As I mentioned in an earlier post, Cengage, who publish my Discovering Biological Psychology, is launching CengageBrain.com, a new portal for obtaining textbooks directly without paying the college bookstores their middleman cuts. You can buy regular textbooks, eBooks, or eChapters. A new feature is the ability to rent a textbook. My book Read more…
If you haven’t seen an eBook before, here’s an image from what mine looks like: One of the nice features of Cengage‘s eBooks is that you can highlight, as I’ve demonstrated in the image, and take notes. So two major barriers to using an online resource instead of buying a Read more…
In my morning mail was an interesting letter from my publisher, Cengage, in which they described a new innovation–CengageBrain.com. Using this site, students will be able to purchase or rent over 1300 of the titles published by Cengage, with even more to be added later. The letter went on to say that my Read more…
Just finished grading this quarter’s Neuro ID exam for my 90 + Biopsych students, and I’m delighted with how well they did! This is not everybody’s favorite activity–it’s rote memorization–but it makes no more sense for students to talk about neuroscience without knowing where the cingulate cortex is than to Read more…
All of us are “doing more with less,” especially this year, which means that faculty have precious little time to jazz up lectures. One of the resources that really engages students is the use of relevant videoclips from youtube or other online sources. Most of us are no longer showing Read more…