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Can the ‘Netflix For Textbooks’ Model Actually Improve Access?

Edsurge

The latest player to jump in is Pearson, which released Pearson Plus over the summer as a “pay-as-you-go” alternative to traditional textbooks. Subscribers to Pearson Plus pay $9.99 higher education product. per month for one access to one digital textbook or $14.99 We need data to be able to do that.”

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

Few corporate brand names in education are as recognizable, and as polarizing, as Pearson, the giant education provider whose reach extends to virtual schools, testing, language training and an array of other areas. Those resources are increasingly delivered in digital form.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. the nation’s biggest for-profit operator of charters, enrollment grew by 45 percent, to almost 157,000, and revenues in its general education division rose 37 percent. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. At Stride Inc.,

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Walmart Chooses Three Colleges Where Its Employees Can Study For $1 a Day

Edsurge

The move was the latest salvo in what is becoming an arms race by large retail chains to offer education benefits. Sean Gallagher, founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, sees it as part of a “competition for talent” at a time of low unemployment.

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What Separates a Good Blended Learning Program From a Bad One?

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The key to this, according to the newly-published e-book, “ Choice, Ownership, and Voice through Authentic Learning ,” is to create learning environments and activities that support COVA, which stands for choice, ownership, voice and authentic learning.

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Do School Districts Need Their Own Data Centers Anymore?

Educational Technology Guy

E-rate no longer pays for servers either. They are moving to Google Apps and Chromebooks (and moving all files to Drive) and are moving to have Pearson host PowerSchool instead of hosting themselves. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy. Google Apps, Evernote, Edmodo, and more are all web based.

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Why We Don't Need a 'Netflix for Education'

Edsurge

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. But despite the compelling nature of this "Netflix of Education" vision, it can encourage a misleading view of personalized learning.