{"id":18552,"date":"2011-04-27T15:22:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T19:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=18552"},"modified":"2011-04-27T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T19:23:10","slug":"pearson-acquisitions-siemens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/04\/27\/pearson-acquisitions-siemens\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearson acquisitions [Siemens]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futurelearn.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/pearson-acquisitions\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pearson acquisitions <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from FutureLearn.org by George Siemens<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Education is on a path to globalization, roughly where businesses were  in the 1970s. No clear leader exists, conglomerates haven\u2019t made a huge  impact yet, technology is marginally used for conducting business, and  acquisitions to expand market capacity are rare. That\u2019s changing.  Pearson is rapidly pursuing acquisitions. The education sector, from the  stance of corporations, is ripe for innovation. For startups this is a  great opportunity. The Silicon Valley effect (create a startup with the  intention of being purchased by Google, Microsoft, Facebook) is starting  to gain traction in the education sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearson acquisitions &#8212; from FutureLearn.org by George Siemens Excerpt: Education is on a path to globalization, roughly where businesses were in the 1970s. No clear leader exists, conglomerates haven\u2019t made a huge impact yet, technology is marginally used for conducting business, and acquisitions to expand market capacity are rare. That\u2019s changing. Pearson is rapidly pursuing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,286,35,95,3,180,239,140,20,367],"tags":[755,710,585,16,566,661,240,640,579,747],"class_list":["post-18552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-digital-learning","category-game-changing-environment","category-global-globalization","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-new-business-models","category-publishing","category-strategy","category-vendors","tag-business","tag-digital-learning","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-global-learning","tag-higher-education","tag-innovation","tag-new-publishing-models","tag-publishing","tag-strategy","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18552"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18555,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18552\/revisions\/18555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}