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 […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe past few years have been rife with challenges for institutional leaders. From changing health guidelines to quarantines to critical racial justice issues being raised on campus, administrators and professors have been in a constant state of heightened alert. The toll on faculty is increasingly clear. Burnout. Compassion fatigue. Unmet mental health needs for students […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesFree response questions (or open response questions) are a valuable tool to help you understand your students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills. However, they present a challenge for professors when it comes to grading, especially for large class sizes. While many questions in WebAssign are automatically graded, if you decide to incorporate free response questions […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesDr. Kajsa Larson is a Spanish professor at Northern Kentucky University In the early stages of designing my course, it was vital for me to find a product that had robust technological features. I needed something that would allow students full access to the course materials that they were studying on one, unified platform. […]
