Today, major changes are taking place in educational technology and Pearson Education is leading the industry with a whole new series of online course content.

Our ready-to-use online materials can help reach a greater number of students more effectively. The courses are available in multiple course management platforms, such as CourseCompassT, Blackboard and WebCT and feature resources such as online study guides, assessment databanks, interactive exercises and lecture resource material.

The educationally rich content combined with a dynamic course management system result in robust courses that are easy to implement, manage and use.

This proposal should be the first step in your becoming a Pearson online author. Please prepare your proposal carefully, it should act as a document to help you plan the course. Talk to your acquisitions editor if you have any questions.

1. Title of proposed online course

2. Market Course area (e.g. undergraduate students on business studies degree programmes doing a module in Human Resource Management)

3. List of units and topics (like a table of contents). Please remember that the more detail you can give in this area, the more detailed the reviews you will receive. As a guide, most of our courses have between 20 and 25 units with between six and ten topics in each unit.

4. Structure of each unit: Attached is a diagram indicating the usual pedagogical structure of each unit (learning objectives, are you ready test, discussion questions, weblinks section etc.). Is there any way in which your course might deviate from this structure? If so, why and how?

5. Give 5 ideas for interesting and visually stimulating interactions that might appear in the course.

6. Materials already used Materials already used by these students - paper based or online. We have designed all our courses to be used alongside a textbook. How would the course compare with the online / electronic resources currently available?

7. Length: Our courses usually aim to provide 30 to 40 hours of learning time. Would this course be any different in this respect?

8. Will this online course contain extracts from any secondary sources? If so, how will you use them and where will they come from? (NB consider Pearson material which is available to us more easily - FT articles, Investors Chronicle, existing textbooks, Pearson corporate photolibraries etc)

9. Will this online course contain any video? If so, how will you use it and where will it come from? (NB consider Pearson material which is available to us more easily - ITN / Reuters news material, Silicon.com footage, material from the Pearson Corporate Video Archive)

10. Will this online course contain any audio? If so, how will you use it and where will it come from?

11. Do you have any other ideas to make the course really useful and interesting?

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