Digital Solutions from McGraw-Hill Education

Digital Solutions from McGraw-Hill Education Making each learning moment more engaging, efficient and effective.

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Teaching and learning are part art, part science.

Every day educators bring passion, dedication and expertise to help students achieve success.

At McGraw-Hill Education, we help drive results by delivering technology that harnesses an understanding of how the mind works to make each learning moment more engaging, efficient and effective.

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McGraw-Hill Education is a Learning Science company. What does it mean?

Learning Science is our approach to improving outcomes.

Being a Learning Science Company means we research and study how learning happens.

Based on this, we develop methods to make the learning process easier and more effective.

We apply this knowledge to building tools that deliver results!

Our goal isn’t just to help students learn; it’s to help students learn better and succeed.

How do we do this?

proven content

So, we combine:

Having cool technology isn’t enough to truly improve learning.

a deep understanding of how students learn

innovative technology.

The result is engaged students and better outcomes!

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Educators McGraw-Hill Education delivers engaging, adaptive and personalized solutions that improve performance and results. We combine proven, research-based content with the best emerging digital technologies to guide assessment, teaching and learning to achieve the best possible outcome for students, lecturers and institutions. We’re committed to building successful learning solutions that make it easy for students to learn.

Adaptive Learning Adaptive technology uses continual assessment and artificial intelligence to personalize each individual student learning experience and identify their strengths and weaknesses.

Overview LearnSmart Advantage® is a series of adaptive learning products fueled by LearnSmart®, the most widely used and intelligent adaptive learning resource proven to improve learning since 2009.

Developed to deliver demonstrable results in boosting grades, increasing course retention and strengthening memory recall, the LearnSmart Advantage series spans the entire learning process from course preparation to providing the first adaptive reading experience found only in SmartBook®.

Distinguishing what students know from what they don’t, and honing in on concepts they are most likely to forget, each product in the series helps students study smarter and retain more knowledge.

A smarter learning experience for students coupled with valuable reporting tools for lecturers is available across hundreds of course areas. LearnSmart Advantage is advancing learning like no other products in higher education today.

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SmartBook® is the first and only adaptive reading experience available today.

Distinguishing what a student knows from what they don’t, and honing in on concepts they are most likely to forget, SmartBook personalizes content for each student in a continuously adapting reading experience.

Reading is no longer a passive and linear experience, but an engaging and dynamic one where students are more likely to master and retain important concepts, and come to class better prepared. Valuable reports provide instructors insight as to how students are progressing through textbook content, and are useful for shaping in-class time or assessment.

How does this SmartBook work?

Read what matters most SmartBook highlights key concepts for you, saving you time.

Practice what you’ve learned SmartBook quizzes you along the way, making sure you understand the key concepts.

Recharge your memory

Use online or offline

SmartBook helps you remember the key concepts long term—not just on test day.

Access SmartBook wherever and whenever.

As a result of the adaptive reading experience found in SmartBook, students are more likely to retain knowledge, stay in class and get better grades.

This revolutionary technology is available only from McGraw-Hill Education and for hundreds of course areas as part of the LearnSmart Advantage series.

ALEKS® is an adaptive, online learning program proven to significantly raise grades, retention and pass rates at higher education institutions. Powered by artificial intelligence, this innovative learning system provides a customized experience for each student by responding to the student’s strengths and weaknesses and acting as a personal tutor, delivering the exact instruction needed—precisely when it’s needed.

And, when time spent studying is more effective, class time is more productive.

ALEKS provides university-readiness and course–mastery resources to millions of students around the globe.

The ALEKS library features rich course products for mathematics, business, science and behavioral science.

With ALEKS, higher education instructors can: • customize material based on each student’s strengths and weaknesses • leverage advanced reporting to identify at-risk students early • easily predict student performance on exams With ALEKS, students can: • know precisely how they’re doing—and what they need to work on—with customized assessments • be confident they understand the material and are retaining it

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Connect® is a proven teaching and learning environment that strengthens the link between faculty, students, and coursework. Innovative, adaptive technology engages students in course content so they are better prepared, more active in discussion and achieve better results.

Connect content is mapped to key learning objectives, making it easy for lecturers to create assignments that align with their syllabus. Automated grading saves time and enables powerful student-by-student reporting on learning objectives, outcomes and assignment type. Lecturers can easily identify at-risk students and challenging topics using Connect Insight’s intuitive data visualizations. Connect has the capability of lecture capture and integrates with learning management systems for the most seamless user experience.

Connect is proven to raise grades and increase retention, making the teaching and learning experience more efficient, effective and meaningful for all.

“Connect has been hugely valuable in helping us to meet the needs of our students. From the lecturing team’s point of view, it has made our lives considerably easier and has definitely helped us to meet the needs of our students.”

