Reading Time: < 1 minuteJames Lang, author of the book Small Teaching, briefly describes how he uses a shared document with his students to that he can save time in the grading process. […]
James Lang On How a Shared Document Can Speed Up Grading
Increasing Student Engagement with MindTap to Achieve Better Outcomes and Increase Retention
Reading Time: 2 minutesAuthor: Name Joseph Charleman Joseph Charleman is the Chair of the Surgical Tech and Processing Department at Berkeley College in NJ. His department uses MindTap integrated in Blackboard program-wide including Surgical Tech, Pharmacology, and Microbiology. Joe has seen a tremendous improvement in their retention – an increase from 20 to 50% over the last few […]
The Pathbrite Portfolio App Integrated in MindTap for Student Resume-Building and Accreditation Reporting
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this blog post you will read about how Sandy Owen has successfully used the Pathbrite app in MindTap to help her students create a portfolio that they can take on job interviews for early childhood teaching positions. This can easily be applied to other fields, for example, business students using Pathbrite to build a […]
Digital Assets And The Estate/Gift Tax
Reading Time: 4 minutesContributing Author: William A Raabe One aspect of estate planning that will be of interest to your students is the treatment of a decedent’s digital assets upon death, as to taxes but also just in determining the proper access to and ownership of those assets after a death. Start with this question: If you were to die […]
James Lang on the Minute Paper Teaching Technique
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJames Lang, author of Small Teaching, spoke at one of our Empowered Educator webinars. In this audio clip he describes how faculty can use the “Minute Paper” small teaching technique to help students improve their recall of what was previous learned and which will better set them up for what they are about to learn. […]
Google Presentations Integrate with MindTap
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDid you know a Google Slides presentation can easily be placed inside your MindTap course? There’s an easy way to do this: simply link your Google Drive account with MindTap. After you’ve done this you can add the presentation to your MindTap class by clicking the Add/Create button, then click on “Activity” and then “Google […]
A Deeper Dive into Hot Assets
Reading Time: 5 minutesContributing Author: James H. Boyd A Deeper Dive into Hot Assets One aspect of partnership taxation creates much of the complexity of Subchapter K: the idea that ordinary income treatment must be preserved and allocated to the partner to whom that income accrued. This ordinary income preservation concept applies to distribution of assets from a partnership, liquidation of a partnership interest under § 736, and sale of a […]
Ice Breakers and First Day of Class Activities
Reading Time: 4 minutesPlanning for the start of the semester is on my mind. I’ve always believed the first day of class sets the tone for the semester. I teach large sections of gen-ed history and for the fall, most of my students will be freshmen. This semester, I’m planning to use a short, get-acquainted activity so students […]