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Determined to drive improvements in student achievement and student retention, Pearson Education is partnering with institutions to develop superior, discipline-specific, interactive, online resources.

Our research has shown that online resources, when created to meet the needs of students and instructors, make teaching and learning more effective.

When educators require and integrate these products into their course, they and their students experience the highest success rates and return on investment.

With that goal in mind, Pearson Education has created a broad portfolio of over 80 robust and accessible online products. Branded as the MyLab and Mastering programs, these online resources not only deliver traditional textbook content; they offer outcomes based on selfassessment, personalized study paths, customized teaching resources, and powerful results reporting.

   

Within each platform dedicated to a specific topic instructors may choose their textbook among many available, create their courses, assign tasks to students, assess their progress and create student evaluation reports.

• One Place for All of Your Courses.

  Users of the MyLab / Mastering can register, create, and access all of their courses from one convenient online location.

• A Simplified User Interface

  This new interface allows for quick and easy access to:

  • Assignments
  • Study Plans
  • eText
  • Gradebook, Results and Reports
• Additional options for course customization, such as modification to the course menu
• New Communication Tools

  The following new communication tools can be used to foster collaboration, class participation, and group work:

  • Email: Instructors can send emails to their entire class, to individual students or to instructors who has access to their course
  • Discussion Board: The discussion board provides students with a space to respond and react to the discussions you create. These posts can also be separated out into specific topics where students can share their opinions/answers and respond to their fellow classmates’ posts
  • Chat/ ClassLive: ClassLive is an interactive chat tool that allows instructors and students to communicate in real time. ClassLive can be used with a group of students or one-on-one to share images or PowerPoint presentations, draw or write objects on a whiteboard, or send and received graphed or plotted equations. ClassLive also has additional classroom management tools, including polling and hand-raising
  • Enhanced eText. Available within the online course materials and offline via an iPad app, the enhanced eText allows instructors and students to highlight, bookmark, take notes, and share with one another

   

MyLab gives students the opportunity to test themselves on key concepts and skills, track their own progress through the course, and access personalized Study Plan activities.

The customized Study Plan - with complete remediation activities - is generated based on students’ results of a pretest. Study Plans tag incorrect questions from the pretest to the appropriate textbook learning objective, helping students focus on the topics they need help with.

Personalized Study Plan activities may include:

• flash cards,
• eBook reading assignments,
• video cases.

After students complete the remediation activities, they take a posttest to see the concepts they’ve mastered or the areas where they may need extra help.

MyLab then reports the Study Plan results to the instructor. Based on these reports, the instructor can adapt course material to suit the needs of individual students or the entire class.

   

• Economics:
  • Accounting
  • Business
  • Business Communication
  • Economy
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Marketing
• Exact Sciences:
  • Automotive Technology
  • Computer Science
  • Electricity
  • Engineering
  • IT
  • Logic
  • Mathematics
  • Technical Communication
• Law
• Medicine
• Social Sciences:
  • Anthropology
  • Arts
  • Communication
  • Psychology
  • Philosophy
  • Political Sciences

And many others!

    To create a course, sign in on the MyLab / Mastering home page, and follow these steps:

1. Under MyLab / Mastering New Design, click Create Your New Course.
2. To create your course, do one of the following:
   • Select Search Course Materials and enter the author, title, or ISBN of the content you want.
   • Select Browse by Discipline. Select the discipline, and then select the publisher or leave All Publishers selected.
   • Select Copy a Course if you will be creating your first course from a colleague’s course template. You will need your colleague’s course ID.
3. Click Go.
4. Find the item you want and click Select Course Materials.

   Note: The course catalog can include multiple items based on the same textbook. These items contain different content options for that textbook. Select the item with the content you want for your course.

5. Enter your course name and a description in the Enter Course Information fields.
6. Set Course Enrollment Dates to indicate the first and last day students can enroll in your course.

   Note: You might want to set the enrollment end date no further than 17 days from the enrollment start date to ensure students using temporary access do not accidentally enroll in your course multiple times.

7. Set Course Duration to indicate the first and last day students can access your course.

   Note: You might want to set the course end date a little further out than the scheduled course end date if you want students to be able to continue accessing the course. The maximum end date is 15 months from the course creation date.

8. Click Create Course Now.

   The confirmation page displays the course ID for your new course. Creating the course might take between one hour and one business day.

   Note: Do not distribute the course ID to students until you receive confirmation that the course is ready and available for use.

9. Click Back to your Courses page to access your courses list.

   The new course displays with a clock icon to indicate that your course is not yet created. This icon will disappear when the course has been created and is available for use.

    Learn more about the program and how to incorporate it into your course with our tours and trainings - contact us, request a free trial access or enlist for a free training!