Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2020
Last week, Pearson announced it paid $25 million to acquire Smart Sparrow’s technology, in a move that the publisher says will bolster the digital infrastructure that will soon support all its future higher-education offerings. As part of the deal, most of its staff will join Pearson. million in venture capital.
Iterating Toward Openness
OCTOBER 14, 2015
I’ve written about Pearson’s efficacy work in the past, and Ray Henderson’s twitter post this morning has prompted me to ponder and write a bit more. Just-in: @Pearson has just pubd white paper on their #Revel platform, as CEO @johnfallon committed. 5): What Pearson Means by Efficacy and Effectiveness.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. Pearson is Not a Platform. I’m not sure if we can still call Pearson “the world’s largest education company.” Pearson does not have a platform. But Pearson is not a platform.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
Our Twitter hashtag is #stemx13, and we have some resources for publicizing at [link]. MP3 and MP4 versions will be available as well as the full Blackboard Collaborate recordings, although they take some days to process. Spreading the word : this a free event, so be sure to tell others! See you online!
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
But he’s still welcome on college campuses and Twitter. ” “ Pearson , WTF? The business of OER. ” “White nationalist Richard Spencer banned from 26 European nations ,” The LA Times says. What a time to be alive. From the EU’s JRC : “ Blockchain in Education.”
Hack Education
AUGUST 31, 2018
His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. There’s a lot to think about here, as Natasha Singer rightly pointed out on Twitter , as this might related to Big Ed-Tech. ” Education Week on a Pearson poll : “Generation Z Prefers Learning From YouTube, Not Books.” Because “open.”).
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
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.” Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. But altruism is not the same as justice.
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