Remote teaching and learning support
In line with government guidance, schools across the UK are planning and providing blended learning and remote education due to COVID-19. Our range of online and print solutions, top tips and guidance are here to help teaching and learning continue anytime, anywhere.

Resources to support blended and online learning
ActiveLearn
Used by thousands of teachers and students across the globe every day, our ActiveLearn service has powered online primary and secondary education since 2012.
Complementing our curriculum programmes with onscreen content, allocatable homework tasks and more, ActiveLearn can support you with providing personalised teaching and learning experiences in and out of the classroom.
To help support teaching and learning remotely during this period, we’re offering 30-day free trial access to ActiveLearn Primary and ActiveLearn Secondary.
Find out more about ActiveLearn and request a free trial:
How do our resources support remote education?
In line with the Department for Education’s (DfE) remote education good practice guidance, schools across the UK are planning and providing blended learning and remote education. We recognise that all schools’ situations vary significantly, so we’ve outlined a variety resources to support schools in meeting the DfE expectations.
Download our PDF and discover the range of support, top tips and guidance

Free online GCSE English, Maths and Science lessons
To help manage the ongoing disruption of COVID-19, and support GCSE teaching and learning, we are offering a series of free on-demand lessons for English, Maths and Science.
The lessons are suitable for all awarding bodies and can be viewed on Pearson UK Learning YouTube channel.

Free new mobile app for KS4 learning
The new Pearson Revise app is free for you to use to support your learning. You can use the app to track your progress, test KS4 topic knowledge with quick quizzes, and share your progress with teachers. There's also the option to link to relevant content in the Pearson Revise Edexcel Revision Guides as needed.
- Free to use with all GCSE topics in one place. Website version also available!
- Quick quizzes covering all Pearson Edexcel GCSE topics.
- Use anywhere, anytime to track what you know and what you need to work on.
- Available for Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) maths, history, sciences and business.
Teaching for Impact Online courses
The new Pearson Professional Development Academy has three brand-new courses that focus on best practices for delivery of online teaching and learning. These self-directed online courses can be taken at a time that suits you and will provide you with skills and strategies that have been tested in true online environments with actual teachers and learners engaged in distance learning for the past 20 years.
These courses are relevant to teachers at all levels looking to improve their learners' online experience and engagement.
In addition, our safeguarding online course provides a series of practical and easily accessible videos for anyone wanting to become more confident in making the online environment safe for their learners.

Read alouds of Pearson resources
We understand that during the school closures, many of you might be reading aloud or sharing content with your students from our books and other resources in your online classrooms.
To ensure you're fully compliant with copyright laws, please follow our guidance.

Home learning support for parents

Top tips from Pearson and beyond
Videos on getting started with online teaching and learning
Following requests from teachers across the world, our experts have created short videos with hints, tips and tools to support you with distance learning. They include:
- Pearson’s top tips for online delivery from Amy McJennett, Director of Digital and Assessment for UK Schools at Pearson
- Introduction to online remote delivery for GCSE and A level
- Planning and delivering online for GCSE and A level
- Supporting GCSE and A level students studying online
Blogs on getting started with online teaching and learning
As the education community adapts to new ways of teaching and interacting with learners, ideas and tips are being shared in blogs and articles across the world. Here are a few blogs and sites we’ve selected that include helpful guidance for online teaching and learning:
From Microsoft
Remote teaching and learning in Office 365 Education, including information for teachers who want to create online classes with Teams
From Google
Distance Learning with Google for Education, including guidance on enabling online lessons with Google Hangouts
More from Pearson to support schools with the ongoing impact of COVID-19
Learners, teachers and families are at the heart of everything we do at Pearson, and we are fully committed to helping schools manage the ongoing impact of COVID-19, and to keep learning going throughout the autumn term and into 2021 – whatever happens.
Learn more about how our free support and paid-for resources can assist you with all of the below, and more:
