Math Emporium: Higher Education's Silver Bullet

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 14:49 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Press

The primary reason many students do not succeed in the [traditional math] course is that they do not actually do the problems. As a population, they generally do not spend enough time with the material, and this is why they fail at a very high rate. Learn more about this in the full article by Carol Twigg, President and CEO of the National Center for Academic Transformation, which was published in Change Magazine, in the May–June 2011 issue.

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Tags: emporium, mymathlab, mystatlab

Measuring Your Students’ Learning

Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 13:54 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Presentations

With increasing focus on program assessment and accountability, Pearson offers support for instructors interested in quantifying their impact on student learning. In each of these online sessions, you’ll explore topics such as how to get started with gathering and analyzing your student success data, what to consider, and helpful tools provided by Pearson. MyMathLab and MyStatLab users will share their experience with student success data and the impact it had on their teaching. Please join us for one of the following sessions.

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Tags: mymathlab, mystatlab, student_success

What's Coming for January 2012?

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 15:17 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Product Updates

Rolled-up Item Analysis for Exports
Item Analysis Exports are now available for course groups from both the Quick Exports and Advanced Exports pages. If a coordinator-instructor exports Item Analysis for a course group, he/she can get a summary of student performance across all course sections in the course group, and also student scoring details for each student. Question metrics (difficulty, median time, correct on first try) are also included in Advanced Exports.

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Tags: mathxl, mymathlab, mymathtest, mystatlab, new features

The Importance of College Prep

Monday, November 14, 2011 - 15:04 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Press

Check out this great video about how Middlesex Community College in Massachusetts is using MyMathLab to help their students succeed.

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Speaking About Math + Stats -- October 21

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 21:15 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Events

Looking for new teaching strategies and techniques? Interested in Course Redesign and new technology? Learn from your colleagues for FREE and from the comfort of your own home or office! Join our Speaking about Math & Stats Online Conference – Friday, October 21st from 10am-5pm Eastern.

This full day online conference is filled with sessions given by mathematicians and statisticians.

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Tags: mymathlab, mystatlab, speaking_about, statcrunch

Pearson to Attend AMATYC

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 12:17 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Presentations

Pearson is proud to be participating in the 37th annual AMATYC conference "Shootin' for the Stars" at the Hilton in Austin, TX. In addition to our exhibit booths, we'll be hosting 5 commercial presentations on November 11th and 12th, all located in room 616B. Although labeled as commercial, these presentations are strictly intended as training and best practices discussions. Educator hosted, the focus is on sharing ideas and tips that you can use in your courses - helping you aim higher!

We invite you to join us -

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Tags: AMATYC, mathxl, mymathlab, mystatlab, training

Pearson to Host Accessible Mathematics Forum

Monday, June 27, 2011 - 11:09 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Press

Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, will host the session “Accessible Math for Students with Print Disabilities,” July 7, at the National Federation of the Blind's National Convention, Rosen Shingle Creek Hotel, Orlando, FL. To learn more, or to view the complete convention agenda, visit http://www.nfb.org/nfb/National_Convention.asp.

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Tags: accessibilty, mymathlab, NFB

PERT + Pearson

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 22:44 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Product Updates

Does your state have standards in place for what students should know at the conclusion of a particular course or sequence of courses? We at Pearson have been working to align a number of our courses and textbooks with the outcomes determined by states for higher education. For example, Florida has developed the Postsecondary Education Readiness Test (PERT) as the primary placement assessment used by The Florida College System. We now have four different MyMathLab courses that include the PERT Standards, for easy instructor assessment of student understanding of the objectives.

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Tags: mathxl, mymathlab, mymathtest, PERT, standards

Join Us at ICTCM

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 13:03 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Events

We are already looking forward to the 2012 ICTCM--and we want to see you there. The 2012 International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, co-hosted by the University of Central Florida and Valencia Community College, will be March 22-25 in Orlando, Florida at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort. We are accepting speaker proposals now and would love to hear from you!

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Tags: ICTCM, Pearson, speakers

New Features for Summer 2011

Friday, May 20, 2011 - 09:07 | By: Becky Anderson | Category: Product Updates

Check out what's planned for our release this summer.

Assign Questions from Other Books   Instructors can select questions from other books and add them to assignments while keeping Help Me Solve This and View an Example. There will be a limit of 10 "other" questions per assignments.

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Tags: mathxl, mymathlab, mystatlab, new features, summer 2011