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The National Radio Institute-McGraw Hill Continuing Education Center was a private, postsecondary, for-profit correspondence school based in Washington, D.C., from 1914 to 2002. The school originally trained students to become radio operators and technicians.
Simon Allen, McGraw-Hill CEO, joined The Final Round to discuss the impact COVID-19 has had on education and how the company is helping students adjust to virtual learning.
Digital life and technology, Education and training, Health, Environment and sustainable development, Physics and Chemistry, IT and programming, Political science and international relations, Law, Economy and management, Life Sciences Free access to courses, free and paid certification [1] French, English, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese Non-profit 2013
In November 2016, Cengage Learning rebranded as simply Cengage. [citation needed] In May 2019, Cengage announced its potential merger with another major publisher, McGraw-Hill Education, thereby creating a duopoly with Pearson in the market and would have used McGraw-Hill as the merged corporate name with Michael Hansen as CEO.
McGraw-Hill took full ownership of the venture in 1993. In 2004, The McGraw-Hill Companies sold its children's publishing unit to School Specialty. [15] In 2007, The McGraw-Hill Companies launched an online student study network, GradeGuru.com. This offering gave McGraw-Hill an opportunity to connect directly with its end users, the students.
LinkedIn Learning was founded as Lynda.com in 1995 in Ojai, California, as online support for the books and classes of Lynda Weinman, a special effects animator and multimedia professor who founded a digital arts school with her husband, artist Bruce Heavin. [4] In 2002, the company began offering courses online. [5]
Distance education courses can be taken online or by correspondence, within a semester schedule or in self-paced format. Through Digital and Lifelong Learning, both undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students have access to most courses offered by UNC-Chapel Hill without needing to be admitted as full-time students.
Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc. The subsidiary was formed in 1998, when Pearson plc acquired Simon & Schuster 's educational business and combined it with Pearson's existing education company Addison-Wesley Longman . [ 1 ]