eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2023

HOBOKEN – Pearson , the world’s leading learning company, announced today that Connections Academy , its K-12 online school program will expand its slate of college and career readiness initiatives for middle and high school students. Credly is a Pearson business. That’s why our c.20,000

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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 online global school’s students and families plan to gather on June 16 via Adobe Connect in a ceremony that will include Camtasia -edited video segments, PowerPoint presentations, and student speeches recorded on smartphones.

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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 online global school’s students and families plan to gather on June 16 via Adobe Connect in a ceremony that will include Camtasia -edited video segments, PowerPoint presentations, and student speeches recorded on smartphones.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2021

Our two remarkable DLAC coordinators, Neda Anasseri and Penny Pearson, model expert mentoring and coaching with the use of digital tools such as Flipgrid and Padlet. Each team is also assigned a coach for brainstorming, guidance, and networking. California’s adult education non-credit programs have a gem in OTAN and its DLAC program.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

Pearson today announced that it is responding to rocky conditions and poor performance in international markets by laying off 4,000 workers and putting a greater focus on adaptive courseware and classroom products, as well as blended and online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Illinois’ effort to bring online learning to juvenile justice facility classrooms is rare nationwide. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS. Once they start, they really want to keep going.”. Sign up for our newsletter.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2021

Online learning is here to stay. In a 2020 Pearson survey , 88 percent of global respondents said they think online learning will be part of children’s educational experiences and the university experience moving forward.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 22, 2017

Pearson is preparing to sell off parts of TutorVista, while Gauge Capital has invested in eDynamic Learning, which publishes online career and elective courses for middle and high school.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 3, 2015

Minnesota will receive $1 million in fees from Pearson and up to $4.7 million in additional services and support, as part of a settlement.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 3, 2015

Minnesota will receive $1 million in fees from Pearson and up to $4.7 million in additional services and support, as part of a settlement.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 18, 2015

PowerSchool, a student information system that Pearson says is the most widely used student information system in the United States, will leave the company's fold.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2023

Finalists, selected by expert reviewers, represent the most innovative and impactful products from education technology developers, online learning services and related learning-focused technologies. on behalf of CDWG Best Science Instructional Solution for Grades PK–8 STEMscopes Science, Accelerate Learning Inc.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 21, 2015

Sandbox Partners is buying the Family Education Network, a Pearson "edu-tainment" platform, for an undisclosed amount.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Website traffic to the homepage for IXL, a popular tool that lets students practice skills across five subjects through online quizzes, spiked in March.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In a recent blog post , Feldstein notes that OLI launched a whole new market segment for textbooks, inspiring commercial publishers, including Pearson, Cengage and Wiley, to build their own courseware products that are now growing in adoption. Since the pandemic, Carnegie Mellon has seen an uptick in people using OLI courseware.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 16, 2019

Connections Academy is a different online school with a similar set up as K12 and would be worth looking into as well. Pearson Online. Many in our EdNews Daily community have worked as test administrators or scorers for Pearson in the past, but they have hundreds of other job possibilities as well. Online Businesses.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 15, 2020

The post Grace is Greater Than Grades appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In the midst of the coronavirus chaos, the anxiety, the fears, and the extra time at home, I would like to come back to an idea that Jennifer Pearson shared on a special BONUS episode of the Shake Up Learning Show –grace. © Shake Up Learning 2020.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 31, 2015

In one online learning station, students listen to books/stories with an audio recording. Here are some great online resources for the online learning stations. Storyline Online is a fantastic site sponsored by the SAG Foundation. This strategy uses technology in two stations. Read & Listen Resources.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In this free download, you will get two PDF cheat sheets: (1) The Google Classroom Cheat Sheet for Teachers, a 40-page guide to help teachers make the most of this robust online learning tool. (2) Back to School with G Suite (6 Online Activities). This interview defined my views on remote learning! Coronavirus Closures?

