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Pearson Signals Major Shift From Print by Making All Textbook Updates ‘Digital First’

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And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials. A report by investment bank Macquarie estimated that print titles made up 45 percent of U.S. The company reported that 55 percent of its $1.3

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It “Facebook Giving Virtual-Reality Kits to Every Arkansas High School,” Education Week reported in August. “‘Schoolifying’ Minecraft Without Ruining It,” NPR reported in June.

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

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Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. Secondary, they will enable what most people in the education world want to see happen.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” In other Department of Education bureaucratic nightmares, “Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The NAACP endorses OER. Testing, Testing… “Nation’s Report Card Finds Mixed Grades For U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Nikki Haley of South Carolina has signed into law a measure that requires the state’s public colleges and universities to publish reports of conduct violations involving alcohol, drugs, sexual assault, and hazing at fraternities and sororities.” “ Columbia Drops SAT Subject Tests Requirement,” Inside Higher Ed reports.