Cengage Learning is a major American educational content and technology company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, formed in 2007 from the educational publishing operations of Thomson Learning. Cengage is one of the largest higher-education and secondary-education textbook publishers in North America. Its imprints and backlist absorbed the former Harcourt Brace College Publishers, Wadsworth, Heinle, Course Technology, Gale, and other working academic-publishing brands.