Chip-maker Intel’s schooling division aims to even more its push for speedy technology in classrooms and has acquired Kno, a top schooling application organization whose guiding mission is to change the way college students learn.


In accordance to Intel Blog’s Admin, the mission of Intel Education is to support the speedy technologies adoption in the classroom. It functions to create an ecosystem of hardware, computer software and digital content exclusively designed to aid college students learn and to offer educators the resources to effectively integrate engineering into the classroom.


Intel Education’s work is primarily based on in excess of a decade of encounter doing work with teachers and college students, assisting to prepare a lot more than 10 million teachers all around the world to deliver technological innovation into their classrooms. Intel Schooling appears forward combining its expertise with Kno’s wealthy content material so that collectively they can support teachers generate classroom environments and customized learning experiences that lead to student good results.


According to Ingrid Lunden and Rip Empson of TechCrunch, to date, Kno’s apps can be accessed via its iPad, Android and Windows seven and Windows 8 apps. The principal notion behind Kno is that the books are not only digitized but also incorporate additional attributes to support students and teachers assess their progress, share data with other folks and generally grow to be more engaged with the material.



“They are the exact same books, only smarter,” the organization notes on its web site.



TC learned that although the pricing of the deal stays unclear, the entire Kno group will be joining Intel as a result of the acquisition – with a single notable exception. The co-founder and CEO, Osman Rashid, will not be joining the firm. Even so, his ideas after the exit are unclear.



“He was certainly the figurehead behind it,” Galvin admitted later to TC in an interview. “[Staying on] was some thing that Osman and I talked about early in the process.”


“But the place I wanted to get Kno and exactly where Osman desired to take it had been two distinct items. His course was to proceed with a North American emphasis and I want to go worldwide and for us to go international, that’s about integrating with Intel’s income teams, doing work on bringing this to new markets,” he continued.



Moreover, it is not a new notion to use Kno for an global education perform, as the two firms had currently been operating together in markets like China on textbook digitizing initiatives. Kno was a natural companion and Intel Capital was amongst Kno’s listing of traders.



“It grew to become a lot more eye-catching to me to have them be a component of the portfolio rather than just a spouse,” explained Galvin.




Intel Acquires Kno to Develop Interactive Textbooks, Curriculum

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