As people, we are all products of the environment. Pearson , a British multi-national conglomerate, is without doubt one of the largest private companies maneuvering for U.S. training dollars. Fallon says that if Pearson’s applications aren’t having the specified end result—if, say, English-language enhancements in its Chinese colleges don’t meet the standards—the company will abandon them.

Revel presents an inexpensive, seamless blend of writer-created digital text, media, and evaluation based mostly on studying science. The Pearson integration into my college’s learning management system is horrid and offers a very small window view for the e-textual content.

Of their view, Pearson is bent on controlling each element of the process, from teacher skills to curriculums to the assessme...