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Rita Cossa
McMaster University
Business Environment & Organization
Before implementing Connect in her Business Environment & Organization course, Professor Rita Cossa found that students often arrived to class without having completed the assigned chapter readings. This meant that a majority of class time was spent on covering course content, rather than moving onto more important topics such as Canadian and global current events.
Course Material in Use: Nickels, Understanding Canadian Business, 11ce
Cameron Gall
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Micro and Macroeconomics
As SAIT’s school of business program grew, the program’s Micro and Macroeconomics courses needed to change to meet increasing demand. Previously, each economics instructor managed their courses independently with the only crossover being the final exam. There was also a concern about students falling behind and needing to drop the course due to a lack of time-management and understanding of materials.
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James Hall
Algonquin College
Business Computer Applications
Before choosing SIMnet for his Business Computer Applications course, Professor James Halls found other applications were difficult to use and often glitchy. He found that simulation questions provided by his former application were prone to errors and it was difficult for him to add extra time to activities for individual students.
Course Material in Use: Nordell, Microsoft Office 365: In Practice, 2021 Edition
Sonja Johnston
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management
Prior to adopting Connect in her Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management course, Professor Sonja Johnston was looking for a resource that provided students with effective homework and quizzes as well as allowing for auto-grading and integration with her Learning Management System (LMS). This would allow for instruction time to be focused more on coaching and supporting students for their applied projects rather than marking.
Course Material in Use: Balderson, Canadian Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management, 11ce
David Kraichy
University of Saskatchewan
Human Resources Management
Before the use of Connect, Dr. Kraichy was concerned that students were not engaging with course material until shortly before exams, leaving students stressed and sometimes unprepared for their assessments.
Course Material in Use: Schwind, Canadian Human Resource Management: A Strategic Approach, 12e
Brandy Mackintosh
University of Saskatchewan
Introductory Financial Accounting
Professor Brandy Mackintosh believes accounting is a subject that is best learned by doing. She constantly stresses the importance of practice and the role it plays in becoming successful on accounting assignments and exams to students in her Introductory Financial Accounting course.
Course Material in Use: Phillips, Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, 6ce
Robert McKeown
York University
Introductory Mathematics for Economics
Before using ALEKS, Professor Robert McKeown found that first-year students in his Introductory Mathematics for Economics course suffered from low retention rates due to poor performance in mathematics. Students entering the course struggled with calculus because they were not sufficiently skilled in algebra and other pre-calculus topics.
Course Material in Use: ALEKS Prep for Calculus with Limits
Dr. Felipe F. Rodrigues
King’s University College
Operations Management
In Dr. Felipe Rodrigues’s experience, he has found that Operations Management is a course that most students struggle to relate to, either because they feel like it’s part of engineering, or because they assume it is exclusive to manufacturing, which they are unfamiliar with. He needed a learning solution that would make operations content relatable and therefore easier to learn.
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Practice Operations
Nicole Rourke
St. Clair College
Introduction to Canadian Marketing/ Multi-Media Sales Presentations
Before using Connect, Professor Nicole Rourke found the task of marking individual assignments very time-consuming with such a large class size. She needed a resource with a variety of online auto-graded homework assignments and quizzes so she could be more efficient and spend less time grading.
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Lewis Stevenson
Brock University
Personal Finance
Before using Connect, Professor Lewis Stevenson found it challenging to consistently get students to read the course content before class. It was difficult to find an education technology that provided feedback to students as they progressed through their readings and assigned work. Luckily, he found a resource that offered him exactly the tools he needed: Connect.
Course Material in Use: Kapoor, Personal Finance, 8ce
Margaret Strawbridge
Conestoga College
Sales
Before adopting Connect into her Sales course, Professor Margaret Strawbridge found that students rarely read the assigned course material, missing out on many key concepts and terminology that were important to the sales process. Students came to class unprepared, and the majority of class time was required for covering basic topics, rather than more engaging discussions of how to apply concepts and practicing skills.
