eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2023

She genuinely has an interest in helping students make the most out of their time in her classroom, whether it’s developing a resumé or earning as many Microsoft certifications as possible.” I think the most important thing that Karen brings to the table is her passion.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2023

In addition, Osmond has held executive positions at companies such as Pearson Assessments and Certiport, a Pearson VUE business. He has also led education programs at Microsoft and Novell. After that, Osmond was promoted to global lead for the AWS Training and Certification team.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In one middle school that participated in the Digital Promise study, teachers used Microsoft Forms, which utilizes Azure to collect and analyze data. The tool, available as part of Microsoft 365 Education , helped teachers conduct a preassessment to measure each student’s skill level before lessons began. . by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Originally, the curriculum and textbook giant Pearson filed for the pair of patents in 2017, on behalf of the online credential product it made at the time called Acclaim. It’s worth noting that both Pearson and Credly had long been working with the Open Badges community. “These things have existed for a really long time,” she adds.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Pearson Ventures, International Finance Corp., In a statement Monday, Pearson announced its $2.2 As part of Pearson Ventures’ first investments, it also gave $2 million to Knowledge to Practice, a Bethesda, Md. Graduates have landed jobs with employers like Microsoft, Facebook and Boeing. Reach Capital led the round.

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TeacherCast

JULY 29, 2018

This year at ISTE , I had the opportunity to sit down with Tricia Van Hollebeke, Justin Chando and Mike Tholfsen from the Microsoft Education team at the Microsoft Education booth. Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Forms integration. Microsoft Education at ISTE. Microsoft Innovative Educator. Topics Include.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

About four years ago, Pearson purchased the company that supported North Carolina’s Student data system called NC WISE. Pearson then informed the state that it was shutting down support for NC WISE. Naturally, North Carolina then purchased Pearson’s PowerSchool software to provide the state with a state-wide student data system.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

One of the interesting things I’ve seen in the K–12 space in particular as it relates to the technology is there is a lot of interest but also a lot of questions,” says Dan Ayoub, general manager of mixed reality education at Microsoft , in an interview. We still hear content get called out quite a bit,” Ayoub says. “We

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2017

A new collaboration between Pearson and Microsoft is using a self-contained holographic computer to develop “mixed reality” learning experiences for students. Microsoft says its HoloLens is the world’s first self-contained holographic computer. Video: Hololens.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

Kahoot CEO Eilert Hanoa says his team is adding a new feature that will enable closer integration with Microsoft Teams. Microsoft is an investor in Kahoot.) In its unaudited Q1 update, Pearson reported a 5 percent revenue dip in Q1 2020, driven in part by a continuing decline in its U.S. on Tuesday, up 7 percent from NOK 74.50

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 2, 2020

Microsoft have created a repository of learning and teaching resources for parents who are home schooling primary and middle school children. Educational publisher Pearson has made many tools for learning free to access during the crisis. London CLC (Education Development Trust) has provided a guide for remote learning.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JUNE 30, 2016

The large publishing companies ( Pearson , McGraw Hill ), technology players ( Google , Amazon ), and more well established ed tech ( Edmodo , BrainPOP ) all have a lot of real estate, including about a dozen people on the floor, and presentation theaters. I spoke with several start-ups to see how they were heard over the noise.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Microsoft has long had a beef with Google—even if the company won’t always admit it today—dating back to the “Scroogled” advertisement campaign that critiqued the search giant’s Chromebooks and privacy policies. K-12 mobile devices, Microsoft still has some catching up to do. Is the window of opportunity open for Microsoft to catch up?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

GOING TO MICROSOFT’S MARKET: Fresh off the heels of its whirlwind of product launches and announcements on May 2, Microsoft’s education partnerships team dedicated an entire day to wooing companies to join its Microsoft Education Program. Its first partner was. Which one would you hire?”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

And Pearson is still around. What’s Next for Pearson? But has Pearson, the world’s biggest education company, finally turned the corner on its rocky digital transformation journey? Apple and Google continue to up the ante in their quest to win adoption in classrooms. Not Buying Your Education Startup.).

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techlearning

JANUARY 23, 2019

Certiport, provider of performance-based IT certification exams, today announced the release of Compass, a new web-based exam delivery system powered by Microsoft Azure.    Compass is exclusive to Certiport and Pearson VUE and can test candidates in multiple languages with secure browser-based software.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

It’s a topic that I’ve been thinking about recently, particularly with yesterday’s revelation that Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation. I believe the reason Lisa feels compelled to call out Pearson’s behavior as “pillaging” is because it ignores the core value of open education – sharing.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

As such these companies – Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and the like – are the most significant education companies. Pearson is Not a Platform. I’m not sure if we can still call Pearson “the world’s largest education company.” Pearson does not have a platform.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

