Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

Pearson today announced that it is responding to rocky conditions and poor performance in international markets by laying off 4,000 workers and putting a greater focus on adaptive courseware and classroom products, as well as blended and online learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

million settlement over curriculum from education software giant Pearson that the school system said its teachers barely used. Unified while Pearson provided curriculum on the devices as a subcontractor. As a result, the settlement was with Apple, even though the dispute concerned the Pearson product.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Same for Matific, which gives students math practice tailored to their skill level, and Edgenuity, which develops online courses. Online course creator Edgenuity claims that its math course led to an eightfold increase in pass rates on state math tests at Altamont High School in Utah. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2020

Back then, the company was a search tool for identifying online courses. I’ve never made an investment without meeting someone physically,” Sherman says. Returning investors included Costanoa Ventures, Pearson Ventures, Reach Capital, International Finance Corporation, 500 Startups, Blue Fog Capital and Learn Capital.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 20, 2019

The post and podcast episode are sponsored by Advancement Courses. Subscribe to the Show 5 Examples of Positive, Personal PD for Powerful Teacher Learning Vicki: Today we’re doing a special episode with Krysia Lazarewicz from Advancement Courses. Course mentioned in Example #2.

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Neo LMS

MAY 2, 2017

Technology in the classroom may not have reached its full potential yet, but both teachers and students know there’s more to it than meets the eye. A recent Pearson Student Mobile Device Survey clearly states that the number of students who regularly use a tablet has grown compared to the previous year.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 7, 2020

I always come back to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, and meeting these basic needs is more important than a worksheet or checklist. If your school has enabled a video conferencing tool like Zoom or Hangouts Meet, set aside a couple of hours to be online for any students who want to chat. Choose a Platform and Stick with It!

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

Coordinate scheduling for the meetings with students over email. UMUC hires online Adjunct Faculty for various courses including both undergraduate and graduate. They strive to make courses that are flexible and adaptable, and that offer students an alternative to the traditional classroom setting. Read More and Apply.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Of course, even that small fraction would mean 70,000 students. Back in 2010, Walmart began a partnership with American Public University, a for-profit college, to give all Walmart employees a 15 percent discount on the college’s courses. Brandman will tailor some of its courses in logistics and business for the Walmart students.

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 5, 2018

Build Unique Activities : If possible, teachers should incorporate more than individual feedback into the course curriculum. After meeting all of the logistical and academic needs suggested above, your international school can become a place where students and teachers make tangible and meaningful connections. Green Team Educators.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. He’d made honor roll before the pandemic hit, but ended the 2020-21 school year failing all four courses, Murphy said. At Stride Inc., has asthma.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2018

He then mills around the room, meeting with students individually or in small groups. In the traditional model, students need to pass a specific set of courses to graduate. As an example, Pearson offers a course in the criminal justice program. Vanessa Pearson, UMPI’s interim dean of students. Dobrin asks.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

Coordinate scheduling for the meetings with students over email. UMUC hires online Adjunct Faculty for various courses including both undergraduate and graduate. They strive to make courses that are flexible and adaptable, and that offer students an alternative to the traditional classroom setting. Read More and Apply.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

Even teacher prep programs that are offered via online courses don’t necessarily instruct teacher candidates how to educate students remotely, says Lynn Gangone, president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. The Guide to Teaching Online Courses , from the National Education Association.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

To find out more about what the company has in store for students and instructors, schools and colleges, we set up an interview with Zoom … on Zoom, of course. In higher education, students and professors generally want more support for collaborative learning and deeper engagement with each other and the course material.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JUNE 9, 2012

Pearson Promo/Intro to OpenClass Just discovered Pearson''s OpenClass , a learning management system with social and collaboration tools. Pearson''s Announcement launching OpenClass in October, 2011. OpenClass website) Pearson seems to be very responsive to questions and concerns of its customers. Or does it?

