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Making learning count: The path to trust, mobility, and opportunity
Digital & Online Learning

Making learning count: The path to trust, mobility, and opportunity

As learning data fragments across systems, trust breaks down between education and work. In this blog, Pearson CTO Dave Treat explores why portable, verified skills matter—and how learner controlled digital wallets and open standards can restore confidence, support mobility, and turn learning into opportunity.
Art Valentine
Workforce & Skills

What we need to prove as work becomes more AI-Enabled

How assessment and verification strengthen trust

As AI reshapes how work gets done, trust depends on what organizations can prove. In this blog, Art Valentine, Pearson's President of Assessment and Qualifications, explores why traditional credentials are no longer enough, how the “visibility gap” undermines confidence, and why continuous, work based evidence of skills is essential in an AI enabled world.
Never too late to invest in yourself: Jennifer’s GED story
My Life in Learning
Never too late to invest in yourself: Jennifer’s GED story
At age 39, Jennifer from Florida accomplished something she once thought was out of reach — earning her GED diploma. As she prepares to enroll in nursing college, her story is proof that alternative education pathways are critical to bridging the learner to earner gap, and that it's never too late to invest in yourself.
Asking to Learn: How student AI queries are shaping smarter learning tools
Artificial Intelligence
Asking to Learn: How student AI queries are shaping smarter learning tools
We analysed thousands of questions students asked Pearson’s AI Study Tool. The results helped us create "Go Deeper," a new feature that suggests follow-up questions to encourage students to build their critical thinking skills.
The tools I helped bring to market became the ones my family needed
My Life in Learning
The tools I helped bring to market became the ones my family needed
On June 17, global autism experts, researchers, educators and families in the autism community will gather at Pearson’s Virtual Autism Summit. For Clay Richey, who leads product development for Pearson Clinical Assessment, the event holds special meaning.
Top 5 trends in the rise of student AI usage
Artificial Intelligence
Top 5 trends in the rise of student AI usage
Pearson has surveyed US college students since Fall 2023 on their perceptions and usage of generative AI tools. These are the top five trends from our research with Morning Consult on how students’ attitudes toward AI have evolved over time and how they’re using these tools in their academic lives.
Reclaiming time: How AI empowers teachers to focus on what matters most
Artificial Intelligence
Reclaiming time: How AI empowers teachers to focus on what matters most
Hear how Pearson's AI Instructor Tool for Teachers is helping busy Connections Academy teachers create assessments quickly and efficiently, freeing them up to spend more quality time with their students. 
The new path to CTO: When every job is a tech job
My Life in Learning
The new path to CTO: When every job is a tech job
The CTO role is no longer limited to those with computer science degrees or engineering backgrounds. Pearson CTO Dave Treat shares why today’s most effective CTOs come from all backgrounds—and what it truly takes to lead in today’s tech-driven world.
Reimagining Lifelong Learning: AI, Personalisation, and Accessibility
Workforce & Skills
Reimagining Lifelong Learning: AI, Personalisation, and Accessibility
Pearson’s President of Enterprise Learning and Skills, Vishaal Gupta, highlights the importance of lifelong learning amid rapid change. Through our partnership with AWS, we’re making learning more effective, accessible, and personalized, and helping to bridge the critical skills gap.
Nursing embracing the new technology normal with AI
Artificial Intelligence
Nursing embracing the new technology normal with AI
The US is in the throes of a simultaneous shortage of nurses and nurse educators. What are nursing students and instructors doing to bridge the gap? Skillfully using generative AI, of course.
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Language Learning
The Science Behind Smart Lesson Generator
What does it take to build an AI-powered tool teachers can truly trust? As Pearson introduces Smart Lesson Generator, an AI-powered tool that creates curriculum-aligned English language lesson materials in seconds, we look at the science behind the product.