Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

PIRG obtained 52 contracts between 31 colleges and major publishers, including Cengage, McGraw-Hill and Pearson. And a multi-year agreement between Pearson and the University of Florida set “minimum usage rates” of 10,400 enrollments in 2017, which jumped to 47,000 in 2018. Using open-records requests, U.S.

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Pearson Accessibility Course Report 161

Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Students are particularly excited about all of the new possibilities digital learning can offer. Why do kids love e-learning? 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. The answer is Brasilia, FYI).

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Gamification Social Media Smartphone Tablets 234

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Interoperability certification gives teachers, students freedom to assign and use any Pearson content regardless of LMS. IMS Global is a non-profit organization that sets standards for digital educational content. When we say we put digital content at teachers’ and students’ fingertips, that should be the reality.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Many colleges have adopted inclusive access models—while publishers like Pearson , McGraw Hill and Cengage have made them part of their switch to digital—to ensure students can access books at a discounted price.

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Course Pearson Secondary Report 216

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

One of the worst offenses of bad blended learning programs is simply not creating a strong blend between digital and non-digital learning. Some school systems think that providing students with a digital learning program to replace in-class instruction will eliminate the problems of poor teaching.

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Blended Learning Pearson Learning E-rate 147

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

During the pandemic, which Silagadze says created a “tailwind in terms of digital content adoption,” the number of students served grew from 2.7 These numbers still trail those from the likes of Pearson, which claimed 8 million subscribers in 2019 for its digital courseware platform. million to 3 million.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The principles were developed by the SIIA AI in Education Steering Committee, which includes AllHere, ClassDojo, Cengage, D2L, EdWeb.net, GoGuardian, InnovateEDU, Instructure, MIND Education, McGraw Hill and Pearson. “AI

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Pearson Education Industry Guidelines 131

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 17, 2020

Pearson announced a $25 million acquisition of an Australian digital learning company, and China-based VIPKid's raised $80 million in new venture capital funding. The post K-12 Dealmaking: Pearson Snaps Up Australian Company, VIPKid Raises $80 Million appeared first on Market Brief.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Education technology spans a broad category of classroom tools, spanning corporate learning, language learning, digital learning content and more. Over the past 3 years, the S&P has been up 24%, but publishers Pearson and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt have been down 58% and 32% respectively.

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Trends EdTech Pearson Case Study 138

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Few companies have tackled the full range of learners since the days when Pearson was touted as the world’s largest learning company. “We used to think about edtech globalization in one way—from the U.S. to the rest of the world,” she adds. “We We are now seeing truly global expansion strategies spotlighting on edtech.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This lack of interoperability results in a frustrating and fragmented experience, much like the challenges faced during our hypothetical movie night, and teachers and education leaders end up spending time on rostering rather than learning.

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Skyward EdTech Pearson Company 158

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

Leaders in the sector, including 2U, Coursera and Keypath, never made a profit on the activity, and Pearson and Wiley sold off their OPM offshoots in recent months when the going got rough. OPMs, I worried, would undermine academic integrity in digital education. It’s an OPM paradox — as companies lose money, colleges make it.

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Coursera Education Pearson Company 173

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Kids CoLab helps students target areas of need, build 21st-century skills with hands-on and digital learning. Nine New Jersey elementary middle school students are joining forces with Pearson designers and developers to help the company design features for digital learning solutions.

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Pearson STEM Digital Learning Groups 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

It’s a nearly $4 billion industry worldwide with leaders such as 2U, Academic Partnerships, Bisk, Noodle, Pearson and Wiley Education Services. Meanwhile, a growing number of traditional institutions are moving into the online-degree marketplace, and for-profit Online Program Management firms have sprung up to help them accomplish this.

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Online Learning Education Coursera Learning 180

Shake Up Learning

APRIL 7, 2020

As I learned many weeks ago from my interview with Jennifer Pearson , a teacher who had been teaching her students in China remotely for many weeks, this is NOT the time to throw a bunch of new tools at our teachers and students. Jennifer Pearson learned early on that you cannot replicate the school schedule every day at home.

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Pearson Learning EdTech Google 101

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

These companies, which help colleges set up online programs and often help finance them as well in exchange for a cut of revenues, have lately seen a barrage of bad news.

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Strategy Coursera MOOC Company 182

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

I think Pearson has seen it. It's not unlimited choice in the sense we don't have Pearson materials. Typically, they grow very well when they're in startup mode. Then they become part of this big behemoth, and all of a sudden they plateau and they're flattened out. Then they become more of a distraction.

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Chegg Pearson Company EdTech 134

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And that is a very conservative number, based only on time saved using the top six critical core web applications from Pearson, McGraw-Hill, PowerSchool, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Google Classroom. OneRoster is an open technology standard used by many publishers that lets us share specific class rosters with digital learning resources.

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BYOD Pearson Data Learning Analytics 166

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. To aid in that effort, the CEO of Top Hat has been forging alliances with smaller publishers, publishers whom Silagadze says haven’t turned their print content digital because of financial and logistical costs.

