Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Three of the country’s largest publishers, Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning, are suing Follett Corporation, a major textbook distributor, on charges of selling counterfeit textbooks in its stores. Other textbook distributors, including Chegg, Inc.

Pearson 71

Pearson Chegg Company Industry 71

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Goldman, vice president of textbooks and e-books at Chegg, a student services provider that notably sold its print textbook inventory to Ingram in 2015, adoption of digital materials among students has been slower than he predicted. For Pearson, non-digital revenues still dominate at 38 percent, down from 41 percent the year prior.

Chegg 157

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 157

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

Frontline Education, controlled by Insight Venture Partners, has snapped up another 10—most recently, professional-learning provider School Improvement Network. These new firms coming in big checks are going to learn that lesson,” Palmer says. PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015.

EdTech 91

EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 91

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 25, 2019

Students have welcomed this change as they now have a multitude of choice in the digital learning space. This led higher education textbook publishers to shift towards digital publishing , albeit reluctantly as they learned that digital is the only way forward. Switch to Digital Publishing: There’s no escaping the digital revolution.

Trends 97

Trends eBook Education Industry 97

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

Cambium Learning Group. Cambium Learning Group ( ABCD , maker of Learning A-Z, Voyager Sopris and other products) takes silver, its stock worth 54 percent more than at the start of the wager. Our edtech basket is right in line with this number: Two stocks out of 11 (2U and Cambium Learning) were able to beat the S&P.

EdTech 60

EdTech Pearson Chegg Company 60

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. Apart from rental services, these publishers can earn revenue through banner ads, and also by offering additional learning resources. K-12 content libraries usually contain thousands of learning resources like videos, short knowledge nuggets etc.

Technology 80

Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

It’s been about five years since Cengage Learning filed for bankruptcy , stumbling under the weight of shrinking print sales, a rough transition to digital and too much debt. Faculty have asked us over the years whether we care about the cost of learning materials. How are you characterizing a ‘vastly superior’ proposition?

Chegg 94

Chegg Pearson Company EdTech 94

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. Colleges were spending millions networking classrooms and residence halls, and I wondered about the absence of technology in the “front office” for teaching and learning. Here are some lessons I learned about what makes the higher education market unique.

Blackboard 96

Blackboard Company Pearson LMS 96

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

He envisioned a game-based educational platform used by teachers and students to learn about science and the environment. On the education side, the company enlisted Kelly McGrath, former head of K-12 science curriculum development at Pearson, who’d become Planet3’s chief operating officer. Both efforts have largely gone dark.

Education 77

Education Company Chegg Pearson 77

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

" It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. ” Edsurge profiles Lexia Learning in a new research series paid for by a variety of investors and corporations. No mention that Lexia Learning is owned by Rosetta Stone. Very thorough research, gj.

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” ISTE has hired Joseph South as its Chief Learning Officer. “​ Pearson to Lay Off 3,000 More Employees,” says Edsurge. Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2.

Education 45

Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

“Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. And in Edsurge, Amber Oliver and Michael Horn write , “Without the Right Curriculum , Personalized Learning Is Just Another Fad.” Chatterbug is a language learning startup. They’re back?

MOOC 47

MOOC Education Company Coursera 47

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.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JULY 6, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Pearson today signaled an increased focus on artificial intelligence and personalized learning with the appointment of former Intel executive Milena Marinova.” ” Though a goal of AI is automation, Marinova stressed that Pearson’s intent is not to replace instructors, but to help them.

Education 46

Education Pearson MOOC Chegg 46

Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

.” We’ve reached “ Flipped Learning 3.0 ,” so that’s exciting. ” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc. Via The Guardian : “Education publisher Pearson reports biggest loss in its history.”

Education 40

Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lessons Learned From a $75 Million Failed Experiment.” ” That is, the closure of the University of Texas System’s Institute for Transformational Learning. ” Via the Google blog : “Learn with Google AI: Making ML education available to everyone.”

Education 48

Education Chegg MOOC Broadband 48