Self-Paced Learning: Why It Matters
In this Pearson Podcast, Todd Hitchcock, Pearson’s Senior Vice President of Online Solutions, and Dr. Catrina Poe, Pearson’s Assistant Vice President of Solutions, discuss the shift to student-centric...
View ArticleSelf-paced Learning Comes to Indiana Home Schools
This week, we sat down with Linda Malcak, who is a board member for the Indiana Foundation for Home Schooling (IFHS), to discuss their decision to offer self-paced, online courses to their remotely...
View ArticlePearson Podcast: Connie Spinner of the Community College Preparatory Academy
The Community College Preparatory Academy (CCPA), which opened its doors in September, supports under-served adult learners in an area of the nation’s capital that is experiencing double-digit...
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Conference Buzz: Pearson & Customers Head to Innovations 2013
Click here to download the Innovations program from the conference website Next week, several dedicated members of the Pearson community, and our customers, will be presenting and sharing findings and...
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The new college normal: My track to completion
Casey Randazzo, Class of 2013, Cornell University College has been like running the mile every year of high school. Each year I’d try to come up with some last-minute illness, in fear that I couldn’t...
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Student-directed Learning: The Student Conductor
Rob Kadel, Research Scientist for Higher Education, Research & Innovation Network, Pearson I grew up in a musical family, and though both my parents were music teachers, my father occasionally...
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Answering the Call to Train Tomorrow’s Workforce
This article was posted in the Community College Times on July 17, 2013, and was co-authored by Tom Darling, National Director of Workforce Education at Pearson & Saundra Guy, Director of Health...
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Biometrics in Education: Preserving Integrity in Online Learning
After weeks of speculation about Apple’s new iPhone biometric scanner, it’s finally here! The time-honored hierarchy of technology access security has always been: -something you have (a physical key)...
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Adult Learning in the Mathematics Classroom: Pursuing Discovery Learning
By Louis Freese, Professor of Mathematics, DeVry University Abstract I present a method of learning for the mathematics classroom grounded in adult learning theory but it can be used and adapted for...
View ArticleDisrupting the Space-Time Continuum: Competency-based Learning Explained
The long-held notion that learning can be confined to a space-time continuum with “seat” as the space, and “credit hour” as the variable for time is rapidly declining in its appeal. A shift to...
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