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What’s Next for Pearson? (Not Buying Your Education Startup.)

Edsurge

For Pearson, the world’s largest education company, some of its recent tumult in past years have been self-imposed, even deliberate, under the helm of John Fallon. But last year, Pearson posted a profit , the first sign that its rocky journey to transform itself into a digital-focused learning company may have turned the corner.

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

Edsurge

Top Hat got its start in the “clicker” business, offering a web-based and mobile classroom response tool that lets instructors gauge whether students understood the lesson (or paid attention). It has even tried partnering with publishers like Pearson to digitize their print materials, according to Silagadze.

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Why the World’s Youngest Continent Got an Edtech Accelerator

Edsurge

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. To that point, several teams are building solutions for “feature phones,” mobile devices that can connect to the internet but have limited storage and support for third-party apps. Yet their prospects are perilous. Yet the U.S.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

Rather than using their school buses to bring students to schools, the district turned its buses into mobile service providers that could deliver meals and other types of support to students, while also serving as internet connection hotspots. from Penn where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

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Can Technology in the Classroom Replace Expensive Textbooks

Kitaboo on EdTech

But these are secondary causes. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations. Similarly, Pearson has made some of its textbooks available for rent through Chegg. Kitaboo is a cloud-based content platform to create-publish-distribute interactive mobile-ready content.

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GED and other high school equivalency degrees drop by more than 40% nationwide since 2012

The Hechinger Report

“It’s a stepping stone to some sort of post-secondary credential, which determines your economic mobility in life,” said Hilliard, adding that high school degree is a prerequisite to pursue many professional certifications, from emergency medical technician to truck driver.

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10 Google Classroom Tips for Remote Learning

Shake Up Learning

Google Classroom is an app, both web, and mobile. One of the first tips I learned from Jennifer Pearson in this podcast interview , was to use a checklist for students. In secondary, this is most likely by subject. Google Classroom is part of a suite of applications from G Suite for Education.

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