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Panorama

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Panorama Advanced Analytics provides the most powerful and feature rich analytical capabilities available today. With features such as advanced exceptions, custom formulas, advanced slicing and filtering controls, parameters, custom MDX wizards and much more, Panorama advances data analysis gives power to analysts that need to analyze data without any limitation while making the data analysis process as intuitive as possible with right click menus and intuitive user interface.

Below is a news article regarding Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s contribution to this start-up company

Applying Data Analytics to Education, Panorama Wins Mark Zuckerberg’s First Public Angel Investment

Pearson

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One of the leading companies in education, Pearson collaborates with institutions and educators to provide customized and personalized educational solutions and services that help to improve student outcomes. Leveraging advanced capabilities in data, analytics and adaptive learning, they enable institutions to analyze trends in student performance, track their achievement of learning objectives, and create a personalized and adaptive learning path for each student.

Pearson Learning Studio is a learning management system (LMS) for fully online programs. Pearson leverages insights gained from decades of data analytics – data from students, educators, administrators and institutions – to inform smarter content and smarter technologies. Serving over 9 million active users, Pearson LearningStudio offers the most extensive online learning data available. Coupled with powerful analytics tools, our customers can design more effective courses, train instructors to create more successful learning environments and drive students to behaviors that increase achievement.

Pearson MyLab & Mastering uses Adaptive Learning in several online higher education courses to continuously assesses student performance and activity in real time, using data and analytics, to personalizes content to reinforce concepts that target the student’s particular strengths and weaknesses.

Smart Sparrow

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Smart Sparrow is an Australian ed-tech start-up pioneering adaptive and personalized learning technology. Real-time Learning Analytics provide actionable insights into what students know, what misconceptions they may have, and how they are interacting with content. There are three levels of adaptivity that have been built into the platform in order to empower teachers – Adaptive Feedback based on what the student does and knows, Adaptive Pathways that offer varying sequences of content to each student, and the ability for an instructor to Adapt their Teaching – change the content based on an analysis of how their students learn.

Adaptive eLearning is a new learning and teaching medium that uses an Intelligent Tutoring System to adapt online learning to the student’s level of knowledge. Adaptive eLearning provides students with customised educational content and the unique feedback that they need, when they need it.

Tableau

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Schools need data to improve. But balancing the data, analysis and reporting requirements across a system of primary schools can be challenging. Tableau eases this burden by allowing anyone to perform sophisticated education analytics and share their findings with online dashboards. Tableau can also be a powerful research tool within the classroom, empowering students and teachers alike to see and understand their data through education dashboards.

Provide K-12 teachers with immediate, data-driven feedback on student performance
Create and share sophisticated district, school and teacher evaluations
Education reporting – put interactive reports online for parents and the public