K-12
Access proven expertise in large-scale
product development, education technology
& learning design
LearningMate partners with the K-12 education industry to collaboratively develop and engineer next-generation learning platforms, systems, assessments and content to accelerate your digital learning initiatives with specialized services, data models and customizable content and technology frameworks.
We help K-12 Curriculum Providers, Assessment Companies,
and State Education Agencies with…
Rostering & Single Sign-On The effective and efficient movement of roster data into teaching and learning platforms is arguably one of the most important foundations of a successful K-12 product. After all, if you can’t successfully import educator and student information into your platform, your customers aren’t going to use it. LearningMate has extensive experience implementing data movement tools using IMS Global OneRoster®, Ed-Fi’s Data Standards along with other industry-leading rostering solutions. Using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and other standards-based APIs, we connect your applications to your clients’ authentication and authorization systems to enable seamless Single Sign-On. |
Assessment Solutions LearningMate helps you to go to market faster with standards-based formative, summative and benchmark testing solutions. Our technology frameworks add speed to the development of your assessment product while our authoring and content management tools allow you to quickly transform assessment items from one format to another or rapidly author new items using templates. We can also help you power personalized learning models using analytics and reporting to guide the learning experience. |
NGSS & STEM The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education has changed the way science is presented and learned. The integration of science and engineering practices (SEP) with Cross-Cutting Concepts (CCC) and Disciplinary Core Ideas (DCI) demands that educational materials in STEM-related curriculum be taught, learned, and assessed using a combination of these dimensions. LearningMate’s STEM team provides NGSS, SEP, CCC, and DCI expertise to help our customers ensure their curriculum and assessment programs meet and exceed K-12 science expectations. We’ve helped a variety of publishers and content providers develop educational materials that meet the rigor of these requirements. We’ve also assisted with examining and modifying legacy materials when project timelines are tight. |
Accommodations & Accessibility LearningMate works with clients in the K-12 space to ensure their curriculum and assessment items meet current accessibility standards. Our resources have expertise in implementing WCAG 2.0 standards and have enabled accommodations on various assessment products.
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TEI Transformation LearningMate’s Technology Enhanced Item development services help you leverage new item types that better assess student skills as well as provide assessment experiences that are more engaging and interactive. Whether you are developing products to support SBAC, PARCC or state assessments across the ELA, Math, Social Studies, Sciences or Career and Technical Education subject areas; LearningMate has the tools and templates to simplify the process of designing, authoring, developing and packaging these items for use in proprietary and prevalent formats, test/assessment systems, and learning management systems. We can also help you transform large quantities of legacy assessment items into TEIs that leverage new digital interfaces. With a team of assessment specialists, instructional designers, interaction designers, and data migration specialists, LearningMate provides the tools and expertise to help you go to market faster with well-designed TEI items. |
Adaptive & Personalized Learning LearningMate has developed, maintained and supported several industry-acclaimed adaptive learning solutions. Using our technology frameworks, we’ve helped clients quickly go to market with customizable adaptive learning platforms and supported them with content development, tagging, transformation and migration services. We have also implemented learning platforms that power personalized learning solutions including a one-to-one computing solution, which resulted in a 2.67 grade-level improvement for struggling readers. |
End-to-End Course & Assessment Item Development LearningMate helps you get quality digital learning content and assessments to market faster with full-service content development services. Backed by an integrated team of subject matter experts, learning and media designers, assessment specialists and instructional technologists, we work with you to define your project’s scope and sequence; map content to learning standards; develop storyboards; create assessment blueprints and author items; develop media including animations, simulations and videos; and provide user testing of all content. Our assessment specialists follow a rigorous set of guidelines to ensure that each assessment item meets industry standards for the highest content technical quality. We work with a team of experienced item writers, who have been through an item writing training process and are either currently teaching the subject matter material or who have taught for several years. Each item we develop undergoes several important rounds of review, including content, bias and sensitivity,editorial and final “fresh-eye” review. Items measure what it claims to measure (alignment of a standard), hold superior technical qualities, make sense to students, eliminate barriers and be accessible to all students, mirror classroom experience as closely as possible and meet all industry standards. We also provide services to several large content providers to package and transform assessment items from one format to another or deploy on various assessment delivery engines. |
Reporting & Analytics Data informed decision-making plays a critical role in education today.
