My Favorite MindTap Feature: Highlighting and Notetaking

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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 […]

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How to Apply the Carry-Out Method to Your Course Content

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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 […]

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More Time Teaching, Less Time Grading with CengageNOWv2 [CASE STUDY]

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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 […]

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6 Ways to Identify if Students Are Using Text Spinners to Plagiarize

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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, […]

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5 Ways COVID-19 Changed My Career Plans as a Student

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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 […]

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2021 Graduate Employability Report [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteBailey Hull is a writer at Cengage. She’s passionate about equitable education, cozy soups and improv comedy.   Are college students learning skills that will help them find a job after graduation? In March of 2021, Cengage conducted a survey on graduate employability, education ROI and degree stigma among 2- and 4-year college graduates to […]

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The Cengage Unlimited Effect [INFOGRAPHIC]

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAffordability is one of the greatest challenges that college students face, and the high cost of textbooks and other course materials is a top stressor. To try and offset the price, many students try to pirate free alternatives, delay purchases or simply don’t purchase their assigned materials at all. That’s why Cengage Unlimited was created […]

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