Pearson Launches OpenClass: First Full-Featured Learning Environment that’s Free, Easy-to-Use and Scalable
13 Oktober 2011 - 7:25PM
Business Wire
Pearson today made a major move to increase access and
collaboration in higher education by launching the beta version of
OpenClass. A key component of Pearson’s vision to increase access,
achievement and affordability, OpenClass offers institutions and
instructors the ability to engage and interact with their students
using the collaborative technologies that students are embracing—at
no cost.
OpenClass is a new kind of learning management system (LMS)
delivered from the Cloud. It is easy to use and completely free.
There are no hardware, licensing or hosting costs, thus enabling
widespread adoption of new learning approaches that encourage
interaction within the classroom and around the world.
“Now, educators and students are able to communicate and
collaborate in new ways across institutions and around the
globe—providing a richer, more personal and more connected learning
experience. At no cost,” said Matt Leavy, CEO of Pearson
eCollege.
OpenClass integrates seamlessly with Google Apps for Education™
and will be available starting this week in the Google Apps
Marketplace™, Google's online storefront for Google Apps™ products
and services. With single sign-on and a unified navigation bar,
instructors and students can launch OpenClass from within Google
Apps or access their Google applications from OpenClass. Launching
OpenClass in the Google Apps Marketplace™ provides institutions
with the easiest path to adoption and an avenue to reach
institutions already familiar with the benefits of cloud-based
solutions.
“We’re excited to have OpenClass in the Google Apps
Marketplace,” said Obadiah Greenberg, Google’s Business Development
Manager for Education. “OpenClass is tightly integrated with Google
Apps for Education, our free suite of communication and
collaboration applications. Through the Google Apps Marketplace,
schools will have access to OpenClass. We are happy to offer this
complementary learning management system to the millions of
students, faculty and staff already using Google Apps.”
“OpenClass has huge potential for higher education,” said Adrian
Sannier, Senior Vice President of Learning Technologies at Pearson.
“OpenClass accelerates what technology will do for learning with a
free, open and innovative platform that easily scales and lets
students work via social media, with an intense focus on learning
that elevates achievement.”
Pearson, working closely with its design partners, will rapidly
advance the capabilities of OpenClass to leverage the rich data and
social foundations of the platform and the ability to release new
functionality frequently. Design partners include Abilene Christian
University, Arizona State University, Central Piedmont Community
College, West Virginia University at Parkersburg, Monash
University, Kentucky Community & Technical College System, Rice
University, the University of Wisconsin Extension, and Columbia
University. Many of these institutions are already teaching courses
on OpenClass this fall.
“We truly believe that OpenClass is a disruptive technology for
education,” said Kevin Roberts, Chief Planning and Information
Officer at Abilene Christian University. “Pearson’s commitment to
providing an open and free platform is monumental. The days of
‘business as usual’ in higher education are gone. OpenClass is a
powerful tool to help us move forward into the connected, mobile
and open world that we live in.”
For more information, visit www.joinopenclass.com.
About Pearson
Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, has global reach
and market-leading businesses in education, business information
and consumer publishing (NYSE: PSO).
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