The conferences were the most publicly visible part of SIIA’s education programming, attracting executives from big textbook publishers along with their peers from major technology companies with growing education footprints, including Apple and Microsoft. Panels and keynotes covered the latest industry trends.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 7, 2020

As I learned many weeks ago from my interview with Jennifer Pearson , a teacher who had been teaching her students in China remotely for many weeks, this is NOT the time to throw a bunch of new tools at our teachers and students. Whether that is Google Classroom, a Google Doc, a Google Site, SeeSaw, Microsoft Teams, whatever, keep it simple!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 6, 2018

I do a show for the Jersey Educators Association and I also do it for Microsoft Education. Jeff has provided Keynote speeches for the Pearson Authentic Learning Conference, EdTechNJ, and most recently at Columbia University’s Teacher College and Podcast Mid-Atlantic conference. Plus my client shows. Vicki: Wow. But I love doing it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2021

To address the many structural issues and long-standing inequities in our society, we must think differently about how we approach and deliver an education and training ecosystem that meets the needs of all constituents,” said Josh Slayton, senior vice president of corporate development and impact investing for ECMC Group.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Certiport, a Pearson VUE business, a test delivery solution provider for the global workforce and academic markets, announced the CERTIFIED 2016 Educator Conference, a conference dedicated to helping educators bring the full promise and potential of technology certification to the classroom.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Teachers are most likely to primarily use phones (38%) to communicate with parents of students, followed by email (20%) or a messaging platform (17%) like Microsoft Teams. 62% of teachers use translation daily to communicate with parents of students, with 35% and 3% using translation weekly or monthly, respectively.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2018

Microsoft's partnership with Pearson includes HoloChemistry for primary, secondary and college students, and HoloPatient for nursing students. Case Western Reserve and Cleveland Clinic created HoloAnatomy with Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality technology. “We

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The practice is widespread from top to bottom: Apple, Google and Microsoft train and certify teachers who demonstrate expertise with their wares. Five years ago, the New York Times probed Pearson about currying favors to win testing contracts from education officials by paying for overseas trips.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2016

Cisco, Dell, ENA, Filewave, Fortinet, Google, Google Fiber, iBoss Security, iDentityAutomation, itslearning, JAMF Software, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, Lightspeed Systems, McGraw Hill, Microsoft, Nutanix, Pearson, Presidio, Promethean, Qualcomm, ReverTech, Safari Montage, Samsung, SchoolDude, SchoolMessenger and Sunesys.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 6, 2020

In this candid interview, I chat with Jennifer Pearson, a tech coach who recently evacuated from China due to the Corona Virus. by Jennifer Pearson. Google Classroom, Seesaw, OneNote, or Microsoft Teams are all useful. Teachers and administrators listen up! We need to have plans in place so we can react accordingly.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Cisco, Dell, ENA, Filewave, Fortinet, Google, HP, iBoss Security, Identity Automation, Ipswitch, itslearning, JAMF Software, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, Lightspeed Systems, McGraw Hill, Microsoft, Pearson, Presidio, Promethean, Qualcomm, Safari Montage, SchoolDude, Sprint, and Verizon.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 28, 2020

Now is not the time for new tools, as we learned from Jennifer Pearson. Leaning on G Suite, Microsoft, and other Tools to Survive. Most schools have found themselves leaning heavily on G Suite or Microsoft tools to survive. Schools have been leaning on G Suite and Microsoft to survive. Offline and Online Activities.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The company has also begun partnering with other companies such as Pearson and Microsoft. Both K-12 and higher-ed institutions have begun to use WriteLab’s tools, including the likes of Stanford University, UC Riverside and the charter network, Carpe Diem. Even so, Ramirez described the edtech environment as “extremely challenging.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 29, 2018

Twenty years ago, proprietary software companies like Microsoft were equivalent to the devil himself for many in the open source community, much as commercial publishers like Pearson are demonized by many in the open education movement today. How has that worked out?

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer. More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

They use Microsoft Word and Excel. They get their textbooks from Pearson, from Macmillan. Pretty much every university in the world, whether they like it or not—and I think most of them do like it—has to use corporations for services. What university builds its own technology platform? Nonexistent. That's a corporation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

There are publishers like Pearson, tech companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google. Creating a sustainable digital media is very difficult. Like everything in America, business is often deeply controlled by monopolies. And for a startup to get past those monopolies is very difficult.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

PEARSON & LITTLEBITS ( www.pearson.com.) & ( littlebits.cc/education education ) Pearson, has partnered with littleBits, bringing hands-on invention-based model of learning and teaching into its 3-8 science curriculum, Elevate Science, in a new program called,”Pearson littleBits STEM Invention Toolbox.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although no doubt, Microsoft, now the owner of Minecraft, would like us all to repeat that particular storyline.) Pearson, for one.) That this is how a venture capitalist would characterize the future of education is, nonetheless, quite notable. This year, Yik Yak shut down, despite having raised some $73 million in venture funding.

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