K-12

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.