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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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JULY 30, 2021

Braced for the next wave of edtech? The most recent player to step into the edtech spotlight is India’s Byju’s. Byju’s growth demonstrates how the edtech market is truly becoming borderless,” says Isabelle Hau, a longtime global impact education funder who is working on a book on early childhood learning. “We It will be big.

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MAY 2, 2018

Emily Lai, Director of Formative Assessment and Feedback at Pearson But new, externally audited, efficacy research from Pearson about one of the company’s third-party apps shows a significant correlation between increased retesting and lower overall course performance.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out opportunities for schools to apply for personalized learning funding! MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about adaptive learning tools teachers are using in their classrooms! MORE FROM EDTECH: See how adaptive learning is driving change in K–12 education! by Eli Zimmerman.

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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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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

MORE FROM EDTECH: Read this Q&A with a VR expert on how to implement AR/VR in the classroom! Research shows VR is not just a gimmick, but instead it can change the way students’ brains function in the classroom, Jaime Donally, founder of ARVRinEDU and a mixed reality professional development consultant, tells EdTech.

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JUNE 23, 2020

It was early in offering programs that highlighted edtech,” says Frank Catalano, an independent industry strategist who previously served on SIIA’s education board. “It It was essentially the go-to association for the edtech industry.” edtech companies, marking the highest tally of the decade. billion in U.S.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In the realm of education technology, a similar disarray unfolds without a standardized system for edtech interoperability. Andrea Press Classroom Assessment Technical Support Supervisor Pearson Interoperability in education allows different software applications to communicate and work together effectively.

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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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MAY 12, 2017

Now one of its most high-profile content partners and investors, Pearson , is pulling back. Pearson will no longer use Knewton’s adaptive learning engine for some of its digital offerings. The retrenchment delivers a setback to Knewton, for whom Pearson was the first—and most visible—partner.

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JUNE 29, 2017

In the past, experts have made big projections for the global edtech market, with some groups estimating as much as $252 billion pouring into the market by 2020. Because of limited edtech providers in Mexico, Najera relies on products from the United States and Spain. You know education is not a big business in Mexico.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

edtech startups in 2017. And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration).

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

based edtech startups in 2017 saw a resurgence of investment capital. edtech investments in 2011. edtech companies. edtech startups hit almost $1.7 For edtech startups, seed money hasn’t disappeared; it’s just harder to get. Is education technology investing back on track? The answers depend on who you ask.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how FERPA has changed over the years and what updates mean for K–12 schools. In-house storage requires both situational awareness and strong encryption , Clyde tells EdTech. MORE FROM EDTECH: See how schools can approach digital citizenship through a combination of curriculum and education technology.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 29, 2020

Pearson Online Academy will celebrate graduation this year the same way it always does: virtually. The big difference this year is that Pearson Online won’t be alone. MORE ON EDTECH: Learn about the tech that can help English language learners graduate. Names will be called, just as in a traditional graduation.”.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 27, 2020

Pearson Online Academy will celebrate graduation this year the same way it always does: virtually. The big difference this year is that Pearson Online won’t be alone. MORE ON EDTECH: Learn about the tech that can help English language learners graduate. Names will be called, just as in a traditional graduation.”.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

We’re pleased to share this year’s Edtech Outlook, a data-rich dive into the state of education technology with case studies into emerging-frontier innovations. Reach Capital Edtech Outlook 2017 from Jennifer Carolan. As a result, higher-ed institutions have been early adopters of AI-assisted tools. Source: Reach Capital 4.

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JANUARY 26, 2022

edtech: Information technology for K-12 public schools in America is a $760 billion sector, affecting over 50 million students. For many schools across the country, which require edtech to function, third-party vendors would be better equipped to handle cybersecurity, argues Jim Siegl, senior technologist at the Future of Privacy Forum.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

He is the founder of Injini , an edtech accelerator based in South Africa, that launched this year to support education startups from across the continent. Pearson, through its Affordable Learning Fund , has also invested in several Africa-based education companies. The magnitude of the problem may be disheartening. Yet the U.S.

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JUNE 30, 2020

Over the years, Byju’s has acquired several assets to shore up its offerings, including Edurite and TutorVista, from Pearson in 2017. edtech company is Udemy, an online course marketplace that reached a $2 billion valuation after raising $50 million from Japanese publisher Benesse in February. The highest-valued private U.S.

