Map your strategy for online learning

Your success delivering online learning strategies may include several stages. As you launch, grow, and evolve programs to meet learners' changing needs, you may find yourself going places and achieving things you never expected.

We’ve been innovating online programs for academic institutions for a long time, and we’re sharing some of what we’ve learned along the way — from both partners and students. Wherever you are in your journey, we want to help. View our latest research below and reach out to us to begin a conversation with Pearson Online Learning Services.

Start: Prepare to go online

Strategies for institutions in the early stages of building online learning programs. 

Safeguarding the integrity of online learning through learning design

Learn how Pearson's Learning Design Solutions (LDS) team ensures our college and university partners' online courses are designed and developed to meet the highest expectation of quality and efficacy.

Identifying growth opportunities and funding sources

Explore key considerations for choosing which programs to take online and the capital options to launch them.

Help faculty succeed with online teaching

Give faculty the tools they need to be better online instructors and improve the learner experience.

Expand: Accelerate online program growth

Resources for institutions already operating online programs or courses, and ready to grow and scale.

Learn from Maryville’s innovative approach to stackables

See how Maryville’s stackables strategy helps adult learners upskill rapidly in areas of high demand, and quickly get value from what they learn.

Grow institutions and learners that thrive on change

Welcome change and use it to your advantage: what Pearson VP Sasha Thackaberry learned while scaling LSU’s online program organization from 800 students to 12,000+.

Help learners overcome “the burden of choice”

Apply consumer behavior insights to help learners make better, timelier program decisions.

Transform: Reinvent online programs

Resources for institutions with extensive online learning experiences who want to update their strategies to meet evolving audiences and workforce requirements.

UND Introduces Certificates to its Cyber Security Program

Learn how the University of North Dakota added standalone certificates to its cybersecurity programs to deliver value to online learners.  
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Transformational learner-centered innovation: a leader’s view

Focus innovation where it best serves your learners and your institution. Get new ideas and insights from Lisa Knight, VP, Innovation & Product Strategy, Pearson Online Learning Services.
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Create in-demand online certificate programs

Review Pearson research on shifting learner attitudes towards non-degree credentials, and learn how three institutions are using certificate programs to drive growth, serving both learner and employer needs.

Connect with us 

With 25+ years of online program management experience, we have the know-how to meet you where you are and take your degree and non-degree programs to the next level. Let’s talk about your programs — and enrollment growth.

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