Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

While in Big Soda the main players are Coke and Pepsi, their equivalent in the publishing industry are Pearson and Cengage (which has announced that plans to merge with McGraw-Hill). A 2015 regulation by the U.S. “If they felt that Cengage is not as strong and Pearson is better, they kept with the Pearson.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

OpenSecrets.org on how the student loan industry and higher ed institutions spend their lobbying dollars : “The politics behind your college and how you pay for it.” ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” million in revenue in 2015, and its executive compensation was $2.8

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

It planned to do so back in 2015.) Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics. (I’m working on a response to the Data & Society report on inBloom, but I’ve had the flu and I’ve been busy talking about how surveillance-driven “personalized learning” undermines democracy. So there you go.). An education IPO!

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

Elsevier has acquired bepress. As The Scholarly Kitchen’s Roger Schonfeld writes, “Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape. ” Via School Transportation News : “How Predictive Analytics Can Help the School Bus Industry.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Communications Experts Criticize Elsevier - Florida Pilot.” Via Techcrunch : “ VetTechTrek is creating an e-learning platform to help veterans build careers in the tech industry.” ” “Why Is a High School in One of America’s Richest Counties Still Failing? .

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

“Online Education Pioneer Boots Up a Jobs Program for the Tech Industry,” the MIT Technology Review reports. Heather Hiles , formerly the CEO of portfolio company Pathbrite (which was sold to Cengage Learning in 2015) will be the new “ deputy director of postsecondary success ” at the Gates Foundation.

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