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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Gamification in the Classroom: Making Business Law Exciting

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Reading Time: 3 minutesBy: Elizabeth Cameron, Professor of Law, Cybersecurity & Management at Alma College   How exciting it is to be a college Business Law professor in 2021! We can try new approaches to make learning fun for our students, which means teaching is a blast! Teaching Generation Z students requires creativity and engaged learning. Students love […]

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The Neuroscience of Unlearning

The Neuroscience of Unlearning

Reading Time: 7 minutesDr. Jeff D. Borden is a professor, learning design expert, Executive Director of the Institute for Inter-Connected Education and the Chief Academic Officer at Campus.   Until I was 18, I completely misunderstood a commonly used idiom. My dad is a pastor and so I heard a lot of anecdotes and analogies as a boy. […]

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Understanding JavaScript Closures

Understanding JavaScript Closures

Reading Time: 4 minutesPatrick Carey is a Cengage author and presenter and has authored or co-authored over 20 academic and trade texts for the software industry.   Closures are one of the most important and most misunderstood concepts by students in JavaScript programming. If your students are in a job interview, there is a good chance they will have […]

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