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robust functionality, features, and
services for successful, scalable
online programs.
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Expanding Possibilities
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 A
ff
airs,
Rutgers University
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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.
“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
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 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.
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 O
ff
ering
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.
Customer Success: Pearson LearningStudio Scales Up Rutgers
University Online O
ff
erings
According to Dr. Richard Novak, Associate Vice President
for Continuous Education and Distance Learning and
Director of Special Projects for Academic A
ff
airs 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.
“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
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
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.
The Challenge: Falling Student
Success Rates and Di
ffi
cult
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 self-discipline 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.
Customer Success: Iowa Community College Online Consortium
Improves Student Outcomes with Pearson LearningStudio
“The Pearson LearningStudio Enterprise Reporting
Suite has evolved into an e
ffi
cient 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
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).
“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
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.
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.
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.
Providing Continuous Support
Service Title
Client Focus Purpose
Account
Executive Institutional Helps institutions achieve their financialand organizational goals, identifies opportunities for online learning program growth, and offers strategic guidance to improve educational program quality
Client Services
Consultant Faculty andAdministrator Facilitates day-to-day operational aspectsof 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 andStudent Oensures industry-leading online solutionsffers technical issue resolution and for faculty and students
“Partnering with Pearson was the best choice for us,
as we did not find another company in this sector
that o
ff
ered 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 a
ff
ordability 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
“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 E
ffi
cacy
and Inevitability of Online Learning in
Higher Education”
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
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.
The Need for Mobility
Students, both traditional and non-traditional, 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.
Pearson LearningStudio Mobile Solution
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.
How It Works
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.