LearningMate has extensive experience designing and developing analytics dashboards specifically designed for the needs of stakeholders such as students, teachers, principals, and administrators as well as content editors, developers and project managers. Starting with end-user engagement and the facilitation of focus groups, we ensure the data collected and generated by your systems is presented in a meaningful, actionable and engaging manner to stakeholders using single source of truth.We have built some of the world’s largest data and learning analytics solutions in the education industry; helping many stakeholders improve decision making through more accurate reporting. Our professional development and user experience teams specialize in high-performing systems that deliver high availability and support reporting systems with heavy usage. We are also well-versed in data security and the use of data standards such as CEDs and LRS. |
Interactive eBook Solutions – Authoring & eReader As the industry transitions from print to digital, there is an increasing need for solutions that address content authoring and distribution needs. LearningMate’s technology accelerators help you improve the development and delivery of your narrative digital content with interactivities in a platform that is completely tailored to your needs. We’ll help you augment legacy workflows that are primarily designed for print with newer workflows that efficiently support digital-first ebooks using the IDPF EPUB or PDF format. We can support multiple page layouts and formats for delivery. Our solutions effectively support the realities of Internet infrastructure by enabling innovative content caching and offline capabilities for chromebooks and other devices. We also implement EdTech integration standards to improve interoperability including IMS Global Learning’s OneRoster®, Common Cartridge®, Question and Test Interoperability® and Learning Tools Interoperability®. |
Learning/Academic Standards Learning standards are a critical component of the rapidly evolving breed of state standards used today. Yet, the current processes used to manage these standards are manual, inefficient and error-prone. LearningMate’s Learning Standards Management accelerator helps you migrate inefficient, error-prone learning standards workflows into efficient, customized solutions that allow users to author, manage, publish and search accurate learning standards in a machine-readable format that can be easily consumed by other standards-driven technology platforms. Using the Learning Standards Management accelerator, you can manage multiple taxonomies including state standards and competencies as well as create learning progressions and curriculum maps. |
Mobility & 1:1 Computing One of the key challenges for educators or businesses enabling educators is to ensure that your content is served through multiple channels. The ever-changing classroom landscape requires your platforms to adapt to the new age connected classroom where students use a variety of devices. We have seen the industry embrace personal computers then slowly transition to tablets, Chromebooks and smartphones over the past decade. Using our accelerators, LearningMate can help you build solutions that not only serve rich content but leverage the real-time dynamic nature of a classroom. This coupled with our tried and tested content caching, messaging and distribution strategies will help you build and serve content to students and educators using different devices on varied bandwidth. Our content sharing and collaboration tools enable small group instruction and project based learning in the classroom using devices. |
Digital Learning LearningMate has helped several small, medium and large education companies leverage our accelerators and specialty services to integrate assessment solutions, learning management systems, content management systems, integrated authoring solutions, eBook engines, lesson and curriculum maps, learning analytics and dashboard capabilities into an end-to-end, fully integrated digital learning infrastructure. Using our technology accelerators, our clients are able to realize efficiencies, speed to market and cost savings across their entire application portfolio.
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FERPA/PII LearningMate understands how critical data security is for state and local education agencies. Our team has worked with many education entities to provide data governance and data security guidance. We’ve also partnered with education companies and curriculum providers to help them ensure FERPA and PII compliance for their products. We understand how to comply with FERPA and its reporting practices. We can work with you to enable dashboards and strengthen reporting best practices. Our team can also work with you to audit your products to ensure compliance with all standards. |
State Standard Adoptions Currently there are 20 US states and 3 territories that undergo a state adoption process for K-12 textbooks. LearningMate’s Subject Matter Experts are well versed in state-specific standards and can provide the specific correlation documentation and tagging that is needed for the adoption process. In addition, we can help you identify and fill gaps in your curriculum to match state-specific requirements. |
Career & Technical Education LearningMate’s methodology for career & technical education projects involves collaboration with our STEM, ELA, and Higher Education editorial teams. Our editorial team has vast knowledge of College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) as well as the applicable soft skills required for success in the workplace. We partner with our clients to develop curriculum and assessment preparation materials that integrate mathematics and ELA/literacy standards in real-world, work-related scenarios. These types of materials are used in various high school, technology, and adult education programs to prepare youth and adults for a variety of highly skilled careers that are in demand in the 21st century.
