Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. PIRG obtained 52 contracts between 31 colleges and major publishers, including Cengage, McGraw-Hill and Pearson.

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Pearson Accessibility Course Report 148

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.

Pearson 103

Pearson Adaptive Learning Knewton OER 103

EdNews Daily

MARCH 16, 2019

Khan Academy is a nonprofit that believes online education should be excellent, accessible, and free to use for anyone in the world. 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. Khan Academy.

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Khan Academy Company IXL Learning Pearson 221

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2019

Pearson probably still won’t buy your startup. Today, the publisher announced the launch of Pearson Ventures, a $50 million fund earmarked for education technology startups raising Series A and B rounds. The fund is framed as an effort to “future proof the company,” says Owen Henkel, managing director of Pearson Ventures.

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Pearson Company EdTech Industry 93

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

For Pearson, the world’s largest education company, some of its recent tumult in past years have been self-imposed, even deliberate, under the helm of John Fallon. In 2016 the company reported a $3.3 EdSurge: When you took over as CEO in 2013, there was much made about transforming Pearson’s digital transformation.

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Pearson Education Outcomes Company 101

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Last May, major textbook publisher Pearson indicated it was mulling a sale of the U.S. In its latest earnings update, the company confirmed that it is indeed moving ahead with such plans. If concluded, the sale would mark yet another major asset that Pearson has shed since John Fallon took over as CEO in 2013.

Pearson 107

Pearson Chegg Company Instructional Materials 107

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Andrea Press Classroom Assessment Technical Support Supervisor Pearson Interoperability in education allows different software applications to communicate and work together effectively. We are spending too much time troubleshooting data connection problems, which means the information that teachers and students access is not in real time.

Skyward 117

Skyward EdTech Pearson Company 117

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Companies building AI tools for education should engage with education institutions and stakeholders to explain and demystify the opportunities and risks of new AI technologies. I commend our member companies who embraced this initiative to collaborate and for their commitment to support our children and teachers.”

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Pearson Education Industry Guidelines 132

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Platinum Equity announced an agreement this week to buy the company from Apollo Global Management, in a deal valued at about $4.5 McGraw Hill CEO Simon Allen will continue to lead the business, according to a statement released by the company. billion, including debt, reports the Wall Street Journal.

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Pearson Company Industry Report 193

edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2019

edWeb.net , an award-winning professional learning network, today joined forces with Pearson on its professional learning community, Assessment for Learning. ” Lisa Schmucki, the founder and CEO of edWeb.net, commented, “We’re delighted that Pearson will be sponsoring and hosting a community on assessment.

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Pearson Assessment Learning Professional Learning 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pearson Education did something it’s never done before. Yet many company claims that their tools are grounded in research are murky at best. David Porcaro, director of Learning Design at Pearson, says the decision to collect and share these learning design principles “is like putting the ingredients list on food labels.

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Pearson Industry EdTech Learning 60

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2022

One of the largest of those companies will try to continue the transition as a private company, hoping that the extra capital and institutional knowledge will help. Executives of the company say the deal positions them for coming expansions. In the end, the company reported that about 57 percent of shares were sold to Veritas.

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Pearson Company Adaptive Learning Report 156

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 That’s why our c.20,000

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Coursera Pearson Digital Badges Industry 57

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. One example cited was a Pearson A/B test that earned negative media coverage a few years ago. Most people would be fine if Pearson offered either option to all users?software software with or without encouraging messages, she writes. “If

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Pearson Learning Software Company 194

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions provider for K-12 education, announced it is partnering with Analytic Measures Inc. AMI) , an educational technology company, to provide a fully automated assessment tool that uses artificial intelligence and voice technology to measure K-5 students’ reading abilities.

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Company Tools Assessment Pearson 70

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Nearly 200 colleges face federal civil rights investigations opened in 2019 about whether they are accessible and communicate effectively to people with disabilities. Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards.

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Social Media Accessibility CMS Facebook 112

Marketplace K-12

MAY 10, 2016

In Great Britain, government officials and their testing contractor, Pearson, are investigating how the answers for a spelling and grammar assessment ended up on a site where they didn’t belong. The site is for scorers only, and does not allow public access. Security Under Scrutiny. “We

Pearson 40

Pearson Social Media Common Core Company 40

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Recent dealmaking news includes acquisitions by Apple and Excelligence Learning, and partnership between Pearson and Knewton. acquired the San Francisco-based startup that helps K-12 educators “use data to analyze the past, understand the present, and anticipate the future,” according to the company’s Twitter page.

