Topic: Extend the Learning Experience of
Your Students Beyond Classroom
Teaching and Learning Innovation Symposium
Presented by Aris Lau
7 June 2010
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AGENDA
• McGraw-Hill Approach
• Connect
• LearnSmart Diagnostic Learning Plan
• Robust E-book
• Tegrity
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What do instructors need to succeed?
We listened to thousands
of your peers.
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Importance of
outcomes, assessment
Student study
styles
Instructors
Student preparedness,
motivation
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Innovation that
enables success
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What do students need to succeed?
We listened to thousands
of students all over
the country.
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Digital natives
Different
study styles
Tie to real world
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New ways
to engage
Students
Bite (and byte)
sized content
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Innovations to meet evolving needs – course needs
• Connecting instructors and
students with content,
resources…and each other
• Facilitating deeper, more
immersive learning
• Enabling success in the
classroom and real world
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McGraw-Hill CONNECT
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www.mcgraw-hillconnect.com
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What is Connect?
• McGraw-Hill created Connect to help professors
better engage with their college students and to
connect students to the information and customized
resources they need to master a subject.
• Currently available across 18 disciplines including
economics, psychology, management, business
statistics, chemistry and biology
• Platform will be expanded in coming months to
include more features and encompass more
disciplines
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What’s the content in Connect?
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Homework and Quizzes
Tutoring / PLP
Student
eBook
Lecture Capture
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Diagnostic and Personalized
Learning Plan
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What is LearnSmart?
• LearnSmart is a learning system developed in
partnership with Area9
• LearnSmart’s Intelligent Self-Assessment is a Guided
Path for Success (GPS) for students
– creates individualized learning path
– offers individualized assessment
– helps students attain mastery of content
– recommends remediation (e.g. eBook, activities, etc)
– assigned or used as a study tool
– results recorded in grade book
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Learn Smart Video
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Key Advantages of LearnSmart?
• Diagnose: Student practice captures and reveals
learning progress.
• Remediate: Personal learning paths automatically
generate appropriate content based upon student
knowledge level.
• Flexibility: Students access LearnSmart anytime and
from anywhere using browsers or mobile devices such as
the iPhone or iTouch.
• Success: LearnSmart improves student performance
and retention.
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Connect eBook
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Connect eBook Benefits
• Integrated, printable eBook allowing for anytime,
anywhere access to textbook.
• Engage your students by assigning sections of
eBook as readings with audio files, animations &
videos embedded with eBook.
• Guide your students on where to study by sharing
your eBook highlights, bookmarks, figure and
animations.
• Powerful search function on key concepts.
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eBook as Web Assignment
Instructor can
assigned it as reading
assignment
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eBook as Web Assignment
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eBook with Integrated Animations
Embedded videos &
animations in eBook
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eBook -> Add highlight, note & bookmark
Add Highlight
Add Bookmark
Add Note
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eBook a Media Rich Resource
Engage your students by
sharing animations or
images in class
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eBook -> Instructor Note Sharing
My Notebook
Instructors have ability to share
notes, highlights, bookmarks,
figure and animations with
students
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Lecture Capture
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What is Tegrity?
• Tegrity makes class time available all the time by
making every class on campus available for replay by
every student – anytime, anywhere.
• As you conduct your normal class lecture, Connect
records and indexes your slides, audio, and any other
applications you run on your computer… like
spreadsheets or video.
• Educators know that the more students can see, hear,
and experience a class, the better they learn.
• With patented Tegrity “search anything” technology,
students instantly recall key class moments for replay
online, or on iPods and mobile devices.
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Search Lectures by Topic
Example: “Market demand”
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In Summary …
• Connect is a full learning and assessment solution that was
designed and developed through observational research.
• Connect improves students’ performance by making the
learning process more efficient and more focused through
the use of engaging assignable content and integrated tools.
• Connect saves faculty time through an intuitive easy to use
interface that exposes all the course management features
when you need them and through prebuilt assignments that
instructors can modify/add to rather than build from scratch.
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• It is more than a Course Management System, it is a complete
learning management system. It integrates seamlessly into a
CMS (Blackboard/Web CT or Angel) or can be used
standalone.
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Reviews : Connect Story—Easy?
–The ease of which I could set up assignments, and the way
it is “Simple in design and is easy to use. The fact that you
can assign problems from the back of the text book…”
–“integrated fully with the text.”
–“… it allowed me to give homework assignments based on
the text and that the homework was graded automatically.”
–“…Marie likes how clean and simple the layout is in
Connect….she likes having the ability to add her own
questions.
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Reviews: Connect Story—Effective?
–I think the instant feedback is essential for students.”
– “I can give them more practice than I would ever have
time to grade myself.”
- “It has been great help to save my time to prepare
homework.”
- *100% of surveyed Users said Connect helped their
students’ overall understanding.
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Reviews: The Connect Story—Reliable?
–“Not a single one of my students contacted me
with questions or concerns…that indicates that
the program was well designed.”
–“ …straightforward. None of my students ran
into problems…”
–“The student interface was clear and logically
presented. Students communicated no
problems associated with navigating through the
system.”
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Schools who have used CONNECT in Asia …
• Singapore
– Temasek Polytechnic of Singapore (Connect Psychology)
• Malaysia
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University Malaya (Class Test, Connect Finance)
Universiti Utara Malaysia (Connect Econs)
University Sains Malaysia, Penang (Connect Econs)
Monash University (Connect Psychology)
• Thailand
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King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology (Connect Lucas)
Stanford International University (Connect Lucas)
International School Bangkok (Connect Lucas)
St John University (Connect Lucas)
Assumption University (Class Test, Connect Marketing)
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Schools who have used CONNECT in Asia …
• Hong Kong/Macau
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HK Baptist University (Connect Lucas)
Macau University of Science and Technology (Connect Econs)
Lingnan University (Connect Accounting)
HK Shue Yan College (Class Test, Connect Econs)
• Japan
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University of Maryland (Connect Lucas)
Sophia University (Connect Lucas)
Kyushu University (Connect Lucas)
International Christian University (Connect Lucas)
Human Int'l Universities & Colleges Consortium (Connect Lucas)
Lakeland College (Connect Lucas)
• Korea
– Korea University (Connect Lucas)
– Kyung Hee University (Connect Lucas)
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It’s never been easier to connect your
students with their coursework online
LESS MANAGING
MORE TEACHING
GREATER LEARNING
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