Assessments within Connect can be powerful tools for enhancing student understanding, critical thinking, and retention of course material. As educators, we know all students have different learning styles; they can be auditory, kinesthetic, or visual learners. Engaging students is key to both their—and our—success.  

An average student today can be struggling with a lot of things– from trying to keep a balance between staying safe and maintaining a normal life, to feeling scared, depressed, and worried about his future, to feeling a bit lost and angry. It’s worth pondering upon the ways to support them through the pandemic and how instructors can best educate their students during these tough times.

The content of this blog has been extracted from the webinar conducted by Robert Feldman, where he shared the challenges faced by students in the pandemic, learning science and how instructors can use technologies such as Connect® to teach online. You can watch the webinar here.

The typical way of disseminating knowledge in the education space involves experts in the field sharing their knowledge and learnings with their students. The pandemic dramatically changed the method of teaching from the classroom setting to online. Everyone involved had to adapt to this change.

A big gap has been identified between knowing and doing i.e., a student may know about finance but can’t make smart decisions related to debt or equity financing using the cost of capital or a student may have studied operations but is unable to set up a supply chain or run a factory floor. This gap can be closed or minimised by flipping the classroom. 

When the instructors integrate various concepts, frameworks, theories, and cases, and embed those in McGrawhill Connect they get an effective and strong teaching strategy - Concepts, Cases and Connect. And this can facilitate in flipping the classroom. This approach is applicable to a variety of courses.