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Business: Connecting Principles to Practice, 2/e

William G. Nickels, University of Maryland
James M. McHugh, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park
Susan M. McHugh, Applied Learning Systems

ISBN: 0078023149
Copyright year: 2014

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The supplements package for Business: Connecting Principles to Practice – it’s what all competitors try to emulate. The format of the supplements package is always geared to the part-time instructor or the instructor with little time to prep for this course – we want to help you with the resources you need to easily start teaching.

Tight integration of text, resources, technology.

The elements of the book and supplements are all tightly integrated, especially in the Instructor’s Manual. Here you will find every element of the supplements package and text organized into a lecture outline so you can easily see what other resources you may want to pull into your lecture and course. All of these resources are organized by the same learning objectives in every chapter.

The following supporting resources are provided with the adoption of this text:

Connect® Plus Business is McGraw-Hill’s Web-based assignment and assessment platform that gives students the means to better connect with their coursework, instructors, and with the important concepts that they will need to know for success now and in the future. With Connect Plus, instructors can deliver assignments, quizzes, and tests easily online. Please click here to find out what Connect includes with this text.

Instructor’s Manual: The IM provides so much more than just outlines and textbook content. It integrates all of the supplements together with the book, and organizes everything by learning objective. The video notes, supplemental cases, lecture outlines, PowerPoint thumbnails, critical thinking exercises, suggested syllabi, and answers to discussion questions in the text are included in one convenient spot for you to pick up and start teaching.

NEW Connect® Instructor’s Manual: This instructor’s manual walks instructors through using Connect in their courses. This Instructor’s Manual includes everything from how to get started to suggestions of what to assign and ideas about assigning credit. It also gives descriptions of every assignment in Connect so instructors can pick and choose what want to assign to their students. This tool was developed by instructors who have used and continue to use Connect successfully in their Introduction to Business course and is a great help to figure out how to start setting up your course.

Test Bank: Is designed to test 3 levels of learning based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. Each question and answer includes a rationale for the correct answer, the corresponding page reference in the text for the answer, and the level of learning – adding to the effectiveness of this 9000+ question test bank.

EZ Test: The Computerized Test Bank can be found on the Instructor’s Resource CD, at www.eztestonline.com, and within Connect and allows professors to add, delete, and edit questions as they wish to create their exams.

PowerPoint Slides: Every one of the 44-55 PowerPoint slides also includes a detailed teaching note which is a great time saving help for instructors new to this text as well as part-time instructors. Each set includes slides with questions for the classroom that can be integrated with Personal Response Systems utilized in this course.  Abbreviated sets of slides are provided for students on their Online Learning Center.

NEW & UPDATED Videos (DVD ISBN: 0077506529) We know that videos are a very important part of this course. They can be a way to bring business professionals right into your course – so we produce clips specifically to support chapter key concepts and features companies, big and small, and a mix of business professionals in the video cases.

NEW! iSeeit! Animated Explanation Video Clips—What’s the difference between Mediation and Arbitration? What is line vs. staff personnel? Topics such as these are often confused by students learning the language of business for the first time.  What if you were able to convey important concepts in a fun, animated, and memorable way that explain the topic in a way students will quickly understand and remember? What if students could quickly access the clip while they are reading their book right on their smartphone or computer?  iSeeit! video clips are the solution! Students simply scan the QR Code in their text or type in the URL to access these hot new video clips!

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Video Guide – This guide (available as a part of the Instructor's Manual) includes detailed teaching notes to accompany the chapter videos, as well as essay-style and multiple-choice questions.


Instructor’s Resource CD (ISBN: 0077745922): The Instructor’s Resource CD includes the Instructor’s Manual, Computerized Test Bank, and PowerPoint slides.

Monthly Newsletter: Every month the newsletter includes article abstracts, recent videos relating to chapters in this course, and PowerPoint slides along with discussion questions with suggested answers to make it super easy for faculty to incorporate these articles and videos into classes.

