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” […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWebAssign provides instructors with an easy-to-use online learning platform, empowering over 1.5 million students at 3,500+ institutions to succeed in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Astronomy and Engineering. Many instructors find that WebAssign saves them time with pre-built homework assignments, resources and automatic grading. However, they don’t always leverage the other course resources and support available with […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesDiego Mendez-Carbajo is a Senior Economic Education Specialist at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. This article is based on his presentation at the 2021 Economics Teaching Conference. These are his opinions and not those of his employer. Over the last few decades, the professional practice of Economics has markedly increased the volume […]
