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Expanding Possibilities
With Pearson LearningStudio
Pearson LearningStudio delivers
robust functionality, features, and
services for successful, scalable
online programs.
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Pearson LearningStudio helped take Rutgers’ online
program – RutgersOnline – to a whole new level.
RutgersOnline now offers fully-online credit courses
and has more than tripled its enrollment in one
year. Since its implementation, both faculty and
students have affirmed online learning as a highly
impactful method to educate and learn, and
LearningStudio has provided all the scalability we
need to accommodate our rapid growth.
– Dr. Richard Novak
”
Associate Vice President for Continuous Education and Distance
Learning and Director of Special Projects for Academic Affairs,
Rutgers University
We’re in the business
of expanding minds
to expand possibilities.
Everyday, millions of institutions and students
worldwide turn to Pearson LearningStudio.
Backed by the extensive support of Pearson –
a leading education technology expert – Pearson
LearningStudio’s proven platform, services, and
support are enabling the long-term growth and
evolution of personalized online learning
environments in higher education worldwide.
The potential of online education is limitless. But expanding its
impact means removing barriers. With the rapid development of
interactive, social and mobile technologies, institutions can offer
engaging, high-touch experiences to more students around the
world. But the possibilities go beyond access, to a promise of
more individualized achievement and greater outcomes.
To take full advantage of this wave of opportunity, institutions
need visionary partners with deep experience and scalable,
reliable, cutting-edge technology. We understand that every
institution has unique requirements for their infrastructure,
operations, processes, and resources. Supported by experienced
service consultants, we are committed to building customized
solutions to fit each institution’s needs and objectives.
Built upon our in-depth knowledge of education, our innovative
technologies, and our best-in-class data analytics, Pearson
LearningStudio is transforming the experience of online learning.
Pearson LearningStudio enables truly personalized learning
experiences that empower each student to learn the way they
learn best – when, where, and how they want.
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Powered
to Scale
Built upon deep education experience, innovative
technologies, and best-in-class data analytics, Pearson
LearningStudio is expanding possibilities in online
learning. With a comprehensive, flexible, and fully
supported online learning environment, students are
empowered to learn the way they learn best—when,
where, and how they want.
With a fully-hosted, always-on platform, Pearson LearningStudio
integrates innovative tools, analytics and functionality plus the
reliability and scalability required for mission-critical services—
ultimately ensuring student success, and helping institutions realize
long-term growth.
Proven Track Record
With over 45 million usage minutes a day and more than 9 million
active users, Pearson LearningStudio possesses unparalleled
expertise in serving large-scale online learning programs.
Our breadth and depth of experience translates into a proven
track record that is simply unmatched.
Fully-Hosted SaaS Model
“Pearson gave us a fully-hosted
solution that helped us launch a high
volume of online degree programs
quickly, a 24/7 help desk and the
ability to store and back up our course
content.”
– Bill Angrove
Associate Vice President, Sam Houston
State University Online
Pearson LearningStudio proudly sets the industry standard for
security and reliability. With our hosted, always-on Software as a
Service (SaaS) platform, our customers never worry about
software maintenance, uptime, scalability, security, disaster
recovery, or business continuity issues.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Realize the savings inherent in cloud-based platforms. Pearson
LearningStudio eliminates the costs – and hassles – associated
with hardware installations, software licensing upgrades, system
management, and storage upgrades. Free your valuable IT
resources to concentrate on more important tasks.
Instant Scalability
We understand that your online programs are only as effective as
the technology they’re built upon. Our Software as a Service
(SaaS) model scales instantly to accommodate rapidly growing
needs as your program expands.
24/7 Technical Support
We supply our customers with all the technical support required
to power successful online learning environments. With
responsive 24/7/365 support, instructors and students can spend
less time with technical hassles and more time achieving success.
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Customer Success: Pearson LearningStudio Scales Up Rutgers
University Online Offerings
The Challenge: A Problem
of Growth
Rutgers University, a leading national public
research university with over 54,600
students, began its first online program in
1999. Based on the early success of this
fledgling program, it was apparent that
online learning had tremendous growth
potential and needed to be taken to the
next level. Rutgers decided to develop a
new, university-wide online program.
Given its large enrollment, Rutgers needed
a solution that could provide unmatched
reliability and scalability, as well as robust
service and support for its faculty and
students. After an exhaustive review
process, the Rutgers team chose Pearson
LearningStudio because it best addressed
their specific criteria for an effective
learning management system.
