Company OER Pearson Trends 
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.
Edsurge
AUGUST 24, 2017
Open-licensed learning materials have generally been slower to carve out a spot in the K-12 market they have in higher education, where companies like Lumen Learning have found target demographics. Yet Open Up Resources , a nonprofit providing open educational resources for the K-12 space, wants to buck the trend. Larry Singer.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 15, 2019
This week’s filing was made by the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, or SPARC, and it says that in the short run, allowing the marriage of the companies would create a duopoly in the textbook market, with the new combined publisher rivaled in size only by Pearson.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” The company has raised some $77.5 ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe.
Iterating Toward Openness
JANUARY 13, 2017
Last year Bob Reiser invited me to contribute a chapter to the fourth edition of Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology , to be published by Pearson. Pearson agreed. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (4th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson Education.
Kitaboo on EdTech
DECEMBER 7, 2020
According to Pearson Education, 84% teachers , administrators and students think that shifting to digital can solve the challenges of education. The trends are visible all around the world with a recent push to transform higher education through the use of technology. Also Read: Ensuring Continuity in Learning in the Times of COVID-19.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 24, 2017
Mostly tutoring companies.). “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. ” “ Pearson , WTF? The business of OER. State and Local) Education Politics. restitution check.”
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