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

But with the recent investment, he says his team is ready to scale to meet demand. Pearson, one of the publishers featured on the platform, recently reported that its print U.S. And Course Hero, which raised $10 million in February , has started working with textbook publishers to pair quizzes and reading materials.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Caffeinated founders paced the lobby in colorful T-shirts splattered with their company logos, polishing their pitches for their on-stage presentation and meetings with potential investors. Stavisky says it’s a short, intensive course that can take between one to three months to finish. The company also has a free vocabulary course.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS. Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2018

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online professional development courses for K-12 teachers. You can take these courses for continuing education, salary advancement, or recertification. They are practical courses that have teachers developing tangible resources to use in their classrooms immediately.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

There you're trying to meet the needs of everyone in the classroom and meet guidelines and expectations, and you want to have high test scores. The company I work with, DaDaABC , has partnerships with McGraw-Hill , Pearson , National Geographic , Oxford Reading Tree. I can't even imagine what it would be like otherwise.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2015

Unified officials demanded a refund from computer giant Apple over curriculum supplied on the devices by Pearson, which sells education services and materials worldwide. Pearson was a subcontractor to Apple under a contract approved by the Board of Education in June 2013. Unified acknowledged meeting with an agency attorney.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Among the newer aspects of these kinds of complaints is whether college social media communication meets accessibility standards. Nearly 200 colleges face federal civil rights investigations opened in 2019 about whether they are accessible and communicate effectively to people with disabilities.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

Courseware in Context (CWiC) framework aims to categorize and compare the range of emerging products that faculty are using to teach their online and blended courses. The CWiC framework defines it as “instructional content that is scoped and sequenced to support delivery of an entire course through purpose-built software.”.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2016

Edmodo Envoys host a TeachUp in their local area and can meet and exchange ideas with educators in their communities whom they might not otherwise have met. History courses can now receive college credit at Quincy College. History courses. History courses. High school students taking VHS ’ U.S.

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edWeb.net

MAY 25, 2021

While there are still times when in-person learning and longer courses are needed, educators and administrators have embraced the benefits of online PD. Virtual sales meetings benefit both educators and vendors. Virtual works well for one-on-one meetings, and it’s easy for either party to reschedule as needed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

The number taking microcredential programs from edX, the online course provider created by MIT and Harvard and the other major provider of this educational model, rose to 65,000 by the end of April, increasing 14-fold since early March alone. If I just sent out a flyer, no one would do these,” Pearson said. “I

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The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 25, 2014

That post, entitled "Common Core Standards Will Help NC Meet Its Challenges," was written by Caroline McCullen, the director of education initiatives at SAS which already has a multi-million dollar contract with North Carolina to provide value-added teacher data analysis software for teacher and principal evaluations. Who does it harm?

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

The San Francisco-based startup aims to help students find accredited and transferable college courses for when they aren’t able to get seats in courses that fill the same requirements at their own institution. When Dempsey typed, “I hate you!” Watson defty replied, “Ouch! That hurts you know. Let’s go back to my question.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2011-2020: From Early Adopters To Mainstream Adoption.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Angela has also authored or co-authored 13 books, including Blended Vocabulary for K–12 Classrooms: Harnessing the Power of Digital Tools and Direct Instruction (2017) and the bestseller The Data Teams Experience: A Guide to Effective Meetings (2014). Dr. Kimberly Tyson. Kimberly Tyson, or “Dr.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Long known for building learning solutions from the ground up to be used successfully in a blended classroom and online learning environment, Savvas, formerly Pearson K12 Learning, set out to further enhance its content and advanced technologies for more optimized remote teaching. Teaching Resources and Professional Learning Support.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

Even so, students are required to live in the same city and occasionally meet in person for study and projects (and each semester they move to a new city around the world). Of course, what happened is students wound up missing more classes. You have a senior year where you basically could design your own courses with professors.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Interoperability certification gives teachers, students freedom to assign and use any Pearson content regardless of LMS. Leading IMS members like Pearson are committed to creating content and applications that “play nice” with one another so that accessing content from multiple sources and publishers is a unified, continuous experience.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 5, 2020

One of the first tips I learned from Jennifer Pearson in this podcast interview , was to use a checklist for students. This comes in handy for modifications as we are trying to meet the needs of all learners. If you are all using Google Classroom, use it consistently. Use a Daily/Weekly Checklist. Leave a comment to share more tips!

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

In early 1998, a group of advocates got together for a strategy meeting to discuss how they could advance the cause of free software. When the university got serious about exploring the use of the internet for education, as webmaster I was appointed chair of the Electronic Course Oversite Committee.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Among those who have turned it into a livelihood are tutors, publishers like Pearson and Scholastic and printers. Of course, it’s an ideal, which is never reached entirely. That’s something where our field has to get its act together to be able to meet the needs of the future. . Two years ago, U.S. That’s an unfair test.

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