{"id":24322,"date":"2011-10-14T15:59:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T19:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=24322"},"modified":"2011-10-14T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:00:22","slug":"pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-with-a-new-free-system-fischman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/10\/14\/pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-with-a-new-free-system-fischman\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearson and Google jump into learning management with a new, free system [Fischman]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-systems\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Pearson and Google jump into learning management with a new, free system<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from The Chronicle by Josh Fischman<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One of the world\u2019s biggest education publishers has joined with one of the most dominant and iconic software companies on the planet to bring colleges a new\u2014and free\u2014learning-management system with the hopes of upending services that affect just about every instructor, student, and college in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Today <a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.pearsonhighered.com\/\">Pearson<\/a>, the publishing and learning technology group, has teamed up with the software giant Google to launch OpenClass, a free LMS that combines standard course-management tools with advanced social networking and community-building, and an open architecture that allows instructors to import whatever material they want, from e-books to YouTube videos. The program will launch through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/apps\/intl\/en\/edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Apps for Education<\/a>, a very popular e-mail, calendar, and document-sharing service that has more than 1,000 higher-education customers, and it will be hosted by Pearson with the intent of freeing institutions from the burden of providing resources to run it. It enters a market that has been dominated by costly institution-anchored services like Blackboard, and open-source but labor-intensive systems like Moodle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pearson and Google jump into learning management with a new, free system &#8212; from The Chronicle by Josh Fischman Excerpt: One of the world\u2019s biggest education publishers has joined with one of the most dominant and iconic software companies on the planet to bring colleges a new\u2014and free\u2014learning-management system with the hopes of upending services [&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":[208,28,3,180,62,133,76,140,436],"tags":[19,583,602,661,240,640,779,747],"class_list":["post-24322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-cmslms","category-higher-education","category-innovation","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-open-courseware-and-systems","category-publishing","category-reinvent","tag-cloud-computing","tag-cmslms","tag-google","tag-innovation","tag-new-publishing-models","tag-publishing","tag-reinvent","tag-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24322"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24327,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions\/24327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}