Hello,

 

Thank you for agreeing to participate in the CourseCompass Focus Group on Friday, September 25th, 8:30-10am. For those of you who have not yet sent a reply about whether you’ll be attending or not, please let me know as soon as possible. You and your colleagues will be joined by a handful of Pearson product managers excited to learn about your experiences with our products and your opinions about how they can be made better in the future.

 

During this focus group we will be exploring proposed changes to the CourseCompass interface and course structure. We will be showing proposals for new user interfaces, and we will ask you to comment on how various styles of access to course tools and content would suit your instructional style. In this session, specifically, we will talk about a two-sided approach to accessing, creating, and managing course materials. In one view, you explore the finished content of the course (the student’s perspective). In the other view, you get access to tools that let you create/edit content and manage it in terms of sequence, time, or access.

 

We look forward to meeting with you on the 25th.  

 

Safe travels,

Beth

 

 

From: Foster, Joanne [mailto:joanne.foster@pearson.com]
Sent: Thu 8/27/2009 12:50 PM
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Cc: Porter, Elizabeth; Mullane, Karen; Bondaryk, Leslie; Wozniak, Julie; Perry, Mary Ann; Thom, Marlene; Murphy, Paul (PH)
Subject: Invitation to Course Compass and MyLabs Plus Focus Group in Miami

Dear Professors,

 

We’re looking forward to seeing you at the Pearson Course Redesign meeting next month in Miami. Your continued commitment to course redesign improvements helps educators across the country to enable student success. As an expert in your field, we need your knowledge about what works in the classroom – physical, virtual or hybrid – to help shape our next generation of MyLabs products. Your participation in this special opportunity will help us to build the products that help you.

 

We’d like invite you to a Preview and Feedback-Session on several new features we’re designing for CourseCompass and our newest service, MyLabsPlus. Your honest impressions and ideas will help our product team focus on what matters most for teaching and learning.  And, we hope you’ll enjoy this opportunity for a sneak peek at some of our aspirations and future plans.

 

Session details:

 

When: Friday, September 25, 2009

 

Where: Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach

 

Time: 8:30am -10:00am (Breakfast will be served)

 

Room: Glimmer 6, Level 4

 

We’re holding a limited number of spaces for this special breakfast session, so please reply soon and let us know if you’re available. Please RSVP to Beth Porter (elizabeth.porter@pearson.com or 617-848-7644) by Monday, September 21, so we can plan for your attendance.

 

We hope you can join us!

 

Regards,

Beth Porter

CourseCompass Program Director