Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

If you look for a definition of “platform” online, you’re likely to get something along the lines of Wikipedia’s – fairly straightforward, although quite technical: A computing platform is the environment in which a piece of software is executed. Pearson is Not a Platform. Pearson does not have a platform.

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

billion it agreed to pay Apple/Pearson for iPads, but what do I know). Reason: ‘Using Appliances’ ” Here’s the Chalkbeat headline : “New software aims to make teachers' jobs ‘much easier’ in Indianapolis Public Schools.” Learn-to-code startup Piper has raised $2.1 “Can U.S.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Officials from 11 states are suing the Obama Administration over the guidance it recently issued regarding transgender bathroom policies and civil rights law. ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). The Common Core aligned reading software maker had raised $1.8 Education Politics. More via The New York Times.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

.” And again, let’s recall Franklin’s definition of technologies includes not just hardware or software, but ideas, practices, models, and systems. I’m concerned because students are compelled to use software in educational settings. You can’t opt out of the learning management system.

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