MULTIMEDIA

FOR STUDENTS

Electronic Versions

Discovering the Essential Universe is offered in two electronic versions. One is an Interactive e-Book, available as part of LaunchPad, described below. The other is a PDF-based e-Book from CourseSmart, available through www.coursesmart.com. These options are provided to offer students and instructors flexibility in their use of course materials.

CourseSmart e-Book

Discovering the Essential Universe CourseSmart e-Book offers the complete text in an easy-to-use, flexible format. Students can choose to view the CourseSmart e-Book online or to download it to their computer or a mobile device, such as iPad, iPhone, or Android device. To help students study and mirror the experience of a printed textbook, CourseSmart e-Books feature note-taking, highlighting, and bookmark features.

ONLINE LEARNING OPTIONS

Discovering the Essential Universe supports instructors with a variety of online learning preferences. Its rich array of resources and platforms provides solutions according to each instructor’s teaching method.

LaunchPad: Because Technology Should Never Get in the Way

At W. H. Freeman, we are committed to providing online instructional materials that meet the needs of instructors and students in powerful, yet simple ways—powerful enough to dramatically enhance teaching and learning, yet simple enough to use right away.

We have taken what we’ve learned from thousands of instructors and hundreds of thousands of students to create LaunchPad, a new generation of technology. LaunchPad offers our acclaimed content curated and organized for easy assignment in a breakthrough user interface in which power and simplicity go hand in hand.

Curated LaunchPad Units make class prep a whole lot easier

Combining a curated collection of video, tutorials, animations, projects, multimedia activities and exercises, and e-Book content, LaunchPad’s interactive units give instructors a building block to use as is or as a starting point for their own learning units. An entire unit’s worth of work can be assigned in seconds, drastically saving the amount of time it takes to have the course up and running.

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Interactive e-Book

The Interactive e-Book is a complete online version of the textbook with easy access to rich multimedia resources that complete student understanding. All text, graphics, tables, boxes, and end-of-chapter resources are included in the e-Book, and the e-Book provides instructors and students with powerful functionality to tailor their course resources to fit their needs.

Astronomy Tutorials

Image Map Activities

Animations, Videos, Interactive Exercises, Flashcards

Assignments for Online Quizzing, Homework, and Self-Study

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FOR INSTRUCTORS

Computerized Test Bank

Thousands of multiple-choice questions are section-referenced. The easy-to-use test bank allows instructors to add, edit, re-sequence, and print questions to suit their needs. The test bank can be downloaded from macmillanhighered.com.

Online Course Materials (Blackboard, Moodle, Desire2Learn, Canvas)

As a service for adopters, we will provide content files in the appropriate online course format, including instructor and student resources for the textbook. The files can be used as is or can be customized to fit specific needs. Prebuilt quizzes, animations, and activities, among other materials, are included.

Classroom Presentation and Interactivity

A set of online lecture presentations created in Power-Point allows instructors to tailor their lectures to suit their own needs using images and notes from the textbook. These presentations are available for download at macmillanhighered.com.

Clicker Questions

Written by Neil Comins, these questions can be used as lecture launchers with or without a classroom response system such as iClicker. Each chapter includes questions relating to common misconceptions, as well as writing questions for instructors who would like to add a writing or class discussion element to their lectures.