Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. PIRG obtained 52 contracts between 31 colleges and major publishers, including Cengage, McGraw-Hill and Pearson.

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Pearson Accessibility Course Report 159

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

For Pearson, the world’s largest education company, some of its recent tumult in past years have been self-imposed, even deliberate, under the helm of John Fallon. But last year, Pearson posted a profit , the first sign that its rocky journey to transform itself into a digital-focused learning company may have turned the corner.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. As part of the deal, most of its staff will join Pearson. million in venture capital.

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Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 129

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last May, major textbook publisher Pearson indicated it was mulling a sale of the U.S. In Pearson’s 2017 full-year results report , the publisher stated that “we have concluded the strategic review of our US K12 courseware business and have classified the business as held for sale.” In the K-12 market, it delivered 25.3

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Forecasters expect 5G access to increase more dramatically through 2019 , with the number of 5G devices becoming more ubiquitous in 2020. Video has become a major educational tool for the next generation of students, 59 percent of whom report YouTube as their preferred educational method, Pearson reports. and Palo Alto, Calif.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

One is by integrating real-time labor market data into easily accessible platforms that provide students with accurate and actionable information. To address this, innovative career exploration tools such as Pearson Career Explorer leverage gamification and immersive experiences.

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Industry Pearson Gamification Assessment 135

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2018

Microsoft’s Learning Tools for OneNote already create accessibility by supporting students with disabilities and learning differences. These lessons can then be published on Microsoft Teams and accessed by students anywhere, anytime. Office 365 Updates Drive Personalized Learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

Pearson probably still won’t buy your startup. Today, the publisher announced the launch of Pearson Ventures, a $50 million fund earmarked for education technology startups raising Series A and B rounds. The fund is framed as an effort to “future proof the company,” says Owen Henkel, managing director of Pearson Ventures.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Accessed and awarded online, micro-credentials leverage an online technology platform to provide educators competency-based, on-demand, personalized, and shareable opportunities to demonstrate and be recognized for their professional learning. Brenda Pearson Director of Professional Learning, Clark County Education Association.

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Pearson Education Professional Learning Assessment 266

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2023

(CAE), a leader in designing innovative performance tasks for measurement and instruction of higher order skills, today announced the immediate availability of its College and Career Readiness Assessment (CCRA+) through a non-exclusive partnership with Pearson [FTSE: PSON.L], the world’s leading learning company.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

Make no mistake about it – capturing the attention of students has become harder and harder because of the access that many of them have to knowledge, games, and each other through technology. Pearson Education, Inc. The struggle is real as the former is sometimes emphasized as a result of a school or district’s focus. Ormrod, J.E.

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Learning Pearson Elementary Social Media 419

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Yesterday IHE published an article about the “ inclusive access ” programs offered by most major textbook publishers. ” What problem does the inclusive access model purport to solve? .” ” What problem does the inclusive access model purport to solve? The inappropriately high cost of textbooks.

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OER Accessibility Pearson MOOC 249

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

That encompasses “ inclusive access ” material, a sales model that leads to content being delivered to students on the first day of class and then being charged for it as part of their tuition and fee payments. Seventy-three percent of students now report being assigned free or non-paid material, the report says.

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Course Pearson Secondary Report 216

Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This is especially evident over the decade, as schools have increasingly adopted mobile learning as a signature initiative using BYOD and 1:1 programs and investing in tablets to provide their students with access to a wealth of relevant educational content and learning opportunities. Mobile students. Preventing security and privacy issues.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Montero also has access to data collected directly from the online assessments he conducts, which give him further insight into where lessons should be directed. . You have to let go of some of the micromanagement,” Montero says in a study conducted by Pearson. by Eli Zimmerman.

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Data Assessment Adaptive Learning Microsoft 394

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Nearly 200 colleges face federal civil rights investigations opened in 2019 about whether they are accessible and communicate effectively to people with disabilities. Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards.

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Social Media Accessibility CMS Facebook 122

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

One example cited was a Pearson A/B test that earned negative media coverage a few years ago. As part of the experiment, students at randomly selected colleges were shown encouraging messages after choosing an incorrect answer during online quizzes, and Pearson later published a paper on its “social-psychological interventions.”

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

A recent Pearson Student Mobile Device Survey clearly states that the number of students who regularly use a tablet has grown compared to the previous year. What makes them particularly appealing to students is the fact that they can access learning apps on tablets. The answer is Brasilia, FYI).

