More investment in new technologies and customer solutions leads to the acquisition of Aplia-an education company dedicated to improving learning outcomes by increasing student effort and engagement. Seeing opportunity for millions of adults to upskill and reskill, Thomson acquires Education to Go (now ed2go), a provider of online adult education courses. We begin to feel the force of demand for alternate channels of distribution from online retailers and resellers, leading to price resistance from consumers and the rise of customization. Beginning at the turn of the 21st century, a company restructuring results in the creation of Thomson Learning. Through this period, we brought new urgency in our mission to make education more accessible to everyone. It’s also a chapter in which we faced existential threats and uncertainty and learned new resilience. It’s in this era that we developed our DNA in technology and digital innovation. Our next chapter is about enabling a new generation of learners with a new generation of technology. This chapter of the Cengage story closes as the company begins to invest in digital throughout this time, the various constituent businesses began to adapt to the rise of courseware, internet accessibility, IT systems and the introduction of electronic books and readers.Ĭrossing the Digital Frontier 2000 - 2007 Over the next decade, Thomson acquired South-Western Publishing, Gale, Delmar (adding Milady to our portfolio), Heinle, Brooks/Cole, Course Technology and other companies.
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The initial portfolio of companies started to come together in 1979 when Thomson Corporation purchased Wadsworth Publishing from Prentice-Hall, providing Thomson its first entry into college and professional textbooks. South-Western Publishing, one of the original companies that contributed to what is now Cengage Group, started in 1903 when a bookkeeping teacher at a local business college decided he could write a better text for his students. The roots of Cengage Group can be traced back more than one hundred years. And just like today, we believed in better-by challenging standard practices and ineffective conventions. Just as we do today, we promised to change our industry. We evolved out of newspaper, textbook and media companies, fully arriving on the scene as a family of academic publishers in the late 1970s/early 80s. The first chapter for Cengage Group started when we were known by the name International Thomson Publishing.
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