The Solution: A Flexible,
Intuitive Offering
Since adopting Pearson LearningStudio,
RutgersOnline has been able to grow
seamlessly alongside the increasing demand
for higher enrollment and now offers 150
different credit courses. The Pearson
platform provides faculty with an intuitive
means of building and delivering customized
courses that align with their unique
pedagogies. Moreover, in recent surveys by
Rutgers, data revealed a high compliance
rate for end of course evaluations and high
overall student satisfaction. Additionally,
faculty and students are able to rest assured
knowing they have the full technical support
of Pearson behind their online programs.
According to Dr. Richard Novak, Associate Vice President
for Continuous Education and Distance Learning and
Director of Special Projects for Academic Affairs at Rutgers,
the four largest benefits the university has seen since
implementing Pearson LearningStudio are:
Continuous (24/7) technical support helpdesk
for students
This enables Rutgers students to work whenever they choose and
know that support is always available.
Reliability
With the Pearson LearningStudio platform, there is virtually no
unplanned downtime.
Constant evolution
Improvements are continuously made to the platform, including
integration with other products.
Scalability
Pearson LearningStudio gives Rutgers the ability to continuously
grow its online programs without having to worry about scaling the
architecture or making additional technology investments in order
to keep pace with the demand for online course offerings.
The Result: Scaled for Success
Overall, Pearson LearningStudio helped take Rutgers’ online program – RutgersOnline –
to a whole new level. RutgersOnline now offers 150 fully online credit courses and has
more than doubled its enrollment in less than a year. Since its implementation, both
faculty and students have affirmed online learning as a highly impactful method to
educate and learn.
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Actionable
Insights
Built upon deep education experience, innovative
technologies, and best-in-class data analytics, Pearson
LearningStudio is expanding possibilities in online
learning. With a comprehensive, flexible, and fully
supported online learning environment, students are
empowered to learn the way they learn best – when,
where, and how they want.
Everything we do at Pearson leverages insights gained from
decades of data analytics – data from students, educators,
administrators, and institutions – to inform smarter content and
smarter technologies.
Pearson LearningStudio combines our greatest strengths together
in one platform, providing institutions with data-driven insights that
enhance everything from curriculum development to educator
effectiveness, student retention and outcomes. Pearson
LearningStudio supports a rich online learning infrastructure,
personalized experiences, and a robust set of analytical tools that
continually fosters individual success.
Easy-to-Use Enterprise Reporting
“When it comes to online learning,
there is a direct correlation between
quality services and student success.
Online learning is very demanding…
the more support students receive, the
better their learning outcomes and
overall experience will be.”
– Philip Regier
Executive Vice Provost and Dean,
Arizona State University Online
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We all understand the critical role analytics play in driving student
success – but to become actionable, data needs to be synthesized,
interpreted, and presented in digestible reports. We offer a
variety of assessment and analytic tools to help improve student
retention, identify at-risk students, and manage learning outcomes.
Simplified Accreditation Process
Managing the accreditation process becomes exponentially more
complex in the online learning environment. Only Pearson
LearningStudio integrates multiple workflows to help educators
efficiently and accurately map grades, standards, and outcomes
by individual students. Not only does the process become a
streamlined, real-time reporting effort, it also provides increased
accuracy and objectivity to improve outcomes.
Expansive Data Set
Serving over 9 million active users, Pearson LearningStudio offers
the most extensive online learning data available. Coupled with
powerful analytics tools, our customers can design more effective
courses, train instructors to create more successful learning
environments, and drive students to behaviors that increase
achievement.
Customer Success: Iowa Community College Online Consortium
Improves Student Outcomes with Pearson LearningStudio
The Challenge: Falling Student
Success Rates and Difficult
Reporting
Education programs are continually
striving for greater student success rates.
The Iowa Community College Online
Consortium (ICCOC) leveraged Pearson
LearningStudio’s Enterprise Reporting
Suite to develop a reporting strategy to
proactively identify at-risk students before
they fail or drop out and guide them toward
more successful learning paths.
Prior to Pearson’s involvement, 40 percent
of ICCOC students were new to online
learning and unfamiliar with the selfdiscipline needed to perform well in this
environment. Just 77 percent of at-risk
students completed their courses, and only
57 percent got a “C” or higher. The ICCOC
needed to improve the speed and accuracy
at which it identified at-risk online students
in order to help them succeed.
