Google Says Pearson’s New Learning System Is ‘Not a Shared Product’

· The Chronicle of Higher Education ·

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Philadelphia—When Pearson officials talk about their new learning-management system, OpenClass, they like to mention Google. They note that the software is distributed through Google’s App marketplace, and say that it was inspired by Google’s popular e-mail and Web services platform. Pearson drops the company’s name so much that many college officials assume that Google is jointly building the new system, something that officials have long speculated that the search company might one day do.

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Jeffrey R. Young writes Jagged Intelligence, The Chronicle’s biweekly newsletter on AI and higher education, and hosts the Learning Curve podcast.