Reading Time: 3 minutesAudrey Wick is an English professor and Cengage Faculty Partner Writing matters. Throughout a student’s higher education career, written work will be assigned in a variety of disciplines. This may take the form of personal essays, research assignments, free response exam questions, media projects, and more. Assignments such as these help students on their […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJohn Kennedy is a writer at Cengage who wants to help make teaching and learning easier for everyone. When he isn’t writing, he’s likely strumming a guitar, revving up a motorcycle or taking in a nice view. For a student to be successful in college, it takes more than just hard work. Being prepared […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesColleen Zajac is a Senior Copywriter at Cengage with a zest for learning. She loves rock climbing, mountain biking and coffee—not necessarily in that order. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 84% of undergrads had their classes transition to online in 2020 due to the pandemic. However, in a Lumina-Gallup survey conducted […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesColleen Zajac is a Senior Copywriter at Cengage with a zest for learning. She loves rock climbing, mountain biking and coffee—not necessarily in that order. March is Women’s History Month, when we celebrate extraordinary women for their accomplishments and invaluable contributions throughout American history. This includes the many women who made significant advancements across […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteProfessor Jamie Loggains and her students both needed their time back. She taught three to five classes on top of her other responsibilities. They were working adult students with their own lives outside the classroom. But after incorporating MindTap for Health Care into her classroom, Professor Loggains found that her students loved the auto-graded feedback […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesDr. Ashley Hall is an adjunct instructor at Abilene Christian University While you can spend plenty of time crafting an engaging curriculum for your students, they’ll only be engaged if they actually attend your course. Some instructors may opt to institute a course attendance policy. But enforcing it may be difficult in the COVID […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteProfessor Daniel Rhem noticed a majority of his Business Law Course students weren’t engaging with his traditional course assignments. He needed fresh, meaningful measures that would spark student engagement, increase participation in case problems and enhance critical-thinking skills. Professor Rhem found all that and more with MindTap. Using MindTap, students became motivated—they actively prepared for […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesBryan Hochstein is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Alabama When I was a doctoral student and coordinator of a large Marketing class, a Cengage representative showed MindTap to our instructional team — and we weren’t in favor of it. First, we disliked the idea of educators “spoon feeding” or “tricking” […]
