Dive Brief:
- Pearson and the University of Texas at Austin are developing online course resources to enable students to earn college credits much more quickly for math courses.
- The for-profit education publishing company and the university’s Charles A. Dana Center will make the resources available for math reasoning, statistical reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and reasoning with functions, according to a press release.
- The first course resource will be available this fall, with others planned for launch in the spring of 2016.
Dive Insight:
The initiative is part of the New Mathways Project, which aims to help community colleges provide math programs with “rigorous, transferrable, college-level content” to meet specific academic and professional requirements. The project is a statewide effort to improve student achievement in math courses, and overcome what have been high failure rates in entry-level math courses in college.
Ultimately, programs like this may be particularly key when it comes to retaining students who are discouraged by full-length remedial courses.