Tech Tuesday: Your College Experience Online

heather_halter
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John Gardner and Betsy Barefoot were some of the early innovators of the college success course. In keeping with that theme, the LaunchPad which accompanies the 13th edition of their text, Your College Experience, we include innovative ways to engage your students with the course content. As your Learning Solutions Specialist, let me take you on a tour of what’s available.

Each chapter contains an interactive self-assessment quiz, which gives students an opportunity to reflect and learn more about themselves and the chapter topics, providing targeted advice to help them develop a personalized learning plan.

Multiple-choice Case Study Quizzes ask students to apply practical strategies and concepts discussed in each chapter. Students receive instant, helpful feedback after each response to help them contemplate the scenarios further.

My personal favorite resource is our student voices videos, which shows real college students sharing their experiences. Accompanied by a set of open-response questions, two Video Activities per unit allow students to reflect on course topics and deepen their thinking, as well as encourages application of helpful strategies discussed to their own lives. You can talk and talk and talk about how important time management is, but it might not really hit home until they hear it from their peers!

All of these live alongside an interactive ebook, instructor resources, and LearningCurve Adaptive Quizzing.

If you’d like to learn more about how LaunchPad can help enhance your course, sign up for a one-on-one session with your Learning Solutions Specialist: https://macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/event/training-demos/LaunchPad/Demos

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john_gardner
Author
Author

Hello Heather:

Thank you for sharing this with me. And I am sharing with my fellow author, Betsy Barefoot. If we can help you in your work please feel free to contact us.

John

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John N. Gardner

Chief Executive Officer and Chair

John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education

Mailing: PO Box 72

Physical: 123 E Main St., Suite 201

Brevard, NC 28712-0072

Phone: 828-885-6014

gardner@jngi.org<mailto:gardner@jngi.org>

www.jngi.org<http://www.jngi.org/>;

John N. Gardner Blog<http://www.jngi.org/blog>

Founding Director and Senior Fellow,

National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science

University of South Carolina

john_gardner
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Author

Thank you Heather. If you get any takers feel free to indicate that Betsy and I would always be happy to “talk” real time with any one who had interest and/or correspond. You would be welcome to provide our contact info. If you ever want our take on anything, just let us know.

Thanks very much.

John

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John N. Gardner

Chief Executive Officer and Chair

John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education

Mailing: PO Box 72

Physical: 123 E Main St., Suite 201

Brevard, NC 28712-0072

Phone: 828-885-6014

gardner@jngi.org<mailto:gardner@jngi.org>

www.jngi.org<http://www.jngi.org/>;

John N. Gardner Blog<http://www.jngi.org/blog>

Founding Director and Senior Fellow,

National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Library and Information Science

University of South Carolina

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About the Author
John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to students as an author. The recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence, John has over forty years of experience directing and teaching in the most widely emulated first-year seminar in the country, the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia. John is universally recognized as one of the country's leading educators for his role in initiating and orchestrating an international reform movement to improve the beginning college experience, a concept he coined as "the first-year experience." He is the founding executive director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at USC, as well as the Policy Center on the First Year of College and the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (www.jngi.org), both based in Brevard, N.C.