Success stories

Take a look at the testimonials from educators and students who have shared their experiences of using our other products and services. 

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  • Swansea University, Wales, UK

    Revel

    A positive new study revealed that 88% of students would recommend Revel to others. 

    Swansea University in Wales is the latest institution to praise the teaching tool which is designed around a series of learning principles proven to reduce cognitive load, maintain attention span, improve understanding and critical thinking.

    This study combines interviews with students and academics with independent research completed by the teaching team at Swansea. 

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  • West Texas A&M University, Smarthinking, USA

    Non-traditional students, many of whom had jobs or families, had difficulty finding the time to come to campus for tutoring assistance. Student-athletes in this institution also had difficulty accessing the on campus tuition service due to heavy practice and game schedules. In addition, student interest in online classes was growing, so this institution tried Smarthinking's online tuition service. 

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  • Valencia College, Smarthinking, USA

    Valencia College evaluated the efficacy of Smarthinking on online tutoring on student success and persistence.

    The findings included:

    Students who used both face-to-face and online tutoring had the highest success rates.

    Students who used tutoring of any type appeared more likely to be retained while students who used both types of tutoring appeared to have the highest rates of retention term-to-term and year-to-year.

    Students identified the prompting of an instructor as the most influential factor in their seeking tutoring assistance.

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  • Mesa Community College, Smarthinking, USA

    Mesa Community College (MCC), the largest of ten colleges in the Maricopa County Community College District, prepares its students to succeed in the workforce or to transfer to a four-year college or university. Forty percent of MCC’s students, many of whom are nontraditional students, take an online or hybrid course. To support these students, the college supplements its traditional tutoring services with an online tutoring service. Since 24/7 online tutoring was introduced in 2011, approximately two thousand students have benefited from the service.

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What students say

We get set homework every week. For me the benefit of MyMathLab is actually working through the examples that we've been taught in class. That's how I learn maths.

Llinos Owen, student, Engineering Maths, University of Liverpool, UK (MyMathLab)

I just wanted to let you know how helpful the Mastering Biology is! It makes me study better, almost forces me to it! And it is a perfect combination between pictures, videos and text. It's genius!

Renee Bakkemo, student, University of Essex (MasteringBiology)

It is like having a teacher by your side, you learn it a lot quicker than usual homework!

Jannick Mikkelsen, student, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (MyEconLab)

[MyFinanceLab is] like a personal tutor laying the path toward your learning finance.

Fredrik Hannfors, student, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden (MyFinanceLab)

What educators say

"What really helped was that fact that [MasteringEngineering] was online, available 24/7. That really helped; students these days want to decide when they study. That's when we really saw our pass rates go up."

- Gillian Saunders, lecturer, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, using MasteringEngineering with Hibbeler: Statics (MasteringEngineering)

The average mark is approximately 10% higher than it was previously. Furthermore, the failure rate has decreased significantly - from 32% to 5-14% in recent years.

Marion Birch and Niels Walet, Manchester University (MasteringPhysics)

Since I've been using it my pass rates have gone up - the first year I used the system it was quite striking.

Carrie Rutherford, London South Bank University, UK (MyMathLab)

Results show that these students performed on average 10% better on the final exam.

Matthew Olczak, Aston University, UK (MyEconLab)

The percentage of students who passed the course increased from 55% to 80%.

Halit Gonenc, University of Groningen, Netherlands (MyFinanceLab)

The number of low performers was lower than in the corresponding exams a year ago.

Jouko Karjalainen, Aalto University, Finland (MasteringPhysics)