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Our Services
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Strategic Consulting
Next generation learning businesses need next generation enterprise architectures and high-performing business processes. LearningMate partners with executives and senior managers in the education space to provide Business Strategy consulting, Technology Due Diligence for Mergers and Acquisitions, core platform and content architecture, process design and automation, and long-term product roadmap consulting.
Backed by a team of education and business process experts, learning technologists and content specialists; LearningMate is uniquely positioned to guide your long-term strategies into sustainable business models that reduce costs, drive revenue and add to your bottom line.
Diligence
Product Roadmaps & Disruptive Teaching & Learning ModelsAs you build out new digital products and platforms that have potential to disrupt established teaching and learning models, you need a partner who understands product development – both print and digital and who can contribute to your evolving strategy. Whether it is platform development that supports multiple digital products, or creating a new version of a product for multiple geographies with constraints on bandwidth, security, data or governance, we are here to make you successful.
Our teams have worked in classrooms, state departments of education, schools and districts and have helped them and leading edtech companies build their content, assessments, digital products and platforms. We understand how to develop, support and deploy large-scale solutions including longitudinal data systems, rostering, student identity management, one-to-one computing, blended learning programs, remediation and personalized instruction and keep a close watch on emerging trends. Our customers trust us with their product roadmaps and we support the development of industry-leading education products for several large customers serving millions of users in the world today.
Technology Strategy & Due DiligenceLearningMate brings proven processes and tested methodologies to map your business processes to current technology assets, identify and address gaps those assets, and rationalize your application portfolio to provide you solutions on key issues of interoperability, scalability, and sustainability.
Our system integration services have helped create highly-efficient product and solution ecosystems and our comprehensive data strategy services have helped several organizations create a single source of truth whether these are publishers, edtech companies, departments of education or assessment companies.
Our work with executive teams within our customer organizations also extends to providing a technology perspective to prospective mergers and acquisitions. We help our clients assess the value of the technology stack and application portfolio they are buying into and understand the real costs of integration and ownership over time.
Engineering & System Integration
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Curriculum Design
LearningMate helps you develop high-quality, standards-based curriculum and assessment content using strategic, creative solutions and best practices for content accuracy and on-time delivery. Whether you are creating content from scratch or enhancing legacy items to support new learning or assessment models, we leverage our deep SME network, design team, and enhanced metadata to improve the instruction and engagement value of your learning objects while delivering improved functionality, user experiences, and accessibility.
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Assessment Enablement
LearningMate helps you develop workflows, platforms, data models and digital assessment items to support your formative, benchmark, adaptive, diagnostic & performance assessment products.
Our frameworks and services accelerate the creation of new products to facilitate deeper learning, accurately measure progress and enable predictive analytics. We’ve helped many organizations transition to next-generation assessment models while improving their content and metadata management processes. We’ve also assisted with large-scale deployments of assessment products to thousands of students. We’ve helped others improve the quality and utilization of large-scale assessment data by engineering integrated data warehouses and facilitating best practices around data governance while also enabling adoptions of new analytics and machine learning models.
Accelerators
LearningMate’s white-label authoring, management, assessment, mobile and adaptive learning frameworks serve as the foundation for your education solution, allowing you to incorporate your expertise and branding while improving go-to market time. Leverage our best practices, workflow efficiencies, customizable frameworks, expertise on interoperability & education standards and specialty services to realize speed to market, cost savings and differentiation—all in a shared IP model that puts you in control of your roadmap and future.
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SYNCHRONOUS & ASYNCHRONOUS LEARNINGWe’ve packaged a full suite of classroom, collaboration, assessment and reporting features together with anytime, anywhere access via tablets, smartphones and PCs allowing you to select the components that are right for your product, customize to your brand and deliver a fully-integrated digital-first curricular product to your customers. |
LEARNING STANDARDS MANAGEMENTOur accelerators allow you to author, manage and publish various learning standards while leveraging rich reporting capabilities such as item comparison to specific state standards or workflow reporting to track items throughout their development cycle. |
LEARNING RECORD STOREUsing accelerators, industry data standards, and specialty services and processes, we help you securely transfer learning data from multiple sources into a centralized system where it is comprehensively stored and used to deliver cleaner, more accurate reporting. |
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NEXT-GEN AUTHORING FOR DIGITAL & INTERACTIVE COURSEWARELearningMate FROST combines creation, collaboration and content management tools with a highly customizable code base and open integration model so you can focus on building great learning content in a digital-first workflow designed just for you. |
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