The Pearson LearningStudio exam builder now features a redesigned interface with several new options for ensuring the security of your exams. In the exam toolbox, you’ll find that the exam setting options have been rearranged for maximum usability: options to hide the exam or create a password are at the top of the toolbox, followed...

Jennifer Golightly, Ph.D. Academic Trainer & Consultant Pearson eCollege Increasing student retention in online courses involves a combination of strategies that can be deployed at both the institutional and the course levels. This article will present a few of these strategies with some research-based analysis of the ways in which each will contribute to student...

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...

Most instructors using Pearson LearningStudio are aware that they can create groups of students and that those groups will then have their own areas in three of the course tools: Chat, Email, and Doc Sharing. Most instructors who use groups in their online classes, though, restrict their use of groups to the Doc Sharing tool...