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2023

In the past 15-20 years, school instruction has grown significantly from the days of students using textbooks and one or two computers in the classroom; now to major innovations in online learning tools available to teachers and students – some free and some with very expensive licensing agreements.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

What’s Next for Pearson? The digital era has rocked the once-steady foundation for education kingmakers like Pearson. But after cutting assets ranging from the company’s stake in The Economist to PowerSchool, a student information system, Pearson finally reported a profit again in 2017. Not Buying Your Education Startup.).

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

Last week, the company announced it is working with an existing client, Simmons University, to create a fully online undergraduate program. 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. higher education courseware business.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. She wants to see online learning taken out of the hands of for-profits altogether. At Stride Inc.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

Byju’s claims its online learning app, which offers instructional videos, live classes and practice questions, is now used by more than 57 million students. Over the years, Byju’s has acquired several assets to shore up its offerings, including Edurite and TutorVista, from Pearson in 2017.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 5, 2018

Building positive team chemistry among online teachers is just as important as making one-on-one relationships outside of the classroom. These powerful connections reinforce each other, help students learn better, and make the teaching experience more enjoyable. Green Team Educators.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

labs, carts, bring-your-own-device policies), but the combination of low-cost devices, an explosion of online learning content and ubiquitous connectivity has fueled the rapid shift toward 1:1. (There are 50 million students in US public schools). Schools provide these devices in a variety of ways (e.g. Source: Reach Capital 3.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

51Talk (or “China Online Education Group”), China’s leading online education platform and the first from China listed on the NYSE (NYSE: COE), was invited to attend the summit alongside education industry leaders such as Pearson, Amazon, and YouTube.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 7, 2020

As I learned many weeks ago from my interview with Jennifer Pearson , a teacher who had been teaching her students in China remotely for many weeks, this is NOT the time to throw a bunch of new tools at our teachers and students. Jennifer Pearson learned early on that you cannot replicate the school schedule every day at home.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 9, 2015

Questar Assessment Inc., a Minnesota-based company, has won a $44 million contract to handle grade 3-8 testing in New York state.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

He says the tools from Spain have quality content for Spanish speakers, and for English tools, tech providers such as Pearson and Mcgraw Hill have sufficed in the past, but he is looking for more STEM learning tools now. “I When Chen started her work back in 2012, she says people were obsessed with online learning models like Coursera.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 20, 2020

Online Learning Tips for School Closures : Best Practices for Teachers & Schools. Join me for this free webinar with Jennifer Pearson, an American teacher who evacuated from China because of the coronavirus. The 4 C’s: The Superfoods of Learning – SULS002. Grace is Greater Than Grades.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Shrier has led graduate business courses at institutions including Oxford, MIT and Imperial College; Porter was a vice president at Pearson and edX, the nonprofit online course platform developer. Esme wants to transform the effectiveness of online learning, increasing both student engagement and the quality of course content.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

But for some online education companies, the upheaval represents a chance to profit. Connections Academy, the virtual school run by Pearson, saw “strong increases in application volumes” in March. Last month, Hechinger reported that website traffic was surging for some ed tech companies. And K12 Inc.,

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Pearson is Not a Platform. I’m not sure if we can still call Pearson “the world’s largest education company.” That restructuring has involved shedding some of the products and subsidiaries unrelated to education, Pearson executives have said. Pearson does not have a platform.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

She’s the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Online Learning Research , which publishes peer-reviewed studies about K-12 online education. and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative. Just a few years old, it’s still a “fledgling journal,” Archambault says.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Chou got his start in K-12 education, working as a classroom teacher and then school administrator before working in education software development and ultimately rising through the ranks at Pearson. At Trilogy, Chou sees data being used to inform the curriculum and student support as he never saw in the K-12 world.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 20, 2016

Brainly Acquires OpenStudy: The Krakow, Poland-based social learning community for students has acquired OpenStudy , a peer-to-peer study help platform. The company has partnerships with international content owners including Getty Images, Bloomberg, BBC Worldwide Learning, and Associated Press Television News. Flocabulary Raises $1.5

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