Connect with SmartBook®

Preferred by Students

CODiE Winner 2015: Best Post-Secondary Solution

McGraw-Hill Connect® is a proven teaching and learning environment that strengthens the link between faculty, students, and coursework. Students are more engaged with course content, can better prioritize their time, and come to class ready to participate.

Connect includes:

• one destination for all course content

• assignment and quiz banks

• deep insights into student performance

• adaptive learning tools

• simple LMS integration

Connect makesteaching and

learning personalfor its users throughadaptive technology,support programs,

and by simply stayingin touch withtheir needs.

Connect’s intuitiveinterface andleading-edge

technology eliminatebarriers and create

efficiencies forinstructors and

students.

Connect is proven toimprove performance

across a range ofoutcomes and to

increase faculty andstudent success.

Personal Easy Effective

Connect Insight® for Educators presents assignment, assessment, and topical performance results along with a time metric that is easily visible for aggregate or individual results.

Develop assignments for your course using McGraw-Hill’s proven and vetted content. A comprehensive library of resources, such as quizzes, videos, and interactives, provides you with options you can modify to suit your needs.

SmartBook® is a continually adapting reading experience that provides personalized learning resources at the precise moment of need. SmartBook identifies and closes knowledge gaps to make study time as productive and efficient as possible.

Connect

Learning Tools

Assessment Tools

Analytics

Connect® Digital Teaching and Learning Made Personal, Easy, and Effective

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What is a CODiE award?The CODiE Awards remain the only peer-recognized program in the content, education, and software industry. Each CODiE Award win serves as an incredible testament to Connect’s innovation, vision, and overall industry impact.

Run by SIIA, the Software and Information Industry Association, the CODiE Awards were established in 1986 to recognize excellence by honoring the software industry’s leading products and services.

// SmartBook: Best Learning Capacity-Building Solution, 2015 // Recognizes the best tool for learners in PK-12 or postsecondary markets that can be used to increase attention, responsibility, independence and engagement in their learning tasks. Includes digital tools in learning sciences to optimize engagement.

// Connect: Best Post-Secondary Personalized Learning Solution, 2015 //

Recognizes the best educational application or service designed to support PK-12 or postsecondary education institutions in the development of faculty and administrative staff. Includes professional development programs and learning management systems.

// Connect: Best Post-Secondary Solution, 2015 // Recognizes the best teaching and learning platform designed for post-secondary educators to manage content, student access and use, diagnostic and remediation programs, and data and reporting.

Connect and SmartBook win Three Honours for Education Technology

Connect’s adaptive learning technology was the first of its kind in higher education. It is also the only proven system that spans the higher education curriculum, with 90+ disciplines represented and both qualitative and quantitative data to support improved outcomes.

+10.8% +5.7% +18.0% +16.4%

RESULTS WITH CONNECT

PASS RATES EXAM SCORES ATTENDANCE RATES RETENTION RATES

Data compiled from independent research studies at higher education institutions.

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Available within McGraw-Hill Connect®, SmartBook® is the first and only

adaptive reading and learning solution designed to transform how

students read and learn.

SmartBook® The First and Only Adaptive Reading Experience

Read Practice Recharge

SmartBook identifies and closes

knowledge gaps through a

continually adapting reading

experience that provides

personalized learning resources

at the precise moment of need.

This ensures that every minute

spent with SmartBook is returned

to the student as the most

value-added minute possible.

The result?

More confidence and motivation,

better retention of concepts,

better grades, greater success,

and improved class participation.

Students read the material and are guided to adaptive highlighting that emphasizes topics they should spend the most time studying.

To ensure mastery and retention, SmartBook directs students to recharge material they’re likely to forget.

As students read the material, SmartBook presents questions to help identify what content they know and don’t know.

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Personalized Learning

Knowledge Retention

Motivation

Productive Studying

• ACCOMMODATES ALL LEARNERS by adapting more than two times a minute.

• APPLIES MEMORY DECAY PRINCIPLES for efficient learning and long-term knowledge retention.

• APPLIES METACOGNITION PRINCIPLES to gauge learning and boost student motivation.

• HELPS STUDENTS OPTIMIZE STUDY TIME by tailoring the experience to their knowledge gaps.

How Does SmartBook Work?

Collects Data Points

Determines Student Confidence Levels

Data Points – 10 Per Question• Captures the user behaviour• Creates a baseline of the

student’s knowledge• Determines the next question to

assign

Student Confidence Levels• Collects context from the student• Shows what they really know as

opposed to what they think they know (metacognition)

• Provides opportunity for deliberate practice

• Addresses overconfident learners

Memory Decay Principles• Helps transition course concepts

from short-term to long-term memory

• Predicts the exact moment the learner is about to forget something

• Determines question sequencing and enhance retention

Predicts Memory Decay

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A B C D F

A B C D F

SmartBook assignments

Testbank question assignments

Better Outcomes1 More B students earn A’s. More C students earn B’s.

Reduced Course Administration2

n Concept Application and Active Learningn Reviewing Homeworkn Administering Exams/Quizzes

40%40%

20%

9%

90%

1%Before Connect After Connect

Proven Results Connect is an Efficient and Effective Learning ToolWith Connect, users get better results in less time.

75.5%

87%

75%

85%

Pass Rate Retention RateRetention rates increased an average of 10% across the schools and a weighted average of 8% across all students.Passing rates increased by an average of 11.5% across the schools and by a weighted average of 7% across all students.

Better Retention and Pass Rates3

n Testbank question assignmentsn SmartBook assignments

Sources1. http://learnsmartadvantage.com/instructors/case-study/the-mcgraw-hill-ls-effectiveness-study/2. (1) Et al. Digital Course Solution Improves Student Success and Increases Instructor Efficiency – 2010 Case Studies (2) Welch, D. Case Study, Franklin University, Fall 2010. McGraw-Hill3. Independent study of over 700 students studying Anatomy & Physiology I at 6 distinct institutions (McGraw-Hill, U.S., June 2012).

50% agree 31% agree strongly

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Source: 2016 Canadian Student SmartBook user survey. McGraw-Hill Education, Canada

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Compared to other eBooks, students agree that SmartBook helped them:

87% 87% 83% 86% 85%

Retain more knowledge for longer periods

of time

Use their study time more efficiently

Improve their confidence

before tests and exams

Be better prepared for class

Achieve better results

Compared to a print textbook, students agree that SmartBook helped them:

Retain more knowledge for longer periods

of time

Use their study time more efficiently

Improve their confidence

before tests and exams

Be better prepared for class

Achieve better results

75% 80% 77% 77% 75%

n Pearson n Nelson n Wiley n Other publisher eBook n None

To better understand Canadian students’ preference between digital and print, McGraw-Hill Education Canada conducted an opinion survey among 2100 Canadian College and University students.

Other eBooks these students have used:46% 26% 17% 10% 1%

Canadian Students agree that courses are more engaging and interesting with SmartBook:

81%

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