Navigating Pearson Education eTextbooks and Study Prep: A Comprehensive Guide

Pearson Education offers a range of digital learning resources, including eTextbooks and Study Prep, designed to enhance the learning experience. This guide provides a detailed overview of Pearson eTextbooks, Study Prep, and related features, addressing common questions and providing instructions for effective use.

Understanding Pearson eTextbooks

eTextbooks are digital versions of textbooks that provide access to a variety of upgraded study tools, designed to simplify studying. These tools include:

Enhanced Search: Quickly find specific information within the textbook.
Highlighting and Notes: Mark important passages and add personal notes.
Customizable Flashcards: Create and use digital flashcards for efficient studying.
Audio Options: Listen to the textbook content, if available, for auditory learning.

Pearson eTextbooks can be accessed on-the-go with the Pearson+ app, available for mobile and desktop devices.

Accessing and Managing eTextbooks

When you purchase an eTextbook, you’ll access it in your library from the app or on the web. If you already purchased an eTextbook through MyLab, Mastering or Pearson’s instructor-led eTextbook platform, you can download the Pearson+ app and use it to access your eTextbook in Pearson+ anytime, anywhere. Be sure you're registered for your MyLab, Mastering, or instructor-led course before accessing the eTextbook in Pearson+. Use your instructor's link and follow the prompts to access your eTextbook in Pearson+. If you'd like to continue to access Revel content at the end of a term, purchase an eTextbook in Pearson+. With over 2,000 eTextbooks to choose from, you'll find the digital features you need to take your studying to the next level.

If you don’t see the eTextbook you need in Pearson+, you may be able to purchase it separately on Pearson.com.

Access Options and Payment

Pearson+ offers flexible access options for eTextbooks:

Fixed 6-Month Access: This option works like an eTextbook rental. You can choose to pay in 6 equal monthly payments or make one up-front payment. If you need your eTextbook for longer than 6 months, you can extend your access by going to the Manage access page in My account. Select Extend access before the initial 6-month access period ends. If you extend your access, we'll automatically charge you a fixed amount every month until you cancel. We will use your initial payment method (credit card, PayPal, or Apple Pay) to extend your access. To ensure your learning is uninterrupted each month, please keep your payment method up to date. To avoid the next payment charge, select Cancel access on the Manage access page in My account before your next scheduled payment date. If you purchased your eTextbook from Pearson directly, you can end your access and get a full refund within the first 14 days. Just visit My account and select Cancel and refund next to the eTextbook. Need to exchange your eTextbook but are near the end of your 6-month access term? If you purchased your eTextbook from Pearson directly, you can exchange it and continue for another 6 months with the new eTextbook. Sign in to Pearson+, go to My account and then select Exchange eTextbook.
Lifetime Access: This is a one-time purchase of an eTextbook for a set access term of 5 years. After checkout, you'll have access to your eTextbook for a set access term of 5 years. During this 5-year access term, you will have full web access to your eTextbook, as well as access through the Pearson+ mobile and desktop apps. After 5 years, you will no longer have access unless you have downloaded the title prior to the expiration of the 5-year term. If you have downloaded the title, you can continue to access it through our mobile and desktop apps. With lifetime access, eTextbooks can only be downloaded during the first 5-year period, and they can only be accessed through Pearson+ apps.

Access Codes

An access code is a unique 24-character code used to gain access to an eTextbook purchased at a campus bookstore. Access codes can be redeemed one time and cannot be shared between students. You can have more than one eTextbook at a time. You can have more than one eTextbook subscription. A separate access code is required for each eTextbook. Your eTextbook gives you access for 6 months (180 days). When your initial term has ended, you can purchase another access code from your campus store.

Leveraging Study Prep for Enhanced Learning

Study Prep is a video platform available in the Pearson+ app. It offers thousands of explanations, solutions, and practice problems in over 20 subjects to assist with homework and exam preparation. When you upload your syllabus, the videos are customized to your course, and tutors guide you through solutions. Plus, for some titles, interactive AI-powered videos and summaries are included. When you purchase a Study Prep subscription, you'll get unlimited access to all available subjects with various features. Pearson uses AI to support the creation of content.