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Company Pearson Course Software 131

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

It has even tried partnering with publishers like Pearson to digitize their print materials, according to Silagadze. From bundling its clicker technology with course materials from other publishers, the company now offers a marketplace and authoring tools for people to build their own courses on the platform.

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Knewton Company Course OER 152

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

Although students’ reception to digital materials remains mixed , the print-to-digital transition has become an overriding concern and priority for many publishers. Pearson, one of the publishers featured on the platform, recently reported that its print U.S. The company has raised a total of $15 million in capital.

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Pearson Company eBook Libraries 127

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative. About 375,000 students in 32 states are enrolled in statewide online schools, many of which are operated as charter schools or run by Education Service Provider companies such as K12 Inc.

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Education Handbook Course Elementary 216

Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The goal of this blog has always been to provide teachers with digital learning resources, tips, and tricks, and help teachers find ways to integrate technology meaningfully in the classroom. Online Learning Tips for Teachers and Schools [interview with an American Teacher in China]. Grace is Greater Than Grades.

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Blended Learning Pearson Google Online Learning 101

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Los Angeles Community College District , the Federal District Court for the Central District of California ruled that Los Angeles Community College failed to provide a blind student with “ meaningful access to his course materials ” via MyMathLab, software developed by Pearson, in a timely manner.

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Social Media Accessibility CMS Facebook 124

TeacherCast

JULY 2, 2015

Jeff has Keynoted for the Pearson Authentic Learning Conference, EdTechNJ and most recently at Columbia Universities Teacher College. What is a digital learning experience? Are the principals of digital learning the same for all ages?

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Tools Pearson Classroom iPad 68

Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

The 4 Phases of Crisis-Driven Remote Learning. Many schools had already set the groundwork for digital learning and were able to adapt more quickly. We do know that we will need digital learning tools for communication, collaboration, and to engage our students in learning inside and outside of the classroom.

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Education Digital Citizenship Microsoft Training 101

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

This has led to higher education textbook publishers facing the brunt as that’s the only area where students and institutes can reduce their spends, by opting for digital textbooks instead. Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space.

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Trends eBook Education Industry 97

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

But it’s become increasingly unclear if online learning is living up to its promise for students, as concerns persist over quality, inequitable disparities in digital-learning participants and outcomes. Here’s his forecast for how the K-12 industry will continue to evolve and shape teaching and learning. 1:00 p.m.

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Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 116

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 20, 2016

The company has partnerships with international content owners including Getty Images, Bloomberg, BBC Worldwide Learning, and Associated Press Television News. Also last week, Knowledgemotion said it has entered a multi-year supply and services agreement with Pearson. Flocabulary Raises $1.5

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Pearson Company Video Digital Learning 45

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Ever since Pearson sold PowerSchool in June 2015, the two companies have embarked on very different paths. The once venerable publisher axed several high-profile (and profitable) businesses in the Financial Times and The Economist as part of efforts to transform itself into a digital learning business.

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Haiku Learning Pearson Company LMS 60

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Prior to CueThink, Sheela was Project Director at Pearson Education, focusing on technologically innovative assessment items based on Common Core State Standards. As Founder and CEO, Sheela has been instrumental in securing $4+M from National Science Foundation, NewSchools Venture Fund, MassVentures and angel investors.

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Instructional Materials Professional Learning Pearson Common Core 90

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

Tom Greaves, The Greaves Group www.projectred.org Project Red - large scale research project funded by Pearson and Intel; Collected data from over 1000 schools around the country and looked at 136 variables. It brings a library of over 18,000 purpose-built, digital learning objects to teachers, learners, and parents.

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Learning Pearson Study Survey 61

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In 2014, a student data privacy controversy sparked around the practices of a new digital learning company inBloom , which then kick-started a debate on student privacy and data storing and sharing that has not yet abated. The Pearson incident raises important questions about privacy versus marketing and service strategies.

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Student Data Privacy Data Pearson Social Media 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The letters went to 2U, Academic Partnerships, Pearson Learning, Wiley and Bisk. The letters requested answers by Feb. In response to a question about the letter, Paucek said 2U is “in the process of responding to the senators and we really like what we have to say.”

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Company Report Pearson Course 85

Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

What’s the current state of online learning? A new report from Babson, Pearson, the Online Learning Consortium et al, Grade Level ( pdf ), offers some intriguing observations about campus strategy and leadership. Overall, digital learning continues to grow, according to the report.

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Online Learning Report OER Pearson 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

She voiced her concerns in a comment to a Wall Street Journal article about Jill Watson: “Having that exposure in such a role has been quite influential in my understanding of the infrastructure required for a course, what works and what doesn't, and how important creating personal relationships with students affects their desire to learn.

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Student Engagement LMS Robotics EdTech 60

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2016

Cisco, Dell, ENA, Filewave, Fortinet, Google, Google Fiber, iBoss Security, iDentityAutomation, itslearning, JAMF Software, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, Lightspeed Systems, McGraw Hill, Microsoft, Nutanix, Pearson, Presidio, Promethean, Qualcomm, ReverTech, Safari Montage, Samsung, SchoolDude, SchoolMessenger and Sunesys.

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SchoolDude Lenovo Pearson How To 40