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What Tetris Taught Me About Flexible Teaching

Adam Barragato is Assistant Director of Partnerships at Purdue University and former Teaching and Learning Consultant The game of Tetris has more in common with flexible teaching than you might...

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My Favorite MindTap Feature: The Progress App

My favorite MindTap feature is the Progress App. Within the Progress app, you will find a gradebook with powerful data about engagement and class progress. Students can also view their learning...

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Getting Started with Active Learning Strategies [eBook]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bailey Hull is a writer at Cengage. She’s passionate about equitable education, cozy soups and improv comedy. What is active learning? Broadly speaking, active learning strategies are activities that...

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Professor Streamlines Course with MindTap [SUCCESS STORY]

Reading Time: < 1 minute The technology used to facilitate online learning can sometimes create a lot of extra work for instructors. When Professor Alex Mata started teaching Communication Studies classes online, she found herself...

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Top 10 College Study Tips [CHECKLIST]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Bailey Hull is a writer at Cengage. She’s passionate about equitable education, cozy soups and improv comedy. Some college study tips suggest that students devote two hours of study...

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How One Instructor Shaped Her Corequisite Course [SUCCESS STORY]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Instructor Tracy Zanolini’s Precalculus book wasn’t made to fit her corequisite course. The text’s content required students to have all prerequisites and skills mastered on the first day of class....

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Instructor Promotes Flexible Learning [SUCCESS STORY]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Flexible learning was the name of the game for Assistant Professor Karen Landay. Her students needed versatile textbook access to maintain a consistent course structure. On top of that, the...

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The Grading Tools That Saved One Professor Time [CASE STUDY]

Reading Time: < 1 minute Efficient grading tools and easy-to-build assignments are essential for any professor—just ask Dr. Miren Ivankovic. He found himself spending too much time manually grading and creating assignments, and not enough...

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