McGraw-Hill Education Teams with Cerego to Power Adaptive Learning Experiences to Help K-12 Students Learn World Languages More Effectively
NEW YORK, Feb. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- McGraw-Hill Education, the learning science company, today announced that it has teamed with Cerego, the essential memory management tool, to power its adaptive learning experience for the K-12 world languages market. The collaboration will enable McGraw-Hill Education to enliven and deepen the learning experience for K-12 students studying world languages, an area that represents a key pillar of students' general mastery of literacy. McGraw-Hill Education selected Cerego because of its deep expertise and capabilities in the world languages market.
Adaptive technologies help students study more effectively and efficiently by guiding them through a personalized experience that continually responds to their needs and focuses their attention on what they need to learn the most, at precisely the time they need to learn it. McGraw-Hill Education's partnership with Cerego expands the company's position as a leader in delivering personalized learning experiences through adaptive technology, with the Cerego-powered experiences joining the company's two main families of adaptive products, LearnSmart and ALEKS.
The company will offer the Cerego-powered adaptive technologies in tandem with McGraw-Hill Education's core programs for the course, which can also be used in conjunction with LearnSmart. McGraw-Hill Education is the only provider of differentiated literacy solutions that empower teachers to precisely adapt literacy instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners.
"We are thrilled to collaborate with Cerego, given their proven track record in the field of language learning," said Sean Ryan, SVP at McGraw-Hill Education. "Multilingualism is an advantage in our globalized world. With this partnership, we will help students learn faster – even while on the go, retain capabilities longer, and perhaps contribute more to their long-term success."
"Language learning is a discipline that we feel very passionately about," said Andrew Smith Lewis, executive chairman and co-founder of Cerego. "Starting with Spanish, we're eager to integrate our adaptive learning technology within McGraw-Hill Education's well-renowned world language programs. This is a wonderful opportunity to create a highly personalized language learning experience for students across the country and to provide a layer of innovation that will encourage interest in and participation with course materials."
The first McGraw-Hill Education program to be powered by Cerego is Asi se dice for the Spanish market, with the Cerego-powered adaptive experience becoming available for classroom use beginning in Fall 2015. For more information, please visit https://www.mheonline.com/ceregodemo/.
About McGraw-Hill Education
McGraw-Hill Education is a learning science company that delivers personalized learning experiences to help students, parents, educators and professionals drive results. McGraw-Hill Education has offices across North America, India, China,Europe, the Middle East and South America, and makes its learning solutions available in more than 60 languages. Visit us at mheducation.com or find us on Facebook or Twitter.
About Cerego
Cerego is the essential memory management tool. We partner with great teachers, administrators and institutions to amplify growing minds everywhere. Our team is comprised of experts in adaptive learning and memory science. Through our core adaptive learning platform, web application and full suite of mobile applications, we have been helping students to enrich their lives, by learning and retaining knowledge more effectively for over a decade. Cerego is located in the San Francisco Bay Area and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit: http://cerego.com/
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Brian Belardi
McGraw-Hill Education
(646) 766-2951
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Jordan Bresler
Jones-Dilworth, Inc. for Cerego
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