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Pearson Signals Major Shift From Print by Making All Textbook Updates ‘Digital First’

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And focusing on digital makes the secondary textbook market even less attractive, since students have to buy access directly from Pearson to get course materials. Meanwhile, Wiley acquired two startups— Knewton and Zyante —to bolster its courseware offerings. This enables us to offer prices that are highly competitive,” says Fallon.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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There’s Wiley, better known in academia and research, which recently acquired Knewton and zyBooks , to sell online higher-ed courseware. For Nelson, this sale marks its first step in its “strategic decision to withdraw from the post-secondary market,” it said in an announcement.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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It announced this year it was “ phasing out ” its reliance on Knewton provide those algorithms.). ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.) million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Founded in 2008 by a former Kaplan executive Jose Ferreira, Knewton was one of the most heavily funded ed-tech startups of the decade. Socorro Dove.

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