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Advantages of Implementing a Learning Management Platform

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Do you know the main benefits of implementing a learning platform in your school? Get to know them in this article.

A true e-Learning platform is one that provides support, offers educational solutions, and makes hybrid and remote instruction easier to implement. It is also an educational portal that offers digital materials and tools as well as analytics and reports all in one place.

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Advantages for students

  • All materials that support learning at anytime, anywhere on one platform
  • Different forms of evaluation for different forms of learning
  • Accessible on all devices in different learning environments
  • More engagement and interaction during classes
  • Easy way to keep in touch with teachers and other students via one platform

Advantages for schools

  • All materials for all classes in one place
  • Easy way to post assignments, check progress, and communicate with students and families
  • Analytics and performance scores to track progress and address issues

Advantages for teachers

  • Materials and guides in digital format for easy access and download
  • Flexibility to rearrange content and add your own content
  • Ability to reach students and run synchronous classes from the platform
  • Tools to encourage engagement and participation
Features of Pearson Digital Hub

Introducing Pearson Digital Hub

In the current environment of distance learning, many programs struggle to reach their learners and engage them in a meaningful way. We at Pearson understand these challenges and have developed a learning and teaching management platform where teachers can provide interactive classes and monitor performance, and students can have access to the information they need from any device. This powerful tool is called the Pearson Digital Hub, and it’s an excellent tool for programs that do not currently use a learning management system.

Keep students engaged and avoid dropouts

Pearson Digital Hub goes hand in hand with current trends in virtual education, providing the same academic level of face-to-face classes, avoiding distractions, and keeping students engaged.

Improve results

By having an intuitive and friendly virtual environment, Pearson Digital Hub offers great advantages in supporting face-to-face or distance teaching, modernizing courses, and improving students’ academic results. In addition, the platform provides analytics and progress tracking, so teachers can easily identify which students are struggling and need more help and attention.

Save time

Each week, teachers spend a great deal of time creating the activities and assignments. With Pearson Digital Hub that time can be reduced since the platform contains all the materials you need to teach your classes.

Improve communication and collaboration

Our platform includes interactive tools where students can communicate and share their questions quickly and easily. This creates an environment conducive to participation and fosters collaboration. In addition, Pearson Digital Hub allows you to conduct lessons in real time via streaming and a message delivery system, all within the platform.

Add your own content

Pearson Digital Hub provides the flexibility to adapt your courses in any way you want. In addition to the Pearson eBooks and digital practice, you can also add your own content such as videos, images, downloadable documents, and more. Here, creativity has no limits, and learning becomes engaging and collaborative.

Learn more about Pearson Digital Hub here.

To learn how to implement Pearson Digital Hub in your program and to request a demo, please contact your Pearson ELT specialist.

What is an LMS platform? And what is it for?

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Learn about the concept of an LMS platform, its general characteristics, and how it can help your institution manage and improve teaching and learning.

The development of technology has facilitated access to many new tools in different fields, including education.

Learning management platforms (LMS) have become popular in recent years, and their popularity has only grown during the Covid-19 pandemic. LMSs not only help keep programs organized, but they also improve the learning experience for students.

There are a few popular LMS platforms currently available on the market. You might have heard about Canvas, Blackboard, or D2L. Several educational publishers also offer their own LMS platforms, such as MyEnglishLab.

In this article, we’ll explain what learning management platforms are and what functions they perform.

What is an LMS platform?

An LMS or e-Learning platform is a distance learning tool that allows you to create a virtual classroom to teach using the Internet. That is, it is a program or software that teachers and students can access from anywhere in the world to meet their teaching and learning objectives.

But not only that. Great learning management systems not only provide an adequate learning environment, but they also transform the learning and teaching process, making it dynamic and accessible. Therefore, LMS platforms must meet certain characteristics. Here are the main ones:

Flexibility: LMS platforms are customizable and flexible for different study plans. This allows content to be added according to the needs of teachers and students.

Interactivity allows users to have different content with which they can interact to better engage with and understand the topics taught.

Usability refers to the ease with which users manage to use the platform in order to achieve a goal. That is, an LMS platform should be easy to navigate with no confusion about its use.

Multiple functionalities: LMS platforms try to replicate the physical environment of the classrooms in a virtual environment. For this reason, they offer different tools such as video classes, chats, and discussion forums.

Accessibility: users can access the full content anytime, anywhere. This should be possible from any type of device (mobile, tablet, and computer).

e-Learning platforms have many advantages for schools and institutions. They are an excellent communication channel for the teacher and student community.  Many of them also allow access to student performance reports, which in turn, allows teachers to address performance issue and tailor their instruction to individual students.

Benefits of LMS platforms

They simplify the learning processes

These platforms use intuitive systems and content with a logical structure that are very easy to use for anyone, including children. In addition, the possibility of having virtual classes expands the options for collaborative and social learning.

They allow access to multimedia content

Learning through LMS platforms is more engaging because they not only include written content like in traditional classrooms, but also allow students to engage and learn with images, videos, infographics, podcasts, and more.

They are easily manageable

The digital nature of the content allows it to be updated in real time and instantly. In addition, it is very easy to manage the roles of users, such as students, teachers, administrators, and others.

They are available 24/7

Thanks to the LMS platforms, the geographical and temporal distance is eliminated. Teachers and students can access their materials from anywhere and at any time of the day.

Without a doubt, LMS platforms are a powerful 360º tool that all schools should consider for their training and educational activities.

If your program is not currently using an LMS, consider Pearson Digital Hub. Pearson Digital Hub allows you to offer mixed classes (face-to-face and virtual), serve digital content to students, run synchronous instruction directly from the platform, assign homework, and obtain performance reports that show each student’s progress. Learn more here or contact your local rep for a demo to see how you can implement at at your institution.

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