Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

The structure of demand created the “Big Three”—McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson. Others went deep, with curriculum, intervention and assessment stacks. If you bucket all instructional materials—core plus a broad view of “supplemental”—you have an estimated $6 billion instructional materials market.

Industry 80

Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 80

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

Earlier this week I read an op-ed – sponsored by Pearson – titled “If OER is the answer, what is the question?” If I purchase the rights to an out-of-print textbook from Pearson and relicense it CC BY, is it now more or less effective than it was the day before? This is a ridiculous question. Faculty do.

OER 60

OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

” Pearson cut 4000 jobs – 10% of its staff. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. ISTE’s CEO left “ unexpectedly.” K12 Inc got a new CEO.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40