Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

Platforms provide the substructure for the “gig economy” and the “sharing economy”; they’re the economic engine of social media; they’re the architecture of the “attention economy” and the inspiration for claims about the “end of ownership.” Pearson is Not a Platform.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

And then there’s the advice from Pearson. ’” asked a venture capitalist in an op-ed published by Pearson. LinkedIn, of course, had acquired online job training company Lynda.com last year for $1.5 “Which major is the best?” ” the education giant asked in June.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Turns out that Pearson, which once funded and acquired a lot of startups, isn’t in particularly good financial shape itself.). Now, it’s so very typically American to come to the UK to talk about ed-tech and to insist “oh really, it’s all about the US – our values.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Pearson filed a patent for badges. You can look to Lynda.com, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2015 for $1.5 Sony’s in the business. And Northeastern has teamed up with IBM to put digital badges on the blockchain. In other badging news, Salesforce received a patent for badges.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Via Venture Beat : “ LinkedIn resets some Lynda.com users’ passwords following data leak.” Royal Roads University’s George Veletsianos on Pearson ’s release of its learning design principles. Via The Awl : “Letting Kids Use Social Media Is One More Way We Show Them We Don’t Care About Them.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

“The ‘poor man’s MBA’ can boost salaries by 20%,” says CNN in a puff piece about LinkedIn , Lynda.com , and project management certificates. The social media platform had raised $2.5 in the Classroom” – by Rose Luckin and Wayne Holmes and sponsored by Pearson, of course.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on social media.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.

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