Marketplace K-12
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Pearson is selling its line of business focused on U.S. textbooks and instructional materials to Nexus Capital Management for $250 million. The post Pearson Sells Its K-12 Instructional Materials Business to Investment Firm appeared first on Market Brief.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 26, 2018
Last May, major textbook publisher Pearson indicated it was mulling a sale of the U.S. portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. If concluded, the sale would mark yet another major asset that Pearson has shed since John Fallon took over as CEO in 2013.
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Neo LMS
SEPTEMBER 5, 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. Data from the same Pearson survey says that 50% of high school students use learning apps, and this percentage grows in the case of students in elementary school. Mobile students.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 4, 2018
So far 30 such content creators have been green-lighted, ranging from high-school teachers and college professors, to brand-name publishers including Kaplan, Penguin Random House, Oxford University Press and Pearson, which is selling a handful of English vocabulary materials. But a large teacher following is no guarantee of success.
Edsurge
APRIL 5, 2019
The structure of demand created the “Big Three”—McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson. If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market. I exclude technology from this analysis). billion or so.
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 8, 2017
Here’s a VP from Pearson: Tim Peyton, vice president of strategic partnerships at Pearson, said it was no secret that publishers like Pearson had made textbooks too expensive and had seen sales drop as a result. .” What problem does the inclusive access model purport to solve?
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. She has been a member of various consortiums such as Web Access Initiative (WAI), National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) and Open eBook Forum.
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