Pearson Education
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| Parent company | Pearson |
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| Founded | 1998 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Upper Saddle River, New Jersey |
| Publication types | Books |
| Number of employees | 40,000 (2009) |
| Official website | www.pearsoned.com |
Pearson Education is an international educational publishing and technology company providing textbooks and other educational material, such as multimedia learning tools. It was created in 1998 when Pearson purchased the education division of Simon & Schuster from Viacom and merged it with its own education division, Addison–Wesley Longman.
Pearson Education is headquartered in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey with major divisions headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Boston, MA, Columbus, Ohio, Glenview, IL, and Chandler, AZ.[1] It is part of Pearson PLC, which is headquartered in London, England, with offices in Harlow and Oxford.
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[edit] Imprints
Pearson Education has a number of publishing imprints:
- Addison-Wesley Professional
- Adobe Press
- Allyn & Bacon
- Benjamin Cummings
- Cisco Press
- Contren
- enVision Math
- Exam Cram
- Financial Times
- FT Press
- Heinemann
- IBM Press
- InformIT
- LifeBound
- Macromedia Press
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[edit] Partnerships
Pearson Education has partnered with five other higher-education publishers to create CourseSmart, a company developed to sell college textbooks in eTextbook format on a common platform.[2]
[edit] Technology products
- Course Compass extensions to Blackboard Inc.'s
- CourseConnect, a library of customisable online courses
- Livelessons, video training from technology experts
- MyMathLab and MyStatsLab, comprehensive online, interactive teaching/learning systems[3]
- Pearson LearningStudio, SaaS-based Learning Management System
- Market Leader Live, Online Business English training
- Mastering Platform, college level homework assessment system
[edit] Competitors
Pearson Education operates globally and has a range of competitors, both worldwide and in each country in which it operates. In the United States, its main K-12 competitors include Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a subsidiary of EMPG; and McGraw Hill Education, a division of the McGraw Hill Companies, Inc. International competitors include Macmillan Education, a division of Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH; and the Houghton affiliate EMPGI.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Contact Us". http://www.pearsoned.com/pe/index.htm. Retrieved January 2009.
- ^ "New Agreement Makes eTextbooks Available to Students". http://www.coursesmart.com/aboutus?aboutview=media#pressedmap.
- ^ "Review of Mymathlab Student Access Kit (Standalone) / Edition 4". Barnes&Noble.com. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Mymathlab-Student-Stand-Alone-Access-Kit/Addison-Wesley/e/9780321199911. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
[edit] External links
- Pearson Education US
- Pearson Education India
- Pearson School Systems
- Heinemann UK
- Peachpit Press
- Wharton School Publishing
- CourseSmart
- Gazelle Javan
- Pearson Education awards places on Student Advisory Board
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