MyLab Economics
MyLab Economics is a customizable online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with educational content written by respected scholars across the curriculum.
Educators and learners teaching and studying economics at the undergraduate level who need trusted learning materials and secure, authentic assessment can look to MyLab Economics to provide current, bias-free content and innovative study/assessment tools that make teaching and learning easy and effective.
Engage, challenge, and assess your students' economic understanding
With input from more than 11 million student users annually, MyLab creates truly personalized online learning experiences that help students move from concept to application. Using MyLab, students apply what they learn to real-world scenarios, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan with data-driven guidance that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.
“Pearson does integrated elearning really well. Their platform has student study aids, homework, and quiz tools all in one place which is great for limiting distractions and keeping students on track. It’s a great platform to use especially now that it integrates into my institution’s LMS.”
– Intro Micro Professor at University of PEI
Anti-cheating Support
NEW! Algorithmic Test Bank
The Algorithmic Test Bank is designed to empower you in creating more dynamic assessments without sacrificing valuable instructional time.
Choose from over 400 text-agnostic Micro and Macro questions that use randomly generated question variables to encourage continuous practice and deter cheating.
Promote critical thinking and application of key economic principles
Digital Interactives
Economic principles are not static ideas, and learning about them shouldn’t be either!
Digital Interactives are dynamic and engaging activities that promote critical thinking and application of key economic principles where students can explore, apply, compare, and analyze a topic. Students can practice their graphing skills using a graphing tool to plot points on a graph that relates to economics concepts.
Digital Interactives can be assigned and graded within MyLab, or used as a lecture tool to encourage engagement, classroom conversation, and group work.
Help students apply course concepts to real-world events
Current News Exercises
Every week, microeconomic and macroeconomic news stories and accompanying exercises are posted to MyLab.
Assignable and auto-graded, these multi-part exercises ask students to recognize and apply economic concepts to current events.
Assess students' understanding using real-time economic data
Real-Time Data Analysis Exercises
Easy to assign and automatically graded, Real-Time Data Analysis exercises use up-to-the-minute, real-time macroeconomic data. These exercises communicate directly with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s FRED™ site, so every time FRED posts new data, students see it.
These exercises communicate directly with the sites for Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s FRED™ and Statistics Canada, so every time FRED or StatsCan posts new data, students see it.
Help students study better
Dynamic Study Modules
Using the latest developments in cognitive science, Dynamic Study Modules help students study chapter topics by adapting to their performance in real time.
As a result, students build the confidence they need to deepen their understanding, participate meaningfully, and perform better — in and out of class.
Available on smartphones, tablets, and computers.
Make homework a learning opportunity
Targeted Feedback and Learning Aids
MyLab generates a personalized Study Plan for students based on their test results, which links directly to interactive, tutorial exercises for topics they struggle with most.
These include Help Me Solve This, which breaks down the problem into steps, unlimited practice, figure animations, links to relevant pages of the eText, and more. Students who answer a question incorrectly receive targeted feedback to help develop their understanding — making homework a learning opportunity.
Link from your LMS to MyLab Economics
Learning Management System (LMS) Integration
You can now link from Blackboard Learn, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, or Moodle to MyLab Economics. Access assignments, rosters, and resources, and synchronize grades with your LMS gradebook.
For students, single sign-on provides access to all the personalized learning resources that make studying more efficient and effective.
Additional Features
Comprehensive online course content
Filled with a wealth of content that is tightly integrated with your textbook, MyLab lets you easily add, remove, or modify existing instructional material. You can also add your own course materials to suit the needs of your students or department. In short, MyLab lets you teach exactly as you'd like.
A powerful homework and test manager
A powerful homework and test manager lets you create, import, and manage online homework assignments, quizzes, and tests that are automatically graded. You can choose from a wide range of assignment options, including time limits, proctoring, and maximum number of attempts allowed. The bottom line: MyLab means less time grading and more time teaching.
Pearson eText: access anytime, anywhere
Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, personalized reading experience available within MyLab. Students can use their computer or the mobile app to easily highlight and take notes all in one place — even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and rich media* give students access to the help they need, when they need it. You can also share your own notes with students so they see the connection between their reading and what they learn in class.
Robust gradebook tracking
The Gradebook offers an easy way for you and your students to see their performance in your course. Item Analysis lets you quickly see trends by analyzing details like the number of students who answered correctly/incorrectly, time on task, and more. And because it's correlated with the AACSB Standards, you can track students' progress toward outcomes that the organization has deemed important in preparing students to be leaders.
Easily scalable and shareable content
MyLab enables you to manage multiple class sections, and lets other instructors copy your settings so a standardized syllabus can be maintained across your department. Should you want to use the same MyLab course next semester, with the same customized settings, you can copy your existing course exactly — and even share it with other faculty members.
Mobile access
With access to their MyLab course via their tablet or mobile phone, students can now easily study and complete assignments anywhere, anytime!
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