Simple, powerful tips

for tuning digital

learning tools to
optimize online
learning
Diane Hollister, Faculty Advisor
Pearson

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Agenda
Getting started online

Ensuring accessibility for all students

Course set up, activities & features

Mindset & motivation

Learner support tools

Assessment & measurement

Resources & support

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Getting started teaching online

Pearson’s online course toolkit provides step-by-step

instructions on how to set up your online course - whether
you use an LMS or not – and provides digital solutions for
daily tasks activities.

Explore at go.pearson.com/OnlineCourseToolkit

Learn more about Quality Matters

While at REMOTE, watch 9 proven strategies for maximizing

student engagement and learning achievement in online
classes

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Accessibility, usability &
universal design
We strive to provide equal access to all learners. To achieve this goal, we
created the Pearson Accessibility Guidelines for eLearning, which provide
developers with standards for creating the most effective educational
content.

Learn more about accessibility in your course

• MyLab & Mastering
• Revel

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Course overview &
introduction
These include items like
‒ Syllabus
‒ Learning Objectives (competencies)
‒ Welcome video or tutorial
‒ Help resources
‒ Pearson Support
‒ Learning Management System information
‒ MyLab & Mastering
‒ Revel
‒ Course layout & student workflow

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Choosing materials & activities

With basic online course structure in place, now pick the specific elements available in Pearson digital tools to
create an optimal online learning experience for your students.

Instructional Materials Learning Activities Learner Interaction

- Media, audio, social platforms
- Diagnostic tools like MyMathTest
& MyReadinessTest
- Curated content such as accessible
PowerPoints, eTexts, image files,
workbooks
- Professional development
resources
- Use prebuilt or make your own:
use learning activities & question
banks
- Provide focused & timely
feedback
- Think about coreqs?
- Roadmap to Coreq Course
Design
- Coreq Math resources
- Communication is key
- Email, discussion boards, wikis,
blog, office hours, feedback
- Tools where students use their
mobile devices to interact, like
Learning Catalytics & Live
Response

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Communication & engagement
tools
In an online course, the most important thing you can do for your
students is to communicate with them. Learning Catalytics
Completely asynchronous
Give them details on when and how you’ll communicate with them, and online courses options
when and how they can communicate with you and each other.
- Specify multiple time slots
• Make use of well-designed Discussion Boards for participation
• Offer virtual office hours - Students sign in for a
session that is convenient
• Utilize virtual meeting tools
for them
‒ Zoom, Google Hangouts, LMS collaboration tools - You don't need to be
• Create online community with Affinity Groups present for these sessions
• Use engagement tools like Learning Catalytics and Live Response

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Choosing product
features
Our interactive learning and
assessment products help you
personalize learning experiences and
make meaningful connections with
your students as you gain insight
into their performance.
Learn more about product features:
• MyLab
• MyLab IT
• Mastering
• Revel
MyLab
- Search & email by criteria
- Use student tagging to sort &
reach out to groups of students
- Track student performance with
tools like item analysis to
provide class or individual
feedback
- Use Document Sharing to share
resources
Revel
- Utilize your dashboard
- Easy-to-read student scores for
early intervention
- Essays & shared media for
detailed instructor & peer
feedback
Mastering
- Review enhanced feedback
items
- Use results from your color-
coded gradebook to identify
and reach out to at-risk students
MyLab IT
- Student actions with simulations
- Learning aids in simulations
- Use feedback reports in grader
projects
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Mindset & motivation

How we think about our brains affects how well we learn.* Fixed mindset Growth mindset
People with a fixed mindset—those who believe that abilities are
I’m finding this hard now,
fixed—are less likely to flourish than those with a growth I’m not good at this – I’ve
but I can improve with time
mindset—those who believe that abilities can be developed.* never been good at this.
and effort.

How we can help students develop a growth mindset I give up – I can’t make this I can improve if I keep
any better. trying!
Direct approaches
• Teach employees about growth mindset Most successful people fail
If I fail, I’m a failure.
• Get students to explain to someone else along the way.

Indirect approaches I can’t do this – I keep on

• Structure assignments that reward multiple drafts making mistakes.
Mistakes help me learn.
• Highlight effort and successful approaches

*Carol Dweck, PhD, psychologist, Stanford University

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Learner support tools

Each student learns at a different

pace. Personalized learning pinpoints
the precise areas where each student eText tools Rich multimedia
Mediashare
needs practice, giving all students resources
the support they need — when and
where they need it — to be
successful.
Learning aids such as Mindset, GRIT & Practice tests &
Our faculty advisors and customer “Help me solve this” Study Skills quizzes with
success agents can help you learn immediate feedback
more about these and choose what
will help you support your students.
Personalized Dynamic Study
Personalized Interest
homework & study Modules, Adaptive
Assessments
plans Followups

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Assessment & measurement

There are multiple ways to assess

and measure learning with Pearson
digital learning environments and
learning and engagement tools. Low stakes weekly Learning Catalytics
Tools to support both quizzing with & Live Response
summative and remediation
formative assessments

Many rubrics & Proctoring options, Gradescope &

assessment tools lockdown browsers, other show work
integration with LMS options

Feedback!!
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How to mitigate cheating

• Scramble and pool questions on tests

• Use algorithmically- generated quantitative questions
• Restrict student access to review until after all students complete an
assignment
• Use proctoring services such as Proctor U with MyLab
• Use lockdown browsers, IP restrictions, etc.
• Use low-stakes quizzing with remediation

Get more tips for your course

• MyLab
• MyLab IT
• Mastering
• Revel

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Workforce, GED, Career
Success, and more
Pearson’s digital tools support learners at every
stage in their career path

• MyLab Foundational Skills

‒ Support for the entire literacy spectrum
‒ Flexible solutions for GED, Adult Basic Ed, Boot
Camp
• Pearson Career Success
‒ A comprehensive platform for all facets of career
preparation that complement and extend your
career development services
• NCCERconnect
‒ Online training program for craft professionals

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Resources to support your
students learning online
Online tutoring services with Smarthinking
• Extend your resources with just-in-time online tutoring,
helping students arrive prepared, succeed in class, and work
towards career goals.

Blog & articles authored by Faculty Advisors & Student Success

Coaches for both faculty & students, such as:
• How to be proactive, present, and purposeful as an online
student
• Helping students cope and thrive in uncertain times
• Being an introvert in the online world

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Resources to help you teach online
effectively
Platform training & support Visit Pearson’s
• On-demand webinars virtual booth
‒ Transitioning to online learning
‒ Ensuring integrity and efficacy in your online tests • Live chat with Faculty Advisors &
‒ Additional test bank & LMS support students
‒ Digital Learning Webinar Series • Access resources for teaching and
• Live webinars with Faculty Advisors learning online
‒ Best practices
‒ Advanced & special topics Don’t miss!
• Teaching & Learning Blog
Beyond Covid19: A perspective on
• Global resources including ELT materials
transcendent trends in digital and online
• Additional helpful sites
learning
‒ Learning Scientists Presenter: Kate Edwards, SVP Learning &
‒ Retrieval Practice Efficacy at Pearson
‒ ”How I’m Spending My Pandemic Summer Vacation”
The Chronicle of Higher Education

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 Thank you, and
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resources & support
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