Are You Making Waves and
Shaking Up Your Curriculum
Moving More Toward Digital?
2012 WBEA Conference
Friday, February 17, 2-3 p.m. Room SEQUOIA 2
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Are you encouraged to use digital content in your class?
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HOW are you integrating digital content into your classroom?
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What are some of the trends you are seeing with eBooks?
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Is anyone currently using eBooks in class?
Engagement
Tracker
E-Book
Digital
Advantage
Learning Resources
Efficacy Study of CourseMate
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Conducted in FALL term of 2010
17 Instructors
Included 25 classes/sections
584 students
University level
Student Perspective of CourseMate
Student Sound Bites…
“Love the online book,
it really helped me
because I ended up
losing my book. I also
loved the practice
quizzes and
essays…they really
helped me”
“I like how you can move at
your own pace and redo the
tests and quizzes as many
times as you want.”
“Flashcards are
awesome! They
saved me time from
having to write down
all the vocab”
“Easier than using
the printed book”
“Gave me a different way to
study the chapter, plus it
gave me immediate
feedback and I didn’t have
to wait on my teacher to
grade it over the weekend.”
“It gives you other ways to explain the information than my
instructor…..uses creative ideas to show the material such as
diagrams, and it’s easy to use.”
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Faculty Perspective of CourseMate
Teacher Sound Bites….
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“It’s a good tool to track student’s progress. Students who used it
performed very well in my class”
“The student has a choice of selecting tool(s) for their particular
learning style.”
“Presents materials in a different fashion than me lecturing…very
hi tech therefore student oriented”
“The Suite of study tools is better than any I have seen in the
market”
“Gives immediate feedback to the student because often I cannot
do that with such a jam-packed class”
Conclusions…
• 94% of students were VERY SATISFIED with CourseMate
• Ds, Fs, and Incompletes went down 14%
• Homework submission went up 11%
35% said CourseMate kept them from dropping the course.
CourseMate fall 2010 efficacy study
Interactive eBook
Bookmarks
You can create a bookmark for a specific page or section within an eBook to enable
easy reference back to content at a later time. The Reference Panel offers you a
quick means to access bookmarked content or to manage your existing bookmarks.
Highlights
You can create highlights within eBook content for future reference. You may
choose to highlight a word, a sentence and even an entire paragraph. The Reference
Panel offers you an easy means to access the eBook content you have highlighted.
Notes
You can create notes for additional reference within eBook content. For easy note
management, you can choose to color code your notes. Once a note is created, you
can easily access your notes within the eBook content from the Reference Panel. In
addition, you may choose to print your notes along with the eBook content.
Other Features
Engagement
Tracker
E-Book
Digital
Advantage
Learning Resources
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CourseMate
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Interactive eBook
Crossword Puzzles
PowerPoints
Flashcards
Glossary
Interactive Activities
Learning Objectives
Net Bookmarks
Quizzes
Interactive Study Tools
Videos
ENGAGEMENT TRACKER: This intuitive, online reporting tool makes it easy to evaluate
use of study resources, monitor time-on-task and track progress for the entire class or for
individual students.
Go live into SSO
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CengageNOW
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CNOW
 Enhanced Interactive eBook
 Auto graded homework
 Personalized study plan – Diagnostic tools with Pre-Test, Customized
Study Plan, and Post-Test activities for each chapter, including
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Text material
Learning Objectives
Ask the Expert videos
Powerpoint slides
Crossword puzzles
Flashcards
Net Bookmarks
Quizzing games
Videos
 Testbank (ExamView)
 Includes chapter and unit tests
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A Powerful Course Management
tool
Offers Robust Instructor Control &
flexibility
Online Homework Tool & eBook
Pre-Test, Personalized Study Plan,
Post-Test
Ties directly to the Contemporary
Econ Text and the Economics and
Personal Finance Text
SAM with MindTap
• Integrated Digital Book (within the
new MindTap Reader platform):
Everything a student needs to
succeed in your course is now in
one place - SAM!
• The new integrated digital book
option provides students with all the
steps and information they need to
complete their assignments without
a bulky textbook to carry around.
• It also includes the series-specific
Premium Video content, providing
additional video reinforcement.
What is SAM?
• Since 1998, SAM (Skills Assessment Manager) has been the #1 testing
and training tool for Microsoft Office.
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Performance-based exam and training simulations for Microsoft Office
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Live in-the-application, auto-graded, project-based assessment for
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
Web deliverable
• Internet Explorer and Flash Player required
• Also compatible with Firefox and Safari for Mac users
• Flexible scheduling options
• Numerous detailed reports for instructors and students
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SAM Assessment
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Simulated performance-based exam simulations (tasks)
◦ Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Windows XP, Windows Vista,
Internet Explorer, Outlook
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Thousands of objective-based questions
Exams can be created…
◦ By textbook chapter
◦ Picking and choosing exam tasks
◦ Picking and choosing objective-based questions
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Detailed Study Guide reports map back to Course
Technology’s Office textbooks
SAM Training
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Simulated, interactive training scenarios
◦ Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint
◦ Multiple training methods address different learning
styles
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Training assignments can be created…
◦ By textbook chapter
◦ Picking and choosing training scenarios
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Detailed Study Guide reports map back to
Course Technology’s Office textbooks
SAM Projects
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Live in the application, auto-graded, project-based
assessment
◦ Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access
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Project assignments include
◦ Textbook end-of-chapter projects
◦ Mirror or “2nd scenario” projects *
◦ Capstone projects *
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Anti-cheating detection
Fully integrated into the SAM “system”
Detailed Study Guide reports map back to Course
Technology’s Office textbooks
What’s new with SAM 2010?
SAM Path
Integrated Textbook Solution
– MindTap Reader
Grade Book!
SAM MindTap
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Digital integrated textbook within SAM
Contains additional videos specific for each Series
Available for the following titles:
SAM Grade Book
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Simplifies class administration
◦ Instructors can now weight, modify, and add grades
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View section outcomes at a glance
◦ Quickly see section results
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Flexible export
◦ Can pick and choose columns they want to export to more closely
align with their LMS grade book
SAM Assessment, Training, Projects
You can highlight text (choose a color); you can have it
read the text to you; you can add a note.
Check out www.cengage.com/ct/emerge to learn more!
3 Versions
• Emerge with Computers
• Emerge with Computer
Concepts
• Emerge with Computer
Literacy (IC3)
Ride the Waves of Digital Literacy…
www.cengage.com/ct/digital-literacy
http://www.cengage.com/school/coursecare/
http://www.cengage.com/focus/
Thank you so much for your attention and your
participation during this session!
Trish Bobst
trish.bobst@cengage.com
National Curriculum Specialist
Course Technology | Delmar | Gale | South-Western