Akademos Curriculum Services
Akademos understands that faculty need unique solutions to meet the increasing demands for new instructional models that improve student success. The following companies have proven track records assisting institutions, faculty and students through innovative learning materials. We encourage you to review these companies to see if their products can help your students succeed. Contact your client success manager to let us know if you decide to make use of these or other non-traditional learning products.
Interactive WebTexts for Business, Humanities, and Social Science.
For courses in Business, Humanities, and Social Science, MindEdge has created a webtext platform with the optimal amount of interactivity in the form of videos, games, case studies, writing prompts, and more. Using Bloom’s Taxonomy as a central idea, MindEdge texts scaffold to ensure mastery of content
Show MoreMindEdge offers content and technology that seamlessly integrate with all major LMS providers. Students can better master content with MindEdge webtexts featuring narrative learning and simulations. MindEdge works with your institution of higher learning to assemble creative and flexible online learning solutions. Drawing upon an existing library of online content and developing new learning materials where needed, MindEdge creates learning that addresses key educational challenges.
Why it's effective
MindEdge webtexts improve student performance by engaging learners through case studies, simulations, and adaptive learning. MindEdge’s adaptive learning targets content pain points, teaching those difficult topics using multiple approaches to address all learning styles. Instructors can monitor student progress and performance through a powerful real-time dashboard.
Course Offerings:
- Business Ethics
- Change Management
- Critical Thinking
- Cultural Anthropology
- Data-Driven Decision Making
- Ethics
- Financial Accounting
- Human Resource Management
- Humanities
- Information Security
- Math
- Writing & Composition
- Logic
- Principles of Management
- Project Management
- Psychology
- Sociology
- World Religions
Customizable OER courseware in Economics, History, and Science.
With offerings in Economics, History, and Science, panOpen’s platform takes OER courseware and makes it highly customizable, allowing you to add, remove, or edit videos, articles, and even written text, all inside the resource.
Show MorepanOpen is a platform that promotes the widespread adoption of open educational resources (OER). They deliver OER content to instructors and students in an interactive and fully customizable environment..Open source educational materials are a truly disruptive force in the market for educational content, and panOpen is dedicated to using these OER resources to improve educational access and free faculty from the constraints of the commercial copyright structure.
Why it's effective
panOpen aligns the economic and operational interests of all stakeholders—faculty, administrators, and students—to create a foundation for increasing student academic success. They provide the tools and services that schools need to adopt OER resources tailored to their unique course needs, with embedded questions and activities to keep students engaged in the content.
Course Offerings:
- Biology
- Business & Finance
- Chemistry
- Economics
- History
- Physics
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
A student-owned, personalized learning experience in physics, biology, and social science.
Specializing in Physics, Biology, and Social Science, Lrnr’s learning platform is highly personalized and adaptive, mapping at the granular level how well a student is performing, which areas need extra attention, and providing the best way to go about mastering the material.
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Personalized Learning For Everyone
Lrnr builds powerful, practical, cost-effective personalized learning systems that deliver
measurably superior results. Lrnr integrates STEM focused content with intuitive personal
learning
tools, adaptive assessment, individualized learning paths, and actionable analytics to transform
the
learner from a passive receptor of information to an active collaborator in the educational
process.
Why it's effective
As students interact with Lrnr, the platform gathers data on the students’ progress and continually adapts to how they learn. These metrics enable the instructor to monitor each student’s progress throughout the course and take action to assist them exactly when they need it. The Lrnr platform measures the learning preferences of each individual student and creates a learning path that is personalized across five crucial dimensions:
- Pace of content presentation
- Sequence of content
- Level of difficulty
- Form of content and choice of supplemental information
- Remedial focus
- Affordable, High Quality Content
Under the direction of the educator, Lrnr’s adaptive courseware is a turn-key solution delivering highly personalized learning experiences using affordable OER content. Educators can use Lrnr to customize an existing course or faculty and administrators may use Lrnr to create their own content. Either way, the result is high quality solutions at incredibly affordable prices that result in unprecedented success rates for students.
Course Offerings:
- Anatomy & Physiology
- Biology
- Economics
- Physics
- Psychology
- Sociology
Highly visual, mastery-based courseware for Economics, Psychology, and History, and Math.
The courseware for Fulcrum Labs, focusing on Economics, Psychology, History, and Math, is loaded with stunning video and animation, in-depth reading material, and a bevy of practice questions that automatically adjust based on student performance for mastery-based learning.
Show MoreFulcrum Labs can help turn your students into learners, and your learners into masters of the subject matter. The Fulcrum Labs personalized learning platform features premium content in a competency-based system that leads to verifiable mastery. Their unique adaptive learning technology adjusts, in real-time, to find the most optimal challenge for each student. It puts students in control of their own learning experience, allowing them to watch, read, or practice whenever they like, wherever they like.
Why it's effective
Fulcrum Labs easily integrates with any of your courses, as well as provide turnkey solutions in specific subject areas. Their platform features a powerful dashboard that keeps students updated on their own progress, leading to increased engagement and motivation. The instructor can track progress, performance, subject mastery and study habits with over thirty unique learning analytics. With their user-friendly dashboards, you can quickly evaluate course-specific data about each individual student or the entire class.
Course Offerings:
- American Government
- College Algebra
- College Success
- Foundations of Reading & Writing
- Intermediate Algebra
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Organizational Behavior
- Psychology
- Sociology
Math resources rich in videos, examples, and problem sets in algebra and calculus.
XYZ Textbooks incorporates videos and relevant application of math into its courseware, resulting in
a
hands-on approach to learning for everything from developmental math to advanced calculus.
xyz textbooks produces quality materials for mathematics instruction, including textbooks (both print and electronic), videos, online homework, and worksheets. They offer all products at a reasonable price, with professional, accessible service. Their goal is to give students the opportunity to be successful in any college mathematics course from basic mathematics through applied calculus. Study skills and success skills are integrated into all materials.
Why it's effective
The multiple esolutions provided by xyz textbooks make learning easy. xyz homework is an easy-to-use, feature-packed online teaching tool that helps students learn online. They provide instructors with the tools they need and deserve for students to succeed in math. MathTV is their unparalleled video library offering more than 10,000 math video tutorials. QR codes and online books add to their comprehensive platform.
Course Offerings:
- Applied Calculus
- College Algebra
- College Mathematics
- Intermediate Algebra
- Precalculus
IT courseware and labs aligned with industry certifications.
Winner of numerous CODiE awards, uCertify's catalog covers over 400 titles in IT courseware and labs, Project Management, and other industry-aligned certification prep tools. Either instructor-led or self-paced, uCertify's courseware drives job-ready skills and prepares students for critical industry certifications.
Show MoreuCertify is a powerful, interactive learning platform designed to make learning interesting and effective for students of all ages. It has the intuitiveness and ease of a book powered by the interactivity of a powerful e-learning platform.
Why it's effective
Learn, Practice, and Track is the uCertify philosophy. The learning features are provided by an interactive textbook, study notes, flash cards, how-tos, exercises with hints, and more. Students then take practice from hundreds of questions in learn, test, and review modes for optimal learning, until they have mastered the concepts. The progress tracking and powerful analytics help a student clearly identify their areas of weakness and strength, as well as their progress at any given point in time.
Course Offerings:
- Computer Information Systems
- Programming
- Databases
- CompTIA
- Oracle
- Adobe
- Project Management