NEW Study Business AppStudents can study concepts on-the-go with McGraw-Hill’s Study Business App.  The Study Business App includes book-specific study tools.  The app is available in Apple and Android app markets.  Upon downloading, receive the first three chapters of content for free.  After the trial, purchase the rest of the content within the app.  Features of the Study Business mobile app include:
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  • Customizable self-quizzes that allow for practice and feedback.
  • Various games which help make learning key terms and concepts engaging and fun!
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Online Learning Center: The Online Learning Center is designed to be a study resource for students and houses additional downloadable supplements and teaching information for professors. Student quizzes, multi-lingual glossaries, Wall Street Survivor, professional resources, chapter objectives and summaries, and more are all available as part of the OLC content for students.

Student Assessment and Learning Guide - This guide is designed to help students study important material from the chapters and give them an edge in the course.  Each chapter contains learning goals, key term review, assessment checks, critical thinking exercises, practice quizzes, internet research exercises, and answers to all of these questions so students can study on their own. The Study Guide is available on the Student’s Online Learning Center and within the Library Resources of Connect. If you prefer a printed study guide, please work with your rep and they will be able to build you a guide specific for your course via CREATE custom publishing.

Business Plan Pro (ISBN: 007733065X): Business Plan Pro helps students with its wizard based environment step-by-step through the creation of a professional business plan.

Tegrity Campus is a service that makes class time available all the time by automatically capturing every lecture in a searchable format for students to review when they study and complete assignments. With a simple one-click start and stop process, you capture all computer screens and corresponding audio. Students can replay any part of any class with easy-to-use browser-based viewing on a PC or Mac. Tegrity Campus is available stand-alone or within Connect.

Blackboard® Partnership McGraw-Hill and Blackboard have teamed up to simplify your life.  Now you and your students can access Connect and Create right from within your Blackboard course – all with one single sign-on.  The grade books are seamless, so when a student completes an integrated Connect assignment, the grade for that assignment automatically (and instantly) feeds your Blackboard grade center.  Learn more at www.domorenow.com.

MHCampus™: McGraw-Hill Campus™ is a new one-stop teaching and learning experience available to users of any learning management system. This institutional service allows faculty and students to enjoy single sign-on (SSO) access to all McGraw-Hill Higher Education materials, including the award winning McGraw-Hill Connect platform, from directly within the institution’s website.  McGraw-Hill Campus™ provides faculty with instant access to all McGraw-Hill Higher Education teaching materials (e.g. eTextbooks, test banks, PowerPoint slides, animations and learning objects, etc), allowing them to browse, Search, and use any instructor ancillary content in our vast library at no additional cost to instructor or students.  Students enjoy SSO access to a variety of free (e.g. quizzes, flash cards, narrated presentations…etc.) and subscription based products (e.g. McGraw-Hill Connect).  With this program enabled, faculty and students will never need to create another account to access McGraw-Hill products and services. Learn more at www.mhcampus.com.

Assurance of Learning ReadyMany educational institutions today are focused on the notion of assurance of learning, an important element of some accreditation standards. Business: Connecting Principles to Practice, is designed specifically to support your assurance of learning initiatives with a simple, yet powerful solution. Each test bank question for Business: Connecting Principles to Practice maps to a specific chapter learning outcome/objective listed in the text. You can use our test bank software, EZ Test and EZ Test Online, or in Connect Business to easily query for learning outcomes/objectives that directly relate to the learning objectives for your course. You can then use the reporting features of EZ Test to aggregate student results in similar fashion, making the collection and presentation of assurance of learning data simple and easy.

AACSB StatementThe McGraw-Hill Companies is a proud corporate member of AACSB International. Understanding the importance and value of AACSB accreditation, this text recognizes the curricula guidelines detailed in the AACSB standards for business accreditation by connecting selected questions in the test bank to the six general knowledge and skill guidelines in the AACSB standards.

The statements contained in this text are provided only as a guide for the users of this textbook. The AACSB leaves content coverage and assessment within the purview of individual schools, the mission of the school, and the faculty. While Business: Connecting Principles to Practice and the teaching package make no claim of any specific AACSB qualification or evaluation, we have within Business: Connecting Principles to Practice, labeled selected questions according to the six general knowledge and skills areas.

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