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Dinner & Digital Learning with Aplia, CourseMate, Questia & Write Experience

Hours: 1.5

Do you want to engage and retain students? Do you want students to improve their learning outcomes and quality of work? This session is for faculty of English, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, who want to explore Aplia, CourseMate, Questia & Write Experience. Data indicates that students who write more often, and utilize prescriptive feedback provided by Write Experience, have the greatest improvement in writing scores. Learn to navigate your courses digital component to improve student retention and success with this hand on training! Aplia, an online learning solution, is dedicated to improving learning by increasing student effort and engagement. Interactive chapter assignments are written for specific textbooks Detailed explanations for every question keep students learning All assignments are automatically graded Scores are instantly entered into your Aplia gradebook Tutorials in select subjects help students overcome deficiencies in prerequisite material CourseMate brings course concepts to life with interactive learning, study, and exam preparation tools that support the printed textbook. Watch student comprehension soar as your class works with the printed textbook and the textbook-specific website. CourseMate includes interactive teaching and learning tools, Engagement Tracker, and an integrated eBook: Interactive Teaching and Learning Tools Quizzes Flashcards Videos and more. These assets enable students to review for tests, prepare for class, and address the needs of students' varied learning styles. Questia is an inexpensive tool that helps students navigate through the research process. Questia is the webs premier online collection of copyrighted fiction and nonfiction books, academic journals, and research periodicals for students. Save time on research papers and projects with access to top peer-reviewed sources and powerful integrated tools that store, manage, and organize your work online. Research and write with confidence: Choose from over 6,500 librarian-selected topics Accurately cite sources and build bibliographies Format research papers in seven different writing styles Easily search articles, highlight texts, and take notes Write Experience is a tool that provides feedback to students writing. Write Experience is proven to improve writing ability and quality of writing. Cengage Learnings Write Experience is a technology product that allows you to assess written communication skills without adding to your workload. Instructors in all areas have told us its important that students can write effectively in order to communicate and think critically. Through an exclusive partnership with a technology company, Cengage Learnings Write Experience allows you to do just that! This new product utilizes artificial intelligence to not only score student writing instantly and accurately, but also provide students with detailed revision goals and feedback on their writing to help them improve. Write Experience is the first product designed and created specifically for the higher education market through an exclusive agreement with McCann Associates, and powered by e-Write IntelliMetric Within. IntelliMetric is the gold standard for automated scoring of writing and is used to score the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) analytical writing assessment. Lisa Volle will be the presenter.


 
Date Time Location Presenter
 
02/28/20136:30pm-8:00pmHBC 301.10Christina A Michura 

 
 

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