Adaptive Learning Books OER Pearson 
Edsurge
JANUARY 22, 2020
Smart Sparrow , which provides course-authoring tools for faculty and instructional designers to build adaptive courseware, has found a new home in a much bigger nest. As part of the deal, most of its staff will join Pearson. He and a small team will remain with Smart Sparrow, which is not technically being acquired by Pearson.
Edsurge
JULY 15, 2019
Today, Pearson announced it will adopt a “digital first” approach to updating its higher ed course materials, meaning that any revisions or changes to textbook content will happen first in the digital version. Today, college students on average spend more than $1,200 on books and materials, according to The College Board.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Earlier this year Ferreira stepped aside as CEO, replaced by Brian Kibby , a veteran of major textbook companies including Pearson and McGraw-Hill. And even before the management change, the company had quietly started building a huge library of courses bolted to its adaptive engine. OER will commoditize education content.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
In his 2017 book Platform Capitalism , Nick Srnicek posits that platforms are poised to become the fundamental business model of our digital world – key to the new economy, clearly, but also key to political and social systems (and what these will become under the control of these powerful technology companies).
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. They haven’t.).
Hack Education
MAY 20, 2016
“ Hail and Farewell to The Google Books Case ” by James Grimmelmann. “ Pearson gets emergency test scoring contract from Tennessee ,” Chalkbeat reports. “ Pearson gets emergency test scoring contract from Tennessee ,” Chalkbeat reports. Pearson hearts coding bootcamps.
Hack Education
APRIL 28, 2017
The NAACP endorses OER. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” a month.). .” ” Oh.
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