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Gamification Social Media Smartphone Tablets 234

EdNews Daily

MARCH 16, 2019

Khan Academy is a nonprofit that believes online education should be excellent, accessible, and free to use for anyone in the world. Pearson Online. Many in our EdNews Daily community have worked as test administrators or scorers for Pearson in the past, but they have hundreds of other job possibilities as well. Khan Academy.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I’ve written about Pearson’s efficacy work in the past, and Ray Henderson’s twitter post this morning has prompted me to ponder and write a bit more. Just-in: @Pearson has just pubd white paper on their #Revel platform, as CEO @johnfallon committed. 5): What Pearson Means by Efficacy and Effectiveness.

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Pearson OER Comparison Case Study 60

eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

But Robin Pearson, the former head of publishing at The Lego Group, makes some excellent points in this blog : If you give kids the choice over what they want to read, many will pick books or mags about their favourite shows, games, toys or characters. I would take Pearsons thoughts a step further.

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Pearson Libraries Trends Report 86

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Perlego gives users access to a library of content, including digital textbooks. So far the company has won participation by major textbook publishers, including Palgrave, Wiley and Pearson. Perlego also has a free version that gives access to more than 50,000 public domain books such as "The Great Gatsby."

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Pearson Case Study Company Tablets 133

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In a recent lawsuit, an Illinois woman and her daughter accuse Pearson, the multinational publishing and education company, of exposing the information of more than 1 million students when it failed to detect or respond to a 2018 data breach. . Strong encryption reduces data risk, but accessing encrypted data requires a key.

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Data Student Data Privacy Pearson EdTech 242

The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

About four years ago, Pearson purchased the company that supported North Carolina’s Student data system called NC WISE. Pearson then informed the state that it was shutting down support for NC WISE. Naturally, North Carolina then purchased Pearson’s PowerSchool software to provide the state with a state-wide student data system.

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Pearson Data Software System 65

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. If they felt that Cengage is not as strong and Pearson is better, they kept with the Pearson.”

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 139

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Pearson and its Connections Academy , the fully online public school program serving K-12 students, announced last week the expansion of their college and early career program into more than 20 schools. bachelor’s degree programs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Interoperability certification gives teachers, students freedom to assign and use any Pearson content regardless of LMS. Leading IMS members like Pearson are committed to creating content and applications that “play nice” with one another so that accessing content from multiple sources and publishers is a unified, continuous experience.

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Pearson LMS Course Data 51

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Hoboken, NJ. – Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L) Recognizing the demand for job-focused, skill-building and career exposure, Pearson understood the need to tailor opportunities to middle and high school students and launched the Connections Academy college and early career readiness offerings in 2023. bachelor’s degree programs.

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Pearson Coursera Industry Secondary 55

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. And I want to do it worldwide.”

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 90

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pearson Education did something it’s never done before. David Porcaro, director of Learning Design at Pearson, says the decision to collect and share these learning design principles “is like putting the ingredients list on food labels. Pearson released the set of principles under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0

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Pearson Industry Learning EdTech 60

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

51Talk (or “China Online Education Group”), China’s leading online education platform and the first from China listed on the NYSE (NYSE: COE), was invited to attend the summit alongside education industry leaders such as Pearson, Amazon, and YouTube.

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MOOC Education Industry Company 211

Iterating Toward Openness

DECEMBER 13, 2024

I’m interested in solving problems of access and effectiveness in education. Below is my current best thinking about how open education and generative AI can come together to help us make progress on problems of access and effectiveness. As they say, you should fall in love with your problem , not your solution.

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Meeting OER Education Pearson 148

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

For example, in mid-July, publishing giant Pearson announced it will adopt a “digital first” strategy for updating college course materials. A third may be the growth of so-called inclusive-access programs. The survey includes responses from nearly 20,000 college students at 41 four-year and two-year institutions across 20 U.S.

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Course OER Pearson Survey 166

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Pearson, with a market cap of $8.5 Cengage is now betting its digital business on an annual subscription that gives students unlimited access to all of its digital textbook materials, along with online homework tools and study guides. The news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal , would create the second-biggest U.S.

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Pearson Company Adaptive Learning Report 167

Catlin Tucker

JULY 31, 2015

The simple animation is captivating and each book comes with a resource guide teachers can download to access discussion points and activities. We Give Books is a Pearson Foundation initiative that allows students to read books (no audio) for ages 4-10 years old. Read-to-Self Books.

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Elementary Pearson Common Core Blended Learning 150

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2022

The publisher has been middle of the pack in recent years, with stronger performance than McGraw Hill but not as good as companies like Pearson, says James Wiley, principal analyst at the research and advisory firm Eduventures. Obviously, the Veritas deal gives HMH access to capital, which is good for them, Wiley says.

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Pearson Company Adaptive Learning Report 159

edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2019

edWeb.net , an award-winning professional learning network, today joined forces with Pearson on its professional learning community, Assessment for Learning. ” Lisa Schmucki, the founder and CEO of edWeb.net, commented, “We’re delighted that Pearson will be sponsoring and hosting a community on assessment.

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