By Rob Kadel, Ph.D. Academic Training & Consulting Manager Pearson eCollege One of the great flexibilities in Pearson LearningStudio is the HTML editor. If you haven’t used it before, don’t worry! You can create content pages that look amazingly complex, but really require only a line or two of simple HTML code. One of these...

By Dr. Jeff Borden, Sr. Director of Teaching & Learning, Pearson eCollege Last week a colleague sent me an editorial from the LA Times in which a professor of Engineering attacked online education. (I’m not posting a link here as I don’t want page hits to let him believe that his piece was valuable.) His...

By Jennifer Golightly, Ph.D., Academic Trainer & Consultant, Pearson eCollege Whether at a for-profit or traditional university, most online teaching is done by adjunct or junior-level faculty. Involving senior-level faculty, getting them interested in teaching online, has (generally speaking) been a challenge for a variety of reasons. However, it seems that increasingly institutions are asking...

Social learning is learning mixed with fun. “Fun? Is that allowed in class when you’re an adult?” you may ask. Actually, there’s no rule stating that fun and learning are necessarily separate processes, even with adults. In fact, there may be evidence to support the contrary. Think back to your most memorable learning experiences. Were...

Education and technology are inextricably connected, and as such, it is with great sadness and respect that we at Pearson pay tribute to the man who made a “dent in the universe” in so many ways—Steve Jobs. It is nearly impossible to find an area of modern life that hasn’t in some way been touched...