1 / 36

Presented by Aris Lau

Topic: Extend the Learning Experience of Your Students Beyond Classroom Teaching and Learning Innovation Symposium. Presented by Aris Lau. 7 June 2010. 2. AGENDA McGraw-Hill Approach Connect LearnSmart Diagnostic Learning Plan Robust E-book Tegrity. 3. 3.

guenevere-adams
Download Presentation

Presented by Aris Lau

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Topic: Extend the Learning Experience of Your Students Beyond Classroom Teaching and Learning Innovation Symposium Presented by Aris Lau 7 June 2010

  2. 2 AGENDA • McGraw-Hill Approach • Connect • LearnSmart Diagnostic Learning Plan • Robust E-book • Tegrity

  3. 3 3 What do instructors need to succeed? We listened to thousands of your peers.

  4. 4 Importance of outcomes, assessment Student study styles Instructors Innovation that enables success Student preparedness, motivation

  5. 5 What do students need to succeed? We listened to thousands of students all over the country.

  6. 6 Digital natives New ways to engage Different study styles Students Bite (and byte) sized content Tie to real world

  7. 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

  8. McGraw-Hill CONNECT

  9. www.mcgraw-hillconnect.com

  10. 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

  11. 16 16 16 What’s the content in Connect?

  12. Homework and Quizzes Tutoring / PLP Student eBook Lecture Capture

  13. 27 27 27 Diagnostic and Personalized Learning Plan

  14. 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

  15. Learn Smart Video

  16. 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.

  17. 39 39 39 Connect eBook

  18. 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.

  19. eBook as Web Assignment Instructor can assigned it as reading assignment

  20. eBook as Web Assignment

  21. eBook with Integrated Animations Embedded videos & animations in eBook

  22. eBook -> Add highlight, note & bookmark Add Highlight Add Bookmark Add Note

  23. eBook a Media Rich Resource Engage your students by sharing animations or images in class

  24. eBook -> Instructor Note Sharing My Notebook Instructors have ability to share notes, highlights, bookmarks, figure and animations with students

  25. 47 47 47 Lecture Capture

  26. 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.

  27. Search Lectures by Topic Example: “Market demand” Menu 

  28. 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.

  29. 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.

  30. 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.

  31. 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.

  32. 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.”

  33. Schools who have used CONNECT in Asia … • Singapore • Temasek Polytechnic of Singapore (Connect Psychology) • Malaysia • University Malaya (Class Test, Connect Finance) • Universiti Utara Malaysia (Connect Econs) • University Sains Malaysia, Penang (Connect Econs) • Monash University (Connect Psychology) • Thailand • 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)

  34. Schools who have used CONNECT in Asia … • Hong Kong/Macau • 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 • 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)

  35. It’s never been easier to connect your students with their coursework online LESS MANAGING MORE TEACHING GREATER LEARNING

  36. End

More Related