Global education company Cengage Learning has announced the expansion of its EMEA-specific interactive learning programme for MindTap, adding to its existing 450-strong range of customisable, cloud-based online courses with two new titles.
The MindTap solution involves a powerful combination of personalised content and on-the-go access which encourages interactivity, increases student engagement and improves learning outcomes.
MindTap supports lecturers by enabling them to create a personalised learning experience for their students by blending course material, lectures, videos and documents with eBook content to create a fully personalised learning path accessible anytime, anywhere – on desktops, laptops, tablets or mobile phones.
Students' performance, activities, and comprehension can then be tracked in real-time, allowing opportunities for early intervention and helping to facilitate a consistent approach when team teaching. The summary of student scores can be shared with students keen to see their current standing within a class, at the lecturer's discretion.
As well as receiving this instant feedback, MindTap also supports lecturers and students with a calendar for documenting due dates for assignments and readings and a week by week view for managing workloads. Other key functions include a ReadSpeaker text-to-speech functionality, gradebook functionality and analytics.
Designed to work alongside, or independently of, a wide range of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs), MindTap can also be used for summative assessment.
At its core is MindTap Reader, an e-Book with interactive study tools such as book marking, annotations, note sharing, highlighting and print options. Students can navigate through a customised dashboard of readings, assignments, and other course information.
The new EMEA MindTap courses accompany two market leading titles in their respective fields. Management and Cost Accounting by Colin Drury, and Economics by N.Gregory Mankiw and Mark P. Taylor are widely used across higher education institutions (HEIs) on management accounting and introductory economics courses.
Now its ninth edition, Drury's Management and Cost Accounting is widely recognised as the definitive text on management and cost accounting for over 25 years. Drury has been praised for providing a balanced coverage of both the theory and practice of management accounting. This comprehensive text is used by students on 1 and 2 year courses, on professional accounting courses and by students taking cost and management accounting for the first time at postgraduate level.
Mankiw/Taylor Economics is established as one of the leading economic principles texts in the UK and Europe. The popularity of the text is attributed to its focus on the Ten Principles of Economics, reminding students of the foundation for all economics, and also providing valuable tools to get students to 'think like an economist' so it becomes a natural way of application to their personal lives and studies.
Cengage Learning recently launched the availability of the iOS and Android compatible MindTap Mobile app. Developed based on student feedback, MindTap Mobile allows students to access many features of the MindTap e-learning platform directly from their smartphones anytime, anywhere. The app includes English-language content but is available in all regions.
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