Peter Alston, The School of Life Sciences, University of Liverpool

Connect helps students achieve better grades* With Connect

A

Without Connect

A 0

B

B 20

C

C 40

D

D

60

F

F 80

100

*Based on McGraw-Hill Education Connect Effectiveness Study 2013 (see: http://bit.ly/ConnectEffectivenessStudy)

94% of instructors who use Connect require it — do you?*

Requiring more = More satisfaction The more Connect is integrated into the course the more satisfied instructors are with Connect.*

94% Up to 5%

6–15%

16–25%

More than 25%

Instructor satisfaction by percentage of course grade. *Based on instructor satisfaction survey conducted with 1,705 Connect instructors.

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Interactive and GameBased Digital Solutions Practical and engaging resources to support students and practitioners throughout training and practice, across a range of education and helping professions.

Anatomy & Physiology Revealed 3.0 is the ultimate interactive cadaver dissection experience.

This state-of-the-art tutorial uses cadaver photos combined with a layering technique that allows the student to peel away layers of the human body to reveal structures beneath the surface.

The Game and Glo-Bus are bestselling computer simulations in the strategic management market, based around athletic footwear and digital camera industries. The Business Strategy Game and Glo-Bus help students learn from working with the numbers, exploring options and trying to unite production, marketing, finance and human resource decisions into a coherent strategy.

MH Practice is a series of 3D multiplayer learning games from McGraw-Hill Education. Designed with subject matter experts, these products integrate with core curriculum to deliver immersive learning experiences and rich assessment capabilities.

Practice titles also work with McGraw-Hill Connect速, a digital teaching and learning environment.

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Services from McGraw-Hill Education

LMS integration McGraw-Hill Campus® integrates all of your digital products from McGraw-Hill Education with your school learning management systems (LMS) for quick and easy access to best-in-class content and learning tools.

MH Campus can partner with all major learning management systems including: ANGEL®, Blackboard Learn™, Canvas™, Moodle™, Sakai® and Desire2Learn™ and enables users to have single sign-on access to McGraw-Hill Education’s digital learning platforms, including Connect, ALEKS and Create.

Build an effective digital course, enroll students with ease and discover how powerful digital teaching can be.

McGraw-Hill Create™ is a self-service website that allows you to create customized course materials using McGraw-Hill’s comprehensive, cross-disciplinary content and digital products. You can even access third-party content such as readings, articles, cases, videos and more.

Arrange the content you’ve selected to match the scope and sequence of your course. Personalize your book with a cover design and choose the best format for your students–eBook, color print, or black-and-white print. And, when you’re done, you’ll receive a PDF review copy in just minutes!

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Students Preparing students for the world that awaits

No two students are alike–why should their learning paths be?

Proven to help students get a better grade Studies show that McGraw-Hill Connect, LearnSmart and SmartBook can help students increase their grades by a full letter.

Save time. Study smarter SmartBook makes sure students focus on the things they don’t know so that they can prioritize their study time wisely.

Results in real time All our learning technologies enable students to track their progress and take control of their learning—they no longer wait for in-class tests or final exams to know which areas they are struggling in and need to focus more study time on.

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Authoritative online reference resources AccessMedical

AccessEngineering

Providing students, clinicians, professors and researchers with instant and educational answers from the world’s leading sources.

• 620+ premier engineering titles containing multi-disciplinary reference content in more than 11 different engineering specialty areas

AccessMedicine

• 3,000+ interactive graphs that enable precise reading of data

• 99+ leading clinical and educational resources including Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine

• 49,000+ reference tables with data exportable to Microsoft®Excel®

• Educational tools prepare those at all levels of medical education for exams and real-life patient cases

• 840+ instructional videos that reinforce key engineering concepts

• Practice tools support clinicians at the point of care • The Custom Curriculum Rotation and Course Management tool ties it all together

• Topic-specific, excel-based calculators which streamline complex and time-consuming calculations, many of which are accompanied by study guides and tutorials • Topic/curriculum maps consisting of curated sets of content from across the site, a perfect tool for academic instructors, students and engineering professionals alike • Premier business skills titles to ensure engineers at all levels have the business acumen to thrive in the field • Engineering-specific Schaum’s Outlines for engineers to drill themselves on crucial concepts

“AccessEngineering gives our students and staff quick and easy access to key engineering texts.”

Jenny Lauder, Academic Support Librarian (Engineering), The University of Edinburgh

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AccessScience

McGraw-Hill eBook Library

AccessScience is an authoritative and dynamic online resource that contains incisively written, high-quality reference material that covers all major scientific disciplines.

• More than 2,600 high-quality titles with new titles added quarterly

• It’s an award-winning gateway to scientific knowledge. A starting-off point before diving deeper into scientific topics • Content is linked to primary scientific literature for deeper research. This is essential for academic and scientific career success • All content is written by leading science experts, including contributions by Nobel Prize winners.

Authority and reliability guaranteed • Provides pedagogical tools to aid development of scientific curriculum development

• Covers a range of subject areas, including business, computing, student study aids, languages, nursing and public health • Unlimited concurrent usage • High-quality MARC records • Usage stats available 24/7 • Features include: note taking and bookmarking • Now includes media files – videos, podcasts and more!

• Subscription and perpetual access options available

• Brings science to life with full-color illustrations, captivating photographs, engaging videos and downloadable animations

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Because learning changes everything

McGraw-Hill Education www.mheducation.co.uk

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