Course Material in Use: Futrell, ABC’s of Relationship Selling, 8ce
Ryan Vatanchi
Fanshawe College
HRIS Data & Enquiry, Software Applications for HR Professionals, Information Management
Before deciding to use SIMnet in his Human Resource Management courses, Ryan Vatanchi found that students tended to lack the technical skills required to be successful and that he did not have the necessary practice examples to help them gain those skills.
Course Material in Use: Microsoft Office 365: In Practice, 2019 Edition, Nordell
Fanny Boulesteix
Douglas College
Basic French
Before implementing Connect in her Basic French courses, Professor Fanny Boulesteix found that students often came to class unprepared, causing valuable class time to be spent reviewing assigned material rather than teaching new content. She also found that assigned homework took a lot of time to manually mark and that because of this time constraint, she had limited time to track student progress as often as she would have liked. Connect offered an effective solution to both of these challenges.
Course Material in Use: Terrell, Deux Mondes, 8ce
Melanie Doyle
Dawson College
Introduction to Psychology
Before using Connect, Professor Melanie Doyle found it challenging to get students to complete the assigned readings before coming to lectures. As a result, class participation and discussion became difficult, and often in-class activities needed to be altered on the fly. These constant changes to course content only served to reinforce the notion that students didn’t need to be ready for class ahead of time and penalized the students who actually came to class having completed the homework.
Course Material in Use: Feldman, Essentials of Understanding Psychology, 6ce
Amalia Kartsonas
Conestoga College
Stakeholder Management
Before implementing Connect in her Stakeholder Management course, Professor Amalia Kartsonas struggled with the manual entry required for multiple-choice, true/false, and written essay questions in her assessments. It was difficult to develop question pools because of the labour involved to maintain them. She also found the student progress reports very basic on previously used platforms.
Course Material in Use: Cardon, Business Communication: Developing Leaders For A Networked World, 1ce
Sun-Young Kim
McGill University
Introductory German
When reviewing online teaching and learning platforms for her Introductory German course, there were many important factors that Dr. Sun-Young Kim considered. Any platform she considered adopting had to be user-friendly with a variety of activities in an online workbook and the ability to integrate her own material. She also wanted the tool to be adaptable for her students’ specific needs, strengths, and weaknesses. Finally, she wanted the resource to be cost-effective so that her students could afford it. Luckily, Dr. Kim found all these criteria were met by McGraw Hill’s digital learning solution, Connect.
Course Material in Use: Tschimer, Kontakte, 9e
Cathy Mondloch
Brock University
Life-span Development
Before using Connect, most students arrived to Professor Cathy Mondloch’s class unprepared, having not read the text or thought about the material. This made it hard to ensure that class time was interesting as it required spending too much time on the basics, to the frustration of those who did prepare. A significant amount of in-class time was also being spent testing students and Professor Mondloch found it difficult to keep students engaged with material and see its application in daily life.
Course Material in Use: Santrock, Life-Span Development, 1ce
Kimberly Sutherland
Douglas College
Basic French I & II; Intermediate French I & II
Before implementing Connect into her Basic French and Intermediate French courses, Dr. Sutherland had difficulty engaging students to complete their twice weekly class material practice assignments involving written and listening components. She also found she had limited time available to manually correct these practical assignments.
Course Material in Use: Terrell, Kontakte Deux Mondes, 8e
Eileen Gaetz
Bow Valley College
Business Communication
Prior to implementing Connect into her classroom, Professor Eileen Gaetz found that less than half of her students were purchasing their course materials. Because of this, few students were reading the chapters she assigned and were coming to class unprepared and fully dependent on the instructor to explain content. This left limited class time for students to work on assignments and for her to provide the one-on-one help that some students needed. Many students remained after lecture looking for extra help, which added more pressure for Professor Gaetz and her fellow instructors.
Course Material in Use: Cardon, Business Communication: Developing Leaders for a Networked World, 2ce
Dr. Andrea Pepper
St. Clair College
Anatomy & Physiology
Before implementing Connect, Dr. Andrea Pepper struggled to build her course herself using other online platforms and material. She also found it difficult to encourage students to register for courseware properly. Other platforms required a lot of manual set-up on her part.
Course Material in Use: VanPutte, Seeley's Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology, 11e
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