Read also: Overview of Pearson Education

Key Features of Study Prep

Personalized Learning: Upload your syllabus to customize videos to your course.
Expert Guidance: Tutors provide step-by-step solutions to practice problems.
Comprehensive Coverage: Access explanations, solutions, and practice problems in over 20 subjects.

Purchasing Study Prep

Yes, you can purchase a Study Prep separately at any time. Visit the Study Prep page to learn about your purchase options.

Bundling eTextbooks and Study Prep

When you purchase Study Prep in a bundle together with an eTextbook for a 6-month access period, you're purchasing a 6-month access period for Study Prep in addition to the 6-month access for your eTextbook. Your 6-month access for Study Prep includes the full library of Study Prep video lessons, practice problems, and more. You can pay for the whole bundle in 6 equal monthly payments or just one up-front payment. If you need your eTextbook and/or Study Prep access for longer than 6 months, you can extend your access for either or both by going to the Manage access page in My account.

A lifetime access eTextbook + Study Prep bundle includes one eTextbook in Pearson+ with lifetime access, plus monthly access to the full library of Study Prep video lessons, practice problems, and more. You'll make just one up-front payment for your eTextbook access, and you’ll be charged a monthly recurring payment for Study Prep unless you cancel. You can cancel your Study Prep access by going to the Manage access page in My account.

Maximizing eTextbook Features for Effective Studying

Pearson eTextbooks offer a variety of features designed to enhance the learning experience. Here's how to use them effectively:

Highlighting and Note-Taking

Highlighting: From the book content, select (or press and hold) a word and drag, releasing at the end of the passage you want to highlight.
Adding Notes: [Optional] Select New note (pencil icon) to add a note associated with the highlight.
Reviewing Notes: To review a list of your book-based notes, select Notebook (notebook icon) from the navigation menu. Use the Notebook to help you study and prepare for tests.

Bookmarks

To see all of your bookmarks, from any book location, select Table of contents (table of contents icon) in the navigation menu and then go to the bookmarks tab. Your bookmarks are listed in chapter order.

Read also: About Pearson Education

Study Tools and Flashcards

Select Study tools (study tools icon) from the eTextbook navigation menu to view your study content and My decks. Enter a deck name in the Add to deck field and a term or question in the Front field.

Search Functionality

A contextual search feature is available in eTextbooks in Pearson+. Select a search result to jump to that content in the eTextbook, whether a glossary definition, content snippet, or other result. In some eTextbooks, you can play a video from the results area.

Searching Phrases: When searching on multiple words like atomic number, exact match results appear first followed by any matches to the individual terms, like atomic and number.
Filtering Search Results: After you enter a search term in some eTextbooks, you can filter the results to show matches of a particular content type only. You can filter by notes and highlights, chapters, media, figures, glossary, or content.
Searching by Location: You can also select any word in the eTextbook and search for it to find all the locations where it’s referenced. From an open page, select (or press and hold) a word and drag, releasing at the end of the word(s) you want to search.

Media and Interactives

It’s easy to track down videos and interactives in your eTextbook in Pearson+. Then, browse content in the Media key category. Or, enter terms in the search bar.

Display Settings

When you’re reading an eTextbook on your browser, select Display settings from the navigation menu to adjust font size, color contrast or show/hide highlights. The table of contents is available from wherever you are in an eTextbook.

Audio Support

Audio support (audiobook functionality) is available in some eTextbooks in Pearson+.

Availability of Pearson+

As of right now, Pearson+ is available in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Students in the US can purchase Pearson+ subscriptions on the Pearson+ site or on Pearson.com. Students in the UK can purchase Pearson+ products on Pearson.com. Pearson+ is not sold as a subscription in the UK. Students in Canada can purchase Pearson+ products on Pearson.com.

Additional Resources on Project MUSE

UPCC Book Collections on Project MUSE, launched in January 2012, offer book-length scholarship. A growing and changing collection of 260,000+ e-books in many different subject areas. The bottom of this screen provides links to open access books on the Project MUSE site. and U.K. scholarly presses (including Columbia, Cornell, Edinburgh, Fordham, Harvard, Manchester, NYU, Penn State, Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford, Yale, U. of California, Chicago, Hawai'i, Pennsylvania, Texas & Toronto), many published since 2000.

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