EdNews Daily

MARCH 16, 2019

If you have a passion for education technology and serving an international student base, this could be the right place for you. Pearson Online. Many in our EdNews Daily community have worked as test administrators or scorers for Pearson in the past, but they have hundreds of other job possibilities as well.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Pearson, with a market cap of $8.5 From that year through 2017, the company invested an estimated $700 million to bolster its education technology offerings, according to The Telegraph. billion in revenue in 2018, and will boast a library of 44,000 textbook titles, according to the Journal.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

They’re rejecting time- and place-based education; creating low-cost degrees; adopting competency- or outcome-based education; emphasizing digital technologies; focusing on populations underrepresented in traditional higher education; and offering pioneering subject matters and certifications. Consider online instruction.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Are any education technologies, for that matter? Computing platforms have different abstraction levels, including a computer architecture, an OS, or runtime libraries. And accordingly, platforms are the underlying trend that ties together popular narratives about technology and the economy in general. They’re amazing.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 31, 2015

This week I was presenting on technology infused reading strategies and resources for K-5 teachers and wanted to share them. This strategy uses technology in two stations. We Give Books is a Pearson Foundation initiative that allows students to read books (no audio) for ages 4-10 years old.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In the second eye-raising deal for the higher-ed publishing industry in as many weeks, Wiley, a major textbook publisher, has agreed to acquire the assets of Knewton, a provider of digital courseware and adaptive-learning technologies. And around 2017, publishers including Pearson that once used Knewton began to pull back.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Perlego gives users access to a library of content, including digital textbooks. So far the company has won participation by major textbook publishers, including Palgrave, Wiley and Pearson. One partner, Pearson, took a pre-tax loss of approximately $3.2 And it’s currently in the process of closing an agreement with McGraw Hill.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2022

“In terms of working with it, and finding out how it's going to work with the rest of our library, which was, again, one of the reasons why we didn't openly talk about it, because we're still in the process of integrating and figuring out how best it works in our library,” Morris says.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2019

For example, in mid-July, publishing giant Pearson announced it will adopt a “digital first” strategy for updating college course materials. The decrease follows a trend of near-steady spending decline going back at least 10 years to 2007-2008, when students reported spending an average of $701 on course materials.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has forced schools to double down on—and in some cases try for the first time—online education technologies, from digital science labs to virtual campus tours. But students at some colleges and universities still rely on print , which is a problem when bookstores and libraries have closed.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

For Devlin Daley’s next act, he’s employed a strategy that worked for his previous education business: visit college campuses to see what technologies made students’ and instructors’ lives harder. Pearson spokesman Scott Overland pushed back against the idea that publisher software is outdated.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. From bundling its clicker technology with course materials from other publishers, the company now offers a marketplace and authoring tools for people to build their own courses on the platform. More than 90 percent of its users are in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

Print textbooks are the eternal punching bag for the things people think technology should render obsolete. spending on PreK-12 instructional technology steadily ticked upwards, from $2.6 In Pearson’s preliminary 2018 results released in February, the publisher said it expects flat revenue or even a 5 percent decline for its U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Three of the country’s largest publishers, Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill Education and Cengage Learning, are suing Follett Corporation, a major textbook distributor, on charges of selling counterfeit textbooks in its stores. Other textbook distributors, including Chegg, Inc.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Complaints and Lawsuits Public colleges and libraries are prohibited by law from discriminating against people with disabilities, as are private educational institutions that receive federal funds, including accepting students taking out federal loans. Yet suggestions and trainings may not go far enough.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Knewton drew heaps of hype and investment by promising to provide artificial-intelligence technology to major textbook companies to make their content more adaptive. But in the past few years the company has suffered several setbacks—along with mounting criticism that its founding CEO, Jose Ferreira, overhyped its technology.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

MyON was previously a division of Capstone , which formed in 1990 as a print publisher serving schools and libraries. The mission behind myON, says Brekhus, who began his education technology career as a teacher, is to “de-fragment the one-book-for-all model” for reading instruction.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

Agarwal moderated a conversation between Mark Cousino, director of learning design and technology at Boeing, and TC Haldi, senior director of MITxPro , which develops professional learning programs. Yet technology may be changing that at some schools (or “disrupting” it in Christensen parlance). Are Libraries Ready to Code?

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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.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

This is a LIVE show presented in news show format featuring a Wrap up of “This Month in School Libraries” and deeper discussion of topical school library issues with special guest experts. These interactive sessions on future technology trends will present key issues faced by information professionals and educators.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 20, 2020

Join me for this free webinar with Jennifer Pearson, an American teacher who evacuated from China because of the coronavirus. Technology is NOT a solution. How to Plan for Technology Integration – SULS005. [On-Air A Framework for Meaningful Technology Integration – SULS003. Google Certification Resource page.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. Kids Discover ‘s interactive digital library, Kids Discover Online, now includes custom assessment capabilities.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

ESSA lays out accountabilities that must be tracked by technology and data systems. Prior to igniting the flame that grew to be Acumen Partners in 2012, Steve engaged in principal leadership positions in leading organizations including Pearson, McGraw Hill, Master Teacher, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and EdLights. Join the Community.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 29, 2016

The move “positions VIF to deliver best-in-breed technology to enhance and expand professional learning and collaboration opportunities for educators,” VIF said in a statement. Pearson also recently formed a partnership with Teaching Channel , an online community for teachers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

There should also be outreach to new partners such as libraries and local city councils in an effort to obtain resources and other support. Susan Gentz is a partner at K20Connect, a consulting consortium of experts focused on education leadership, technology and policy. Staying Organized and Healthy. About the Presenters.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

Steve Steve Hargadon LearningRevolution.com | Library 2.0 | Classroom 2.0 | GlobalEducationConference.org More about this week's guests: Lian Chikako Chang: " I'm a data storyteller. In a past life, I've written about architecture--specifically, how technology, biology, and culture intersect in our experience of our environments and selves.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

PowerSchool Acquires TIENET: The K-12 technology solutions provider acquired TIENET— a software package for the individualized education programs, or IEP s, that are a federal requirement for students with disabilities—from MAXIMUS. Nearpod Raises $9.2 million in a Series A funding round led by Reach Capital.

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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.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When I look at the marketplace for instructional tools and resources, I see something similar—whether it’s technology or print, project or inquiry based, there are a plethora of tools available for teachers to try. Follett’s Lightbox™ delivers a balanced approach to embedded technology tools and activities to engage students with learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The latest player to jump in is Pearson, which released Pearson Plus over the summer as a “pay-as-you-go” alternative to traditional textbooks. Subscribers to Pearson Plus pay $9.99 Meanwhile, when students resell their books, Gan says, Pearson no longer plays a role in the quality of that experience.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 20, 2020

Join me for this free webinar with Jennifer Pearson, an American teacher who evacuated from China because of the coronavirus. Technology is NOT a solution. How to Plan for Technology Integration – SULS005. [On-Air A Framework for Meaningful Technology Integration – SULS003. Google Certification Resource page.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2024

Leaders in the sector, including 2U, Coursera and Keypath, never made a profit on the activity, and Pearson and Wiley sold off their OPM offshoots in recent months when the going got rough. 2U had the technology and the means at first,” Pedro Noguera, dean of USC’s Rossier School of Education, told me recently.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference is almost here! Huge thanks to the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science , the founding sponsor of the conference. There is lots of fun below, and especially don''t miss the first weekly recorded podcast with Audrey Watters!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

The Future of Libraries world-wide conference , Library 2.012, now has dates: October 3 - 5. Huge thank to the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University for stepping up to be the founding sponsor again this year! Look for more information and announcements at Classroom20.com.

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