- Collaboration will enhance learning for millions of people
through cloud and AI tools that personalize education and offer
real-time insights
- Pearson to expand its use of AWS cloud infrastructure and AI
capabilities with Amazon Bedrock to further optimize and scale its
learning products and services, especially in higher education
- Amazon and AWS to extend collaboration with Pearson VUE to
scale cloud training and credentialing to help organizations boost
productivity and innovate faster
LONDON, Feb. 28,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson (FTSE:
PSON.L), the world's lifelong learning company, and Amazon Web
Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN),
today announced the expansion of their long-standing collaboration
to accelerate the delivery of AI-powered learning for millions of
people around the world and enhance the learner experience for
Pearson's products and services.
"This partnership brings together two
respected and leading companies in the fields of technology and
learning."
As AI transforms education and the world of work, improving
people's ability to learn is vital for an adaptive workforce primed
for continual upskilling, career pivots, and personal career
fulfillment. Recent Pearson research finds that inefficient career
transitions and learning gaps are costing the U.S. economy
$1.1 trillion annually. Through this
collaboration, AWS, the world's most comprehensive and broadly
adopted cloud, and Pearson will advance the adoption of
technology-driven education, with the objective of making learning
more effective, efficient, and accessible.
Building on their 13-year collaboration, AWS will continue
to serve as a Pearson strategic AI and cloud provider, advancing
infrastructure and AI capabilities designed to enable Pearson to
enhance and scale its products and services, especially in its
higher education footprint. AWS will support Pearson's
initiatives to elevate the learner and educator experience across
its portfolio with personalized learning, real-time insights, and
increased accessibility.
Pearson and AWS will collaborate in several ways:
- Many of Pearson's higher education products, used by student
across international and U.S. higher education institutions, are
built on AWS. Pearson will increase its use of AWS's highly
performant cloud infrastructure and Amazon Bedrock to improve the
learning experience across higher education, virtual schools, and
English-language learning products. By using Amazon Bedrock with
Pearson expertise and data sets, this collaboration aims to enhance
and expand Pearson's courseware and content experience; provide
educators with AI-powered lesson generation, assessments and
insights; and enable faster, more visually rich content
generation.
- AWS and Amazon will extend their collaboration with Pearson to
support workforce skilling efforts. Currently, Amazon and AWS
benefit from GEDWorks, an employer-sponsored program that helps
individuals earn their GED credential, and Credly by Pearson, the
company's digital credential platform.
- AWS will continue its collaboration with Pearson VUE, which
delivers AWS certifications for hundreds of thousands of cloud
technology professionals annually.
- AWS and Amazon will continue to expand their enterprise
learning relationship with Pearson over the life of the
agreement.
- AWS and Pearson will jointly innovate on additional
transformative learning solutions, with the goal of enhancing
experiences and outcomes for learners in the areas of clinical and
professional assessments, enterprise learning, and English Language
Learning.
Pearson CEO Omar Abbosh
said, "As technology transforms the way we learn, improving
people's ability to learn is vital for an adaptive workforce. With
the help of AWS, Pearson will be able to get there faster, scale
personalized learning, and create more access to AI tools for
learners and educators. This partnership brings together two
respected and leading companies in the fields of technology and
learning. Together, we can reach many more learners and provide
them with the tools they need to succeed and realise the life they
imagine for themselves."
"We're excited to expand our long-standing collaboration with
Pearson to unlock the power of cloud and AI for learners around the
world," said Matt Garman,
CEO at AWS. "Together with Pearson, we will leverage the global
scale and AI capabilities of AWS to enable innovative new learning
experiences that are personalized and accessible for all."
This collaboration is yet another step towards fulfilling
Pearson's commitment to accelerate the use of AI across its
products and sharpen its focus on serving the enterprise learning
market. Together, AWS and Pearson will help empower people and
organizations to develop future-ready skills and unlock potential
in a rapidly evolving world.
About Pearson
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to
help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We
believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal
breakthrough. That's why our c. 18,000 Pearson employees are
committed to creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences
designed for real-life impact. We are the world's lifelong learning
company, serving customers in nearly 200 countries with digital
content, assessments, qualifications, and data. For us, learning
isn't just what we do. It's who we are. Visit us at
pearsonplc.com.
About Amazon Web Services
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world's most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually
expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it
now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage,
databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial
intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security,
hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 114 Availability Zones within 36 geographic
regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and
four more AWS Regions in New
Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia, Taiwan, and the AWS
European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the
fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading
government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become
more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than
competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational
excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth's
Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth's Best Employer, and Earth's
Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping,
personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS,
Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire
TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios,
and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon.
For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow
@AmazonNews.
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