About WebCT
WebCT is a best-of-breed Course Management System that established and continues to define the higher education e-learning market. With over 2200 institutions in more than 80 countries currently reaping the benefits of its e-learning platform and services, WebCT delivers a high-quality educational experience to a diverse population of students. Our product is supported by an industry-first coalition of dedicated educational specialists and the world's largest network of innovative customer partners, all working together to advance the product, company and industry.
For more information, please
contact your local rep or visit
http://www.webct.com.
While facilitating the organisation of course material on the Web, WebCT also provides a variety of tools and features that can be added to a course, including:
· conferencing system
· on-line chat
· student progress tracking
· student self-evaluation
· grade maintenance and distribution
· access control
· navigation tools
· auto marked quizzes
· electronic mail
· course calendar
· student homepages
About the Partnership
Pearson Education WebCT course content helps you meet the challenge of creating robust, interactive and educationally rich online courses. Our WebCT online content provides you with high quality, class-tested material pre-programmed and fully functional in the WebCT environment. Whether used as an on-line supplement to either a campus-based or distance-learning course, our pre-assembled course content gives you a tremendous head start in developing your own on-line courses.
· Preformatted course materials, such as quizzes, guided Internet links, and lecture notes are provided to you, making it easy to implement WebCT into your course and ensuring the maximum utilisation of WebCT's powerful tools with Pearson Education's rich online content.
· A simple point-and-click navigation system makes it easy for you to customise your course to your specific needs, including setting up a course calendar, quizzes, assignments, lectures, and self-paced study help.
· The Wizard Program guides you through the initial stages of building your online course, providing you with all of the assistance you will need.
· Gold Level Customer Support, available exclusively to adopters of Pearson Education textbooks, is awarded free-of-charge upon adoption and provides you with priority assistance, training discounts, and dedicated technical support.
To find out what online resources are offered with your chosen textbook, please go to the relevant book page in our
Online Catalogue.
