DeVry gets customized math program from Pearson

Posted by Site Administrator in Uncategorized Jun 26th, 2005

Dvery has hooked up with Pearson Education for a customized math program. The story on the Dvery decision at Business Wire. Pearson Education (NYSE:PSO) today announced an agreement with DeVry University, Inc., a division of DeVry Inc. (NYSE:DV), one of the largest publicly held international higher education companies, to customize Pearson’s MyMathLab online courses for DeVry students nationwide. The MyMathLab homework and tutorial platform will be implemented at the 69 DeVry locations where the university offers its undergraduate programs and available to 43,000 students enrolled in both onsite and online programs. The world’s leading education company, Pearson Education will customize content from its mathematics textbooks to align with DeVry University’s "mastery learning" strategy, recently adopted to ease the initiation to college-level math for DeVry’s large and diverse student body. "Mastery learning is an educational philosophy that increases student success by providing students with feedback and correctives geared to the needs of each individual learner," said DeVry Vice President of Academic Affairs, Patrick Mayers. "MyMathLab provides the curriculum content and computer-based tools and applications to support this learning methodology."

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