Education
February 29, 2016 at 2:07 pm
Earlier this month, an EdWeek Market Brief reported that Amazon is preparing to beta-test a platform for open educational resources (OER) — textbooks and other classroom instructional materials that are provided online at no charge to users. Reportedly the platform will be called Amazon Inspire and is tentatively scheduled for public roll-out within the next…
February 26, 2016 at 3:27 pm
Pearson PLC (PSON.LN) on Friday recorded a jump in full-year profit after earnings were boosted by the landmark sale of its trophy publishing assets, even as the education products specialist warned it faces a challenging outlook this year. London-based Pearson said its 2015 net profit soared to 823 million pounds ($1.15 billion) from GBP471 million…
February 25, 2016 at 11:55 am
As a young Pakistani-American Muslim girl growing up in Connecticut, Zareen Jaffery used to devour novels by Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume, hoping those stories would offer some clues for how to fit in. “I remember looking at books to try to figure out, ‘What does it mean to be American? Am I doing this…
February 24, 2016 at 1:59 pm
WASHINGTON — February 22, 2016 — The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today announced the creation of a Center for Innovation & Digital Learning, an initiative designed to promote new ideas in the digital learning space and to support the development of next-generation educational technologies. “Learning materials are no longer solely the printed textbooks of…
February 22, 2016 at 1:42 pm
SAN FRANCISCO — February 16, 2016 — Worldreader, a nonprofit dedicated to improving literacy in the developing world using digital books, today announced that it has been named by Fast Company as one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Not-For-Profit Companies. Most innovative Companies is one of Fast Company’s most significant and highly anticipated editorial…
February 18, 2016 at 2:18 pm
Back in 2013, Google launched Play for Education, a program that made it easier for educators to purchase apps and books and distribute them to their students’ Android tablets. Now, this program is coming to an end. As first reported by CRN and also confirmed by us today, Google will stop selling Play for Education…
February 16, 2016 at 1:09 pm
LOS ANGELES and LONDON — February 16, 2016 — SAGE Publishing, one of the world’s leading independent and academic publishers, announces the selection of Atypon, the Silicon Valley-based publishing technology firm, to host all SAGE Journals content on Literatum, Atypon’s pioneering online publishing platform. Welcoming the announcement, Bob Howard, Vice President Journals Editorial, said: “We…
February 16, 2016 at 1:02 pm
The latest Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium (NMC) gives deep insight into how education is being shaped by technology. EdTech spoke with one of the key figures behind the Horizon report — the NMC’s senior director of publications and communications, Samantha Becker — to learn a little more about what goes into these…
February 15, 2016 at 2:35 pm
BOSTON — February 11, 2016 — Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) today announced the launch of READ 180 Universal, the next generation intervention program that utilizes leading scientific research in brain and cognitive functioning to support struggling readers and unlock their reading abilities. Reading proficiency relies on collaboration among different regions of the brain which together…
February 9, 2016 at 11:45 am
“Adaptive learning.” Two words that have haunted headlines and press releases ever since I started this job in 2011—and likely even before then. Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone says they’re doing it too. But there are plenty of misconceptions and a lack of shared understanding between schools and companies about what…
