Pearson And Aws Announce Collaboration To Unlock Ai-powered Personalized Learning For Millions Of People Globally

Pearson FTSE: PSON.L, the worlds 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 Pearsons products and services.

As AI transforms education and the world of work, improving peoples 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 worlds 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 Pearsons 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 Pearsons higher education products, used by student across international and U.S. higher education institutions, are built on AWS. Pearson will increase its use of AWSs 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 Pearsons 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 companys 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.