By David F. Carr, InformationWeek
Pearson will offer more than 400,000 college students taking first-year courses in the sciences and business this fall access to online homework and tutorial software powered by Knewton’s adaptive learning data service, according to the publisher. Pearson and Knewton have been working together since late 2011, and in fall 2012 they introduced their joint product for math, economics, reading and writing. Now, they have expanded into college biology, anatomy/physiology, chemistry, physics, finance and accounting. For each of the new subjects, the focus is on the introductory college course that students must pass if they are serious about a subject; for example, the biology class is specifically for biology majors, including pre-med students, said Paul Corey, president of Pearson Higher Education’s science, business and technology unit.
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