The Solution: Utilize Pearson
LearningStudio to Put
Students Back On Track
Pearson LearningStudio Enterprise
Reporting Suite offered the ICCOC
centrally located, web-based tools that
provided enterprise-wide visibility of
student activity and performance. With a
more efficient data trending and reporting
method, the ICCOC identified at-risk
students earlier, allowing educators to
intervene in time to put students back on
track to achieving their academic goals.
For example, Pearson LearningStudio’s
Student Activity Report displayed the time
individual students were spending within a
specific course or across the program’s
entire offering – in weekly snapshots or
over a considerable period of time. Inactive
students, or those who hadn’t logged into
their courses, were labeled at risk for failure.
Enterprise Reporting also provided detailed
insights into specific student activity.
These include threaded discussion postings,
and submissions to Dropbox to turn in
assignments.
The Result: ICCOC Increases Student Success
The ICCOC was able to increase the student success rate for at-risk students by nine
percent over a two-year period. Students were considered “successful” if they
completed an online course with a “C” or higher. At the same time, at-risk students’
course completion rates increased from 77 percent to 82 percent. After four years,
at-risk students’ course completion reached 85 percent, and at-risk student success
reached 68 percent (up from 62 percent the previous year).
“The Pearson LearningStudio Enterprise Reporting
Suite has evolved into an efficient tool which allows
us to identify, track and target specific areas for
improvement. We can now proactively target our
communication, professional development and
operational planning where they have the greatest
potential for improving student success.”
– Steve Rheinschmidt
Director of the ICCOC
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Trusted
Partner
Built upon deep education experience, innovative
technologies, and best-in-class data analytics, Pearson
LearningStudio is expanding possibilities in online
learning. With a comprehensive, flexible, and fully
supported online learning environment, students are
empowered to learn the way they learn best—when,
where, and how they want.
We understand that creating or extending an online learning
program presents huge opportunities for growth but requires
significant resources. To ensure a seamless, easy transition for
institutions and faculty, Pearson LearningStudio is backed by an
industry-leading commitment to service and support. We are
dedicated to being easily accessible and always accountable.
Dedicated Service Consultants
To help institutions connect the dots from curriculum design
to student experience to student achievement, Pearson
LearningStudio provides every customer with a dedicated,
knowledgeable service consultant. More than a partner,
consultants become an extension of your team, ensuring
successful program implementation and management.
“I’ve never had a partner who
possessed the strength of character,
the level of honesty, the unexpected
straightforwardness, and the amount
of cooperation that my Pearson
representative and project leader have.
I trust them implicitly.”
– James H. Jones, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Distance and Continuing
EducationCharleston Southern University
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Easy Integration & Extension
Extend the impact of your online learning program with a broad
portfolio of integrated content and technologies – those created
by Pearson as well as those developed by reputable industry
partners. Our platform is interoperable and designed to integrate
third-party content and technologies so customers enjoy more
choice, more customization, and less restriction.
Online Curriculum Specialists
Using proven best practices for online learning, our Curriculum
Specialists work with you to ensure the delivery of high-quality
course content. From end-to-end course design and creation to
conversion of existing course content, we offer a full range of
design and development services that can be tailored to meet the
needs of your institution.
Providing Continuous Support
To ensure the continued growth of
online enrollment, Pearson partners with
institutions to power successful online
programs.
Pearson provides the most comprehensive
and expert academic support services
available. We provide our customers with
a sophisticated set of tools and a supportive
staff of professionals to create and sustain
reliable and personalized learning
environments. These learning environments
measure achievement andprovide a
constructive and collaborative space for
faculty and students, as well as valuable
insight for course, program, and institutional
administrators.
The services listed below facilitate the
continued success of administrative,
program, and institutional strategies.
