![]() While having a long history in the field of higher education language learning, “it’s clear that there are things we need to do newly and differently and in a more engaging fashion that will appeal to students, millennials, as well as more advanced learners,” Stano continued.ĭespite already reaching 200 million users, Duolingo said this partnership expands its reach, particularly at the university level. “And also it helps us make that pivot towards a next generation step.” “It engages them in the out of class practice that is necessary to efficiently acquire that language,” he said in a video alongside Duolingo’s CEO, Luis von Ahn. This partnership will help to enable Pearson to become increasingly present on mobile, and enhance engagement with students, according to Eric Stano, vice president portfolio management at Pearson. ![]() The product will launch in autumn this year, and 125,000 access codes are to be distributed among students in the US and Canada. ![]() ![]() “We hope this partnership will set a new standard for the future of higher education” The partnership will see the launch of new language learning materials designed specifically to complement Pearsons’s existing class curricula.Īvailable in four languages – Spanish (elementary and intermediate), French, German and Italian – the content will work alongside Pearson textbooks but in the bitesized, gamified, mobile style of Duolingo.
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