Cengage Learning, a global education company, has announced the acquisition of Learning Objects, a Washington, D.C.-based education technology company. Learning Objects powers innovative, customised and adaptive online learning programs and courses to higher education institutions through its state-of-the-art learning platform and instructional design services.
With Learning Objects, institutions are able to quickly create both competency-based and traditional online programs and courses integrating publisher content, open educational resources, faculty content and other ed tech vendors' tools.
Learning Objects complements Cengage Learning's existing portfolio of award-winning course solutions and enables the company to take advantage of the momentum toward competency-based learning, adaptive learning and open educational resources. In addition, Cengage Learning will be able to offer instructors and institutions a content-agnostic platform with flexible program-level curriculum development and delivery models and a unified learner experience. Cengage Learning will also be able to serve as a preferred technology partner for other publishers seeking new and innovative content delivery solutions.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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