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Pearson Online Learning Services
Grow enrollment and help learners succeed with innovative services for all your online offerings— from short courses to degree programs.
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Pearson Online Learning Services
Accelerate growth, improve outcomes, and reduce risk
For many institutions, accelerating growth in online programs is mission critical. An OPM partnership with Pearson helps you serve more learners with less risk and better outcomes. We’ll help you expand your profile, improve your competitiveness, and execute in areas from recruitment to retention.
We invented online program management, and we’ve done it longer than anyone, supporting over 40 institutional partners and 350 student-centric, academically strong programs. We’ve built the most comprehensive student recruitment agency — generating some 1.5 million inquiries a year for our partners. Once students enroll, we’ll help you deliver a great experience — including all the support they need to succeed in their courses, graduate, and thrive afterward.
You control program standards, admissions, tuition, curricula, course content, and instruction, and you keep all your IP. We bring proven best practices, integrated processes, and unsurpassed resources to help you scale. Together, we customize a financial model that serves your online programs best — whether it’s revenue share, fee for service, or a hybrid co-investment approach. (We’ve pioneered all three.)
There’s no better way to help everyone succeed: students, faculty, and your institution.
Explore Pearson services to help you improve all aspects of online program delivery.
Benefits
Sustainable online growth starts with a passion for education and student success. As the world’s leading learning company, we help you grow by building academically strong online programs and helping students excel. Our integrated services help you magnify your impact by translating the best of what you do and who you are to global online environments. From recruitment to course development, coaching to tutoring, everything works together, so it all works better.
Growth experts
We provide resources to accelerate growth, identify opportunities, reach and enroll more prospects nationwide, and widen access in fiscally responsible ways
Student-centric
We help more learners succeed, every step of the way: from enrollment through graduation and beyond
Academic heart
We help you and your faculty translate your pedagogy to the online teaching environment, building academically strong programs you’re proud to offer
Results
Since 1993, Pearson OPM partnerships have helped great institutions grow online. We’ve helped them launch their first online programs, progress from bachelor’s to master’s degree programs, or layer on new specialties for faster career progress. We help institutions serve high-demand areas such as nursing, counseling, speech pathology, business, IT, and cybersecurity. We work with individual schools, or across the entire university. We build partnerships based on revenue share, fee-for-service, or co-investment. Whatever form the relationship takes, we’re in it for the long term, to sustain success for everyone.
Explore some of our OPM partnerships
See what we do and what our partners and students say.
Arizona State University
Discover how partnering with Pearson has helped ASU Online scale from 8,200 to 41,000 students in six years, and grow its fully-online programs from 33 to 241. See how Pearson helps ASU support its mission of enabling every student with a desire to learn to pursue a college degree.
Maryville University
See how Maryville University teamed with Pearson to move high-quality education and outcomes online, launching 10 new online degree programs at once.
Duquesne University
Learn how Duquesne University’s School of Nursing works with Pearson to grow enrollments, diversity, and out-of-state recruitment — as it expands its online program portfolio, mitigates risks, and strengthens its national brand.
Ohio University
See how Ohio University believes online learning is so important to students today and meets them where they are.
Nick, Master of Science candidate
Learn how Nick’s online program helps him engage deeply with professors to prepare for a career of giving back — while also pursuing his passion as a three-time Olympic bobsledder and serving in the New York State National Guard.
More Pearson OPM partnerships include:
Arizona State University
Bradley University
Duquesne University
Eastern Kentucky University
George Washington University
Hofstra University
Maryville University
Misericordia University
Northeastern University
Norwich University
Ohio University
Regis College
Rider University
University of Alabama at Birmingham
University of California, Riverside
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Maryland
University of Nevada, Reno
University of North Dakota
University of Southern California
Villanova University
Wake Forest University
Washington State University
Resources & FAQs
Working with our partners, we’ve learned a lot over the past 25 years. Our experiences can help you ask better questions, make better decisions, and build better programs. We invite you to explore our insights and research into building successful online programs that support your strategy and mission, and serve all stakeholders.
Pearson OPM FAQs and Mythbusters
Depending on your role, you may have different questions about online learning and partnering with Pearson. So we’ve developed FAQs and Mythbusters around the issues that may concern you most directly.
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