Reading Time: < 1 minuteEmployability is a hot topic in education right now, and with good reason. The ultimate goal is for our students to have the skills to get and keep a job in their chosen field. Soft skills are not often the focus in a college curriculum, but these skills are just as important as functional skills […]
Reading Time: 5 minutesIt has been painful for several years to see the retailer Sears disintegrate before our eyes. The company did not adjust well to changes in its environment, and it has paid a steep price. Whereas WalMart and Best Buy have figured out various roles for themselves, Sears has not done so yet. How the mighty […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
