Reading Time: < 1 minuteFlexible 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 book needed to allow them to fit school in around other obligations. So, Karen integrated her Cengage eTextbook into her campus Learning Management System (LMS). […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEfficient 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 time nurturing and engaging his students. That’s when he turned to MindTap. With the pre-made assignments and grading tools in MindTap, Dr. Ivankovic was able […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesJody Small is an Emmy Award-winning writer-producer who films stories about students and educators at community colleges and universities around the country Several years ago, The Hope Center for College, Community and Justice at Temple University in Philadelphia created an annual survey known as the #RealCollege Survey to check in on “basic needs security” […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow do I love MindTap? Let me count the ways. While using MindTap over the last 3 years, I’ve fallen in love with multiple aspects of the digital learning platform. While I could talk for hours on the differences between publisher platforms, today’s topic will be my favorite MindTap features: highlighting the eBook and adding […]
Reading Time: 6 minutesAdam Barragato is Assistant Director of Partnerships at Purdue University and former Teaching and Learning Consultant I never liked eating carry-out growing up. My mom and dad would often go out to dinner and not invite me (for good reasons). Still, they would always ask if I wanted them to bring home carry-out, and […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs an Assistant Professor of Business Statistics at California State University, Sinjini Mitra spent hours manually grading student assignments. Due to the amount of labor involved, some colleagues within her department stopped assigning graded homework. That was, however, until she discovered CengageNOWv2 for Business Statistics! The platform not only eliminated Mitra’s grading time, allowing her […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesAudrey Wick is an English professor and Cengage Faculty Partner Maintaining academic integrity in higher education is an ongoing challenge. Instructors must be vigilant when it comes to standards in their courses, no matter the modality or subject. When it comes to written work, however, we need to practice extra vigilance to curb plagiarism, […]
Reading Time: 4 minutesXilian Sansoucy is a student at Northeastern University and former Cengage intern The reality of working from home has changed how some students view work or the type of work they want to pursue. Being a Northeastern student during the pandemic, I have experienced the migration to working from home while on co-op. One […]
