Pearson and AWS Expand Collaboration to Enhance AI-Powered Learning for Millions

Pearson and AWS Expand Collaboration to Enhance AI-Powered Learning for Millions

(IN BRIEF) Pearson has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance AI-powered learning experiences for millions of learners globally. This extended partnership focuses on using AWS’s cloud and AI technologies, including Amazon Bedrock, to improve personalized learning, increase accessibility, and provide real-time insights, particularly in higher education. The collaboration also supports workforce skilling programs, such as GEDWorks and Pearson’s digital credential platform, Credly. Through this initiative, Pearson aims to accelerate the use of AI in education and empower learners and organizations to develop future-ready skills in a rapidly evolving world.

(PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 28-Feb-2025 — /EuropaWire/ — Pearson, the world’s leading lifelong learning company, has announced the expansion of its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to leverage cloud and AI technologies for optimizing its learning products and services. This collaboration, which builds on their 13-year relationship, will focus on enhancing the learner experience, particularly in higher education, by offering personalized learning, real-time insights, and improved accessibility through AWS’s cloud infrastructure and AI capabilities, including Amazon Bedrock.

The new collaboration comes at a time when AI is revolutionizing education and workforce development. According to recent research from Pearson, inefficient career transitions and learning gaps cost the U.S. economy $1.1 trillion annually, highlighting the urgent need for technology-driven education. By utilizing AWS’s powerful cloud infrastructure and AI tools, Pearson aims to provide scalable, AI-powered learning experiences that can improve educational outcomes and enhance career development opportunities.

With AWS as its strategic AI and cloud partner, Pearson plans to expand its use of AWS services, particularly Amazon Bedrock, to enhance courseware and content offerings for higher education, virtual schools, and English language learning. The collaboration will also include AI-powered tools for educators, such as lesson generation and assessment capabilities, designed to support and personalize learning at a larger scale.

AWS and Pearson will also continue to extend their work in workforce skilling efforts. The partnership will build on existing programs like GEDWorks, which helps individuals earn their GED, and Pearson’s digital credential platform, Credly. AWS will further support Pearson VUE’s cloud certification programs, serving hundreds of thousands of cloud technology professionals worldwide.

Omar Abbosh, CEO of Pearson, said, “Improving the ability to learn is essential for an adaptive workforce, and this partnership with AWS allows us to accelerate personalized learning and make AI tools more accessible to educators and learners. Together, we can empower more people and help them realize the life they imagine for themselves.”

Matt Garman, CEO of AWS, added, “We are thrilled to deepen our collaboration with Pearson, leveraging AWS’s global scale and AI capabilities to create personalized and accessible learning experiences for people around the world.”

The collaboration reflects Pearson’s ongoing commitment to integrating AI into its products and expanding its focus on enterprise learning. Together, AWS and Pearson will help individuals and organizations develop the future-ready skills needed to succeed in an ever-changing 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 https://www.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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