Service Title
Client Focus Purpose
Account
Executive
Institutional
Helps institutions achieve their financial
and organizational goals, identifies
opportunities for online learning program
growth, and offers strategic guidance to
improve educational program quality
Client Services
Consultant
Faculty and
Administrator
Facilitates day-to-day operational aspects
of delivering online learning programs and
serves as an institution’s personal
advocate, advisor, and administrator at
Pearson to ensure successful program
implementation and execution
Academic
Training &
Consulting
Faculty
Provides a single point of academic and
faculty training contact and helps
instructors plan, build, and maintain rich,
interactive courses
24/7/365
Help Desk
Faculty and
Student
Offers technical issue resolution and
ensures industry-leading online solutions
for faculty and students
“Partnering with Pearson was the best choice for us,
as we did not find another company in this sector
that offered the amount of comprehensive services
and support necessary to sustain a successful
high-growth, rigorous, and quality online learning
program. Pearson is able to deliver the technology
to help us improve access and affordability for our
students, maximize students’ academic performance,
and better prepare them for the workforce or
attaining a four-year degree.”
– John Larson
President, Ocean County College, NJ
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Social
Learning
Built upon deep education experience, innovative
technologies, and best-in-class data analytics, Pearson
LearningStudio is expanding possibilities in online
learning. With a comprehensive, flexible, and fully
supported online learning environment, students are
empowered to learn the way they learn best – when,
where, and how they want.
Regardless of distance, online education no longer means
learning in isolation. By applying intuitive, engaging technologies
that look and act like today’s most popular mobile and social
applications, Pearson LearningStudio enables students and faculty
to enjoy rich, real-time interaction and collaboration that drive
collective success.
Today’s students and instructors don’t just want social and mobile
features, they expect them, and we’re committed to advancing
what’s possible to improve education.
Contemporary User Interface
“Students who took all or part of
their course online performed better,
on average, than those taking the
same course through traditional,
face-to-face instruction.”
– U.S. Department of Education
Staying the Course report
Pearson White Paper “The Efficacy
and Inevitability of Online Learning in
Higher Education”
In addition to a host of new features, Pearson LearningStudio has
been redesigned with a simple, clean look modeled after popular
social media sites. Our tools feel familiar and enable students and
instructors to intuitively find what they need.
Social Learning Tools
Enhanced collaboration and networking are critical to driving both
retention and success in online learning. Pearson LearningStudio
integrates the latest features students need to engage peers and
instructors: social profiles, avatars, chat, groups, remarks, activity
feed, and fully-integrated Skype functionality for real-time
discussion.
To fully realize the potential of social learning, we are continuously
vetting and adding new functionality. We’re constantly seeking
new ways to process, understand, and leverage the vast amounts
of interactive data we collect to improve online learning.
Customizable Mobile Site
Easy-to-use mobile features extend engagement through social
learning and enable students to continuously connect with
classmates and instructors anytime, anywhere. Through a custom
mobile site that features your institution’s brand, students can
participate in class discussions, access gradebooks, and receive
alerts on new uploads and upcoming deadlines. Built as a mobile
web-based solution, or mSite, our solution is compatible with all
leading smart device operating systems and requires no downloads.
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Pearson LearningStudio Mobile Solution
The Need for Mobility
How It Works
Students, both traditional and nontraditional, use mobile technology
throughout their daily lives to communicate
and connect. Pearson recognizes the
importance of engaging students on their
own terms. Online learners are looking for
an easy-to-use and universally available
mobile solution that increases their
capability for ongoing communications and
collaboration, as well as provides access to
class updates when and where students
want them. Pearson LearningStudio’s mobile
solution encourages this interactivity
between students and faculty, which
improves student engagement and impacts
student success.
As a mobile web-based solution, or mSite, the Pearson LearningStudio mobile solution
requires no downloads or apps, and mSite features are accessible from multiple mobile
operating systems. With no need to download a device-specific application, our mobile
solution is able to accelerate adoption and deployment for all users with no need for
future version upgrades. Unlike other mobile learning products, these capabilities allow
immediate availability of the solution to students.
Each mSite is developed using the custom designs of Pearson’s LearningStudio campuses,
allowing for a look and feel that is fully adapted to fit each institution’s brand.
The Components
This easy-to-use interface will allow students to use their
mobile device to:
View activity feed from all courses
Be notified about discussion responses, grades, and
dropbox submissions
View an upcoming feed from all courses, notifying users
about due dates and start/end dates
Access announcements for each course
Experience full discussion capabilities including
responding to topics and comments, receiving
notification of recent discussion activity, and receiving
notifications when classmates respond to their posts
Access their full gradebook
See who is in their course
Available Services
With more than a dozen years of experience
serving some of the world’s largest online
programs, Pearson LearningStudio provides
software development, access support, and
24/7/365 Help Desk services for all mobile
solution users.
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