Created by Knewton and Column Five Media College preparedness is a hot topic today among teachers and education administrators. Its no wonder: one-third of today’s college students require remediation; of those students, about half will never receive a college degree. These statistics have serious ramifications for the future: students’ college and career readiness is an...

Sometimes a small deviation from normal can be a very helpful one. One of the things that I like most about Pearson LearningStudio is that many of the course tools do not have to be locked into a single purpose, but can be repurposed to fit many different pedagogical situations. I often see course designs...

By Rob Kadel, Ph.D. Academic Training & Consulting Pearson eCollege We hear a lot in the news media, research literature, and at conferences about the power and the value of social learning. Social learning in online courses is going to change the world! That is hyperbole, of course, but the excitement remains among online educators...

This week, USA Today published an article and mentioned our 2011 research paper “Teaching, Learning and Sharing: How Today’s Higher Education Faculty Use Social Media”. The article – “Teachers Embrace Social Media in Class” – describes the divide in college faculty perspectives on social media. One side sees social media as a distraction negatively impacting...

Image via Wikipedia I love my ZITE app. I tell everyone about it. It’s an aggregator of content that produces a magazine suited perfectly to me. My ZITE app is set up to send me articles about eLearning, the future of education, and education policy, in addition to the NFL, NBA, and all things disc...