edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

With a 25+ career in education, Arati has used her curriculum design skills to create unique learning experiences in education and nonprofit sectors at Pearson, EdSurge and Silicon Valley Education Foundation. She has also leveraged these skills to create employee onboarding and training programs at Apple, Facebook, Google and Uber.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2019

In a recent lawsuit, an Illinois woman and her daughter accuse Pearson, the multinational publishing and education company, of exposing the information of more than 1 million students when it failed to detect or respond to a 2018 data breach. . The impact of storage security failure is substantial. But security doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

The “oligopoly,” as we called it, was the natural outcome of a highly decentralized system and fragmented demand. The structure of demand created the “Big Three”—McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson. Google Classroom has instead emerged as the de facto standard platform, fueled by the runaway adoption of Chromebooks.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

.” You’ll often hear its advocates invoke Benjamin Bloom’s 1984 study on “ the 2 Sigma Problem ” and claim that one-on-one tutoring is radically effective at improving student outcomes. The results of Bloom’s investigation are a little suspect; or at least, they’ve never been replicated.

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edWeb.net

JULY 2, 2021

Teachers use Google Classroom and other web-based apps across subject areas, which can also be displayed and stored on the board. Outcomes, Impact and the Future. Michael has held leadership positions in sales and marketing with Learning Bird, Follett Software Company, ETA hand2mind, Pearson, Cengage and McGraw-Hill Higher Education.

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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. New York, NY: Pearson Education. Reiser & J. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (4th ed.).

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As well as teaching a graduate course at Columbia Teacher''s College in Educational Technology and directing the Technology and Innovation at The School, he is an author for Pearson''s Interactive Science Program (a K-8 Science series for 21st century schools). BIO : Jaime Casap is the Global Education Evangelist at Google, Inc.

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Google ’s chairman Eric Schmidt praises Trump. ” The publishers in question are Cengage , McGraw-Hill , and Pearson. Testing, Testing… Via Chalkbeat : “Calculator mix-up could force some students to retake ISTEP, and Pearson is partially to blame.” ” The testing firm in question: Pearson.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Silicon Valley does include Mountain View, where Google is headquartered. Turns out that “free” might not be the best business model for a for-profit company, particularly one that cannot rely on advertising the same way that other “free” products like Facebook and Google can. They aspire to be monopolies.

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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.” Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “British Officials, Pearson Probe Effort to Leak Test Content.” ” Via Backchannel : “‘We Will Literally Predict Their Life Outcomes’ – Scientist Vivienne Ming says she can foretell a child’s earning potential, happiness, even longevity.

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” accuse Google of failing to gain their consent before scanning their emails via its Apps For Education suite for advertising purposes,” says Education Dive. Pearson hearts coding bootcamps.

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Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Throughout the year, the Department of Education also took steps to strengthen the oversight of accreditors, adding requirements regarding data that they had to report to the government and to the public as well as pressuring accreditors to do more to improve “student outcomes” at the schools they monitored. The Techdegree.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

. “Mind-reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton has a new CEO , Brian Kibby , formerly with Pearson. ” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest. .” ” Google profiles Niji Collins , a winner in the latest Google Code-In contest.

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

” Via Gizmodo : “‘Bro Culture’ Led to Repeated Sexual Harassment , Former Google Engineer’s Lawsuit Says.” ” Another Google lawsuit, as reported by Ars Technica : “Ex-Google recruiter : I was fired because I resisted ‘illegal’ diversity efforts.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Other companies with similar models: Spark Schools, which raised $9 million this year from the Omidyar Network and Pearson, and APEC, also funded by Pearson. “We will literally predict their life outcomes,” claims one scientist. Whose values and interests are actually reflected in these algorithms ?

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Technology Education Pearson Company 40

Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Via Techcrunch : “ Grasshopper , a learn-to-code app from Google ’s Area 120 incubator, goes live.” ” Via Edsurge : “ Google and Udacity Offering 5,000 Scholarships for Nanodegree Programs.” ” Via Edsurge : “What’s Next for Pearson ? ” The Business of Job Training.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Google , in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans ” – so enjoy that Google Certification, educators. Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” That’d be Hugo Barra , a former Google exec.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ U of Florida Online finds stability after canceling deal with Pearson , but scales back its plan for ”exponential“ growth in online education for undergraduates.” ” From Google Research : “ Community college pathways to a four-year computer science degree.” ”).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. And Silicon Valley tech investors, as well as large education corporations like Pearson, are behind this. Facebook is, although Mark Zuckerberg denies it , a media company. The Court refused , for example, to re-open the Friedrichs v. “The fix” is always privatization.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

a blockbuster case whose outcome will affect whether transgender students can use the school bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. Its outcome will have ramifications in schools throughout the country.” ” Google announced it was cutting jobs in its Google Fiber division. IBM partners with Pearson.

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