Schooling in the Ownership Society: For Pearson CEO, measurable learning outcomes is a growth industry

Schooling in the Ownership Society: For Pearson CEO, measurable learning outcomes is a growth industry:

For Pearson CEO, measurable learning outcomes is a growth industry

Pearson CEO Fallon

“Education is now emerging as one of the major growth industries for the next decade and beyond; it is serving a huge rise in the global middle class, and we now need to be thinking of how to serve global products focused on efficacy,” says Pearson CEO John Fallon.

Our strategy is to transform Pearson into a single operating company that is sharply 

 

Can MOOCS replace face-to-face teaching/learning?

Peter Scott, a professor of higher education studies, writes about MOOCS in yesterday's Guardian. The acronym stands for mass open online course, now rapidly replacing face-to-face teaching/learning in post-secondary education in Britain and the U.S.. The idea is to make higher education more accessible to the masses by uploading more and more courses to the Cloud. But the reality is that the test

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