Knewton 40

Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 40

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Pearson, with a market cap of $8.5 The new company will retain the McGraw Hill name, but will be led by Michael Hansen, currently the CEO of Cengage. Like other established textbook publishers, both companies have reoriented their businesses around digital offerings. billion, would still be ahead of the pack. billion in 2013.

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Pearson Company Adaptive Learning Report 167

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

The privately held company, which has raised $2.7 The privately held company, which has raised $2.7 alone; that means the company has at least another half billion dollars at the ready. Few companies have tackled the full range of learners since the days when Pearson was touted as the world’s largest learning company.

EdTech 215

EdTech Khan Academy Company Libraries 215

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As early excitement about Zoom gave way to questions and concerns about privacy, security and unequal access, other companies seized the opportunity to elbow their way into the new competition for digital communication tools appropriate for preschoolers and college students alike. But Zoom has held on. It’s high energy.”

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Company Education Kaplan Learning 189

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Forecasters expect 5G access to increase more dramatically through 2019 , with the number of 5G devices becoming more ubiquitous in 2020. Video has become a major educational tool for the next generation of students, 59 percent of whom report YouTube as their preferred educational method, Pearson reports. and Palo Alto, Calif.,

EdTech 338

EdTech Pearson Report Data 338

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

Now something similar may be happening with textbooks, as publishing giants start to broker campuswide deals with colleges that give students unlimited access to a publisher’s digital textbooks at cut-rate prices. If they felt that Cengage is not as strong and Pearson is better, they kept with the Pearson.”

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 118

The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

About four years ago, Pearson purchased the company that supported North Carolina’s Student data system called NC WISE. Pearson then informed the state that it was shutting down support for NC WISE. Through “Home Base,” educators theoretically can access three programs and all the data they could possibly want.

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Pearson Data Software System 65

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Mercier, who’s starting his second year studying business management at City, University of London’s Cass Business School in a couple of weeks, found three of them on a new service called Perlego , a UK-based company which wants to be the Netflix of academic content. One partner, Pearson, took a pre-tax loss of approximately $3.2

Pearson 112

Pearson Case Study Company Tablets 112

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

McGraw-Hill Education Chief Financial Officer, Mike Evans, has resigned, according to a company statement Tuesday. Evans’ last day as CFO was on June 30, 2019, and his last day with the company will be July 5, 2019. He also worked at Pearson, overseeing the publisher’s K-12 businesses in literacy, math and student information systems.

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Pearson Education Company Analysis 93

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. Are you a new teacher to 51Talk?

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MOOC Education Industry Company 216

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

Pearson 97

Pearson Kaplan Company Education 97

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Four years ago, when Hardeep Gulati took over as CEO of PowerSchool, the company numbered around 400 employees. The private equity firm purchased PowerSchool from Pearson for $350 million in 2015, and has since spent hundreds of millions more on acquisitions.

Schoology 158

Schoology Data Haiku Learning Pearson 158

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. And I want to do it worldwide.”

Accessibility 62

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

Publicly-traded companies like Wiley generally share the price of their acquisitions, unless the financial impact is considered immaterial to the buyer’s bottom line. The New York City-based company has raised more than $180 million in investment capital. In its latest fiscal year earnings summary (for Nov. 1, 2018 to Jan.

Knewton 143

Knewton OER Industry Adaptive Learning 143

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

Textbook companies defend their new model, arguing that digital titles help students learn better than past methods and are sold for far less than traditional textbooks. For Wright, the student at ASU, one solution has been to take advantage of a two-week trial period offered by many textbook companies.

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Pearson Course Social Media Company 163

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

How the Company Aims to Catch Tutoring Requests That Go Too Far. Here’s a look at how the education company is responding. But these massive open online courses still continue to shape the way people around the world learn and access education. What’s Next for Pearson? Cheating on Chegg? Without a University Involved.).

MOOC 121

MOOC Coursera Chegg Pearson 121

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The video’s simplicity and accessibility is the point for ReadyRosie, which offers parents ways to turn a chore like putting away groceries into vocabulary practice. The Denton, Texas-based company is also growing up itself. Roden worked as an elementary school teacher and in sales for Pearson before founding ReadyRosie in 2012.

Strategy 126

Strategy Video Company Smartphone 126

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital.

Knewton 134

Knewton Company Pearson OER 134

Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. billion in U.S.

Industry 162

Industry Conference EdTech Student Data Privacy 162

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. In Pearson’s preliminary 2018 results released in February, the publisher said it expects flat revenue or even a 5 percent decline for its U.S. It’s a coexistence.

Chegg 162

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 162