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JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). Now “Sand Hill is waiting to see the outcome of some of their previous edtech investments,” says Shauntel Poulson, a general partner at Reach Capital.

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MAY 12, 2020

In its unaudited Q1 update, Pearson reported a 5 percent revenue dip in Q1 2020, driven in part by a continuing decline in its U.S. In states where Pearson administers tests, and which have cancelled standardized testing, the company has already seen an impact on its bottom line. higher education courseware business.

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JULY 11, 2017

Kibby has spent much of his career working for major textbook publishers—having served as president of McGraw-Hill’s Higher Education Group and a senior vice president at Pearson Education before that. Earlier this year Knewton’s biggest partner, Pearson, pulled back and decided to rely far less on the company’s technology.

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JULY 9, 2021

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. One example cited was a Pearson A/B test that earned negative media coverage a few years ago. Most people would be fine if Pearson offered either option to all users?software software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If

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AUGUST 13, 2019

billion, 2019 offers some edtech investors hope that their bets could pay off. Fuller, who has covered the edtech industry for over a decade, recently shared her take on current trends on edtech mergers and acquisitions. In recent years we’ve seen private equity players buy up a lot of edtech companies.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 2, 2020

Pearson Online Academy will celebrate graduation this year the same way it always does: virtually. The big difference this year is that Pearson Online won’t be alone. MORE ON EDTECH: Learn about the tech that can help English language learners graduate. Names will be called, just as in a traditional graduation.”.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 1, 2020

Pearson Online Academy will celebrate graduation this year the same way it always does: virtually. The big difference this year is that Pearson Online won’t be alone. MORE ON EDTECH: Learn about the tech that can help English language learners graduate. Names will be called, just as in a traditional graduation.”.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Case in point: He began receiving messages from a private-equity firm interested in his education data management platform, DataCation, after publishing an article in 2014 about how his product found traction in a market where IBM and Pearson had struggled, and sold to over 5,000 schools.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Universities should be buying and selling courseware from each other,” says Feldstein, a longtime edtech consultant who also runs the popular blog eLiterate. But last year Pearson acquired the assets of Smart Sparrow , leading ASU to look for an alternative platform to deliver its offerings, which had also been growing in use.

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MARCH 5, 2024

“As we enter the AI age of technology, we see tremendous opportunity to leverage HMH’s unparalleled curriculum and customer relationships to deliver edtech’s next chapter to connect students and teachers in thinking, writing, and communication. Pearson (FTSE: PSON.L)

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APRIL 24, 2019

Pearson spokesman Scott Overland pushed back against the idea that publisher software is outdated. With Derivita’s math homework and assessment software, Daley hopes that students will no longer have to pay for textbook-and-software bundles typically offered by the big educational publishers.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We have a discussion at Pearson about this shift in society from a digital desert to a digital ocean,” said John Behrens, vice president of advanced computing and data science at Pearson. For all the talk about data and learning, Essa offered this blunt assessment: “Pretty much all edtech sucks. So what’s missing?

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

The platform launched in June with reviews of 16 products, including tools made by OpenStax, Wiley, Lumen Learning, Pearson and Labster. She hopes that the transparent review process can influence edtech companies to prioritize strong outcomes for all students.

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APRIL 1, 2019

A survey from LearnTrials, another edtech company, came to similar conclusions. For school leaders, Bundle offers “a real opportunity to stretch dollars to solve more problems,” Glimpse K12’s co-founder and CEO Adam Pearson said. According to Pearson, Bundle will cost districts about $3,000 a year, depending on the number of licenses.

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MAY 2, 2017

To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. Once upon a time Pearson operated under different brands that made the totality of what Pearson did less obvious.

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DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pearson Education did something it’s never done before. This week the London-based publishing and assessment giant released a set of learning design principles that anyone can use to develop edtech products. Pearson has been building this collection of learning design principles over the past three years, Porcaro says.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Early evidence suggests that many edtech companies are following the same path. Despite the money and time spent conducting efficacy studies on their products, surveys reveal that research often plays a minor role in edtech consumer purchasing decisions. This work could resemble something like food labels for edtech products.

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