Higher Education Products 2018/19
Digital Solutions for Social Work
Macmillan Explorers
Hundreds of online books for an entire undergraduate course, all in one place. Macmillan Explorers provide university students with unlimited access to our high-quality eTextbooks for the duration of their undergraduate degree. Students can view hundreds of relevant textbooks expertly curated into courses aligned to the key areas of their studies. Using Macmillan Explorers you can: Get offline access on up to 4 devices
Save bookmarks
Print pages
Export notes & highlights to OneNote
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The Macmillan Social Work Explorer enhances the learning experience of social work students, helping them to really engage with their course reading. Subscribers can access over 200 books written by leading authors in the field.
With a wealth of quality reading at their fingertips, your students can discover books on all areas of the curriculum and feel fully prepared for classes, assignments, assessments and placements.
Within each eBook, you can: Search for terms in the book
Collect together all the important sections you’ve highlighted in your notebook Send links to specific pages to classes and classmates
Create study flashcards to test knowledge and help with revision
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Your course covered The comprehensive collection of texts featured in the Explorer has been curated into key courses within a typical Social Work degree programme. The collection also includes books on Research & Study Skills and Personal Development & Employability. Here’s just a small selection of the included titles:
Social Work Practice
Social Work Theory and Methods
Social Work with Children and Families
Human Development and Psychology
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Social Policy and Social Work Law
Social Work Skills
Social Work with Adults
Ethics and Values
Social Work, Disability and Mental Health
Sign up for a free trial.
Go to macmillanexplorers.com
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Social Work Toolkit The Macmillan Social Work Toolkit is an online toolkit of resources which helps students develop the knowledge, core skills and confidence they need to succeed on their Social Work course and throughout their placements. The Toolkit contains resources from over 100 different contributors including David Howe, Malcolm Payne and Neil Thompson, as well as students and service users. The resources are delivered in a range of formats including video, quizzes and PDF downloads and are ideal for use in the classroom, on placement and for independent study.
What’s in the Social Work Toolkit? Content is divided into five themes, linked to the modules on a typical Social Work course…
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Communication Skills
Professionalism in Practice
Ethics, Values and Diversity
Assessment and Intervention
Lifecourse Perspectives
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Resources within each theme include: • Expert opinions: Specially commissioned articles by academics, professionals and service users • Quick guides: Summary sheets on a wide range of topics for easy reference • Interactive quizzes: Multiple choice questions encouraging students to reflect on their responses to different scenarios • Preparation for practice: Invaluable tips and insights from professionals, students and service users • Case studies: Scenarios from a range of perspectives providing thought-provoking discussion points • Book chapters: Selected from our highly regarded list of social work textbooks The Toolkit is updated throughout the year and all resources use the Professional Capabilities Framework as a benchmark, as well as other National Occupational and Professional Standards.
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Why subscribe? Benefits for lecturers
Benefits for students
Save preparation time and improve students’ performance by providing instant access to high-quality resources via your VLE, course portal or library pages.
With the Toolkit students can access resources to develop their knowledge, revise for exams, prepare for placement or use as a starting point for assignments.
You can…
Students can…
• Integrate the resources into your teaching to stimulate interaction and debate in class
• Use bookmarks and saved searches to get quick access to their favourite resources
• Add hyperlinks on your booklist or via your VLE so you can guide students to specific resources for preparation or revision
• Store reflections and build a portfolio wherever they are using the ‘My Toolkit’ area
• Bookmark resources to help students prepare for placement and encourage reflective learning
A very good resource for selfdirected learning and very good for placement preparation modules Elaine Aspinwall-Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Liverpool John Moores University
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• Use the learning objectives, reflective questions, links to policy and law and further resource suggestions to critically engage with what they are learning
The Toolkit was very useful for all my modules… I liked the accessibility and the invaluable resources that it provided for the Social Work course Student, London South Bank University
Interested in subscribing? • Access is available through an institutional subscription • Pricing is tiered depending on the number of students and your chosen subscription length – discounts are available when purchasing the Social Work Explorer and Social Work Toolkit together • We can discuss access options with you, and provide marketing support for the rollout and ongoing promotion of the Toolkit to your students
…The Toolkit is an invaluable resource… a godsend to any social worker, particularly those who are starting their first placement
Sign up for a free trial.
Go to macmillanihe.com/ socialworktoolkit
Student, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Also available
Skills for study is an interactive study skills support resource which helps students to hone their academic skills, employability and approach to personal development. What does it include?
What are the key benefits?
1. 12 modules, each based around a key skill
• Encourages independent study and personalised learning
2. Packed with engaging activities and diagnostic tests
• Students work independently through their choice of interactive modules at their own pace, taking ownership of their learning
3. Covers crucial areas from writing skills to critical thinking 4. Comprehensive video centre which provides a richer learning experience
What are the key features? • Diagnostic tests help students identify and focus on the most beneficial areas and Module assessments test understanding and allow you to monitor students’ progress • Practice activities help reinforce new skills and Downloads include a wealth of additional checklists, exercises and advice which students can download
• Complements study skills teaching • A versatile teaching tool which integrates into course teaching, via deep links within lecture notes or printed downloadable materials • Frees up teaching time • Allows lecturers to target skills gaps in large groups or amongst individual students, by setting appropriate modules to complete outside of class
• My journal allows students to reflect and keep downloadable notes and My progress gives each student a summary of overall completion
The diagnostic tests work very well, as do the post-module tests (…) It is very interactive and will appear to a broad range of students
Visit www.skills4studycampus.com
Jackie Chelin, University of the West of England
for more information or to arrange a free trial
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Cite them right is an online referencing resource which equips students with the skills to reference any source type correctly and to avoid plagiarism with confidence. What are the key features?
What are the key benefits?
• Interactive tutorial – bite-sized content teaching students the importance of referencing, how to write citations and build references, including the ability to test themselves
• Actively engages students in building their own references
• You Try – an interactive feature for building references
• Helps students gain a long-term understanding of referencing principles
• Enables students to construct references easily and save or place them into their work • An extensive range of over 150 source types, with examples • Covers sources including books; journals; media and art; digital and internet; research; legal material; social media; blogs; graffiti
• Teaches students how to build and check their references with confidence
• Shares the principles behind referencing, instilling good practice for students’ entire academic careers • Provides high-quality, accurate referencing information • A tried and tested resource which lecturers can trust, just like the printed book on which it’s based
• Comprehensive, accurate coverage of Harvard, APA, MHRA, MLA, OSCOLA, Vancouver and Chicago referencing styles
It’s a great resource, we rely on Cite them right Lecturer at subscribing institution
Visit www.citethemrightonline.com
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