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Edtech Providers Collaborate for a Unified Approach to Interoperability

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In the realm of education technology, a similar disarray unfolds without a standardized system for edtech interoperability. Andrea Press Classroom Assessment Technical Support Supervisor Pearson Interoperability in education allows different software applications to communicate and work together effectively.

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Pearson Still Won’t Buy Your Startup. But It May Invest in It.

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Pearson probably still won’t buy your startup. Today, the publisher announced the launch of Pearson Ventures, a $50 million fund earmarked for education technology startups raising Series A and B rounds. The fund is framed as an effort to “future proof the company,” says Owen Henkel, managing director of Pearson Ventures.

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Epic Outages of Edtech Tools Show K-12 Schools Are Vulnerable to Cyberattacks

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edtech: Information technology for K-12 public schools in America is a $760 billion sector, affecting over 50 million students. For many schools across the country, which require edtech to function, third-party vendors would be better equipped to handle cybersecurity, argues Jim Siegl, senior technologist at the Future of Privacy Forum.

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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And we’re filing stories that capture the essence of the edtech industry in 2018. And Pearson is still around. But the edtech industry has hit some bumps along the way, wrestling with collateral concerns from the public spotlight over data privacy and security. What’s Next for Pearson? If you buy it, you better use it.

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Pearson Bets One Small Step for Research Is a Leap for Learning Design

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Pearson Education did something it’s never done before. This week the London-based publishing and assessment giant released a set of learning design principles that anyone can use to develop edtech products. Pearson has been building this collection of learning design principles over the past three years, Porcaro says.

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The Vocabulary Doctors: How to Teach Vocabulary

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How to Use Vocabulary Builder on Your Kindle Paperwhite. Kimberly’s Literacy Blog and has collaborated in writing classroom curriculum and language arts sections as well as chairing the Elementary Reading National Evaluation Preparation Committee for Pearson Education. So check the show notes; you’ll see how to do that. [00:08:00].

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

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As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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