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MindTap Agriscience, 2 terms (12 months) Instant Access for Herren's Agricultural Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, 7th Edition

Ray V. Herren

  • Copyright 2018
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MindTap Agriscience, 2 terms (12 months) Instant Access for Herren's Agricultural Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications 7th Edition by Ray V. Herren
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MindTap Agriscience for Herren's Agricultural Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, 7th edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.

As an educator using MindTap, you have at your fingertips the right content and unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, including engaging activities, interactive image labeling, games, video, lab exercises and quizzing. Logically organized into content specific sections containing each of these features, the all-in-one interface is designed to improve workflow and save time when planning lessons and course structure. The control to build and personalize your course is all yours, focusing on the most relevant material while also lowering costs for your students. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student tracking that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course.

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Ray V. Herren

Ray V. Herren has been actively involved in agriculture for most of his life. He grew up on a diversified farm, where he played a major role in the production of livestock. He obtained a bachelor of science degree in agricultural education from Auburn University, a master's degree in agribusiness education from Alabama A & M, and a Doctorate in Vocational Education (with an emphasis in agricultural education) from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Dr. Herren has taught at Virginia Tech, Oregon State University, and the University of Georgia in Athens, where he recently retired as head of the Department of Agriculture Leadership, Education, and Communication. In addition to serving as a national leader in the Future Farmers of America (FFA) alumni organization, he has served on numerous committees from the local to international level, including a national task force to develop FFA programs for middle school and the national committee for career development events. His prolific scholarly activity includes 26 journal articles, 51 invited or refereed presentations, and 12 books and manuals. He has also earned several awards for his commitment to service, as well as UGA's prestigious College of Education Outstanding Teaching Award.

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  • Streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and unique tools, including image labeling, games, video, lab exercises, and auto-graded assignments and quizzes, all designed to save you time and provide students with engaging course material and instant feedback.
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  • Track students in real time with the Progress app adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
  • Keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing with the MindTap Mobile App.
  • Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
  • Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times within the student view of the Progress App.
  • Engage students with course material specially customized for them by you streamlined in one proven, easy-to-use interface.
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  • Quickly and easily content with students directly from the MindTap platform using the Message Center app. Any message posted in the Message Center is communicated directly to each student enrolled in the course via the communication medium designated by the student.
  • DEVELOP YOUR STUDENTS' SOFT SKILLS. MindTap Agriculture now includes S/P2's soft skills training modules that will help prepare students to enter the workforce!

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Unit Overviews provide students with an introduction to the main topics presented in each lesson, combining learning objectives with supporting text, images, and graphics in a highly visual PowerPoint presentation.

Logically organized, each reading in the ebook falls under a specific module of learning, including important topics such as careers, orienting students to the shop, woodworking and metal working, power tools, project planning, tool fitting, gas heating, cutting, brazing and welding, arc welding, painting power mechanics, electricity and electronics plumbing, hydraulic and pneumatic systems, concrete and masonry and agriculture structures.

Videos explore the intricacies of specific topics through engaging narrative and visuals, enabling students to experience realistic industry-related scenarios and expand their knowledge of the content.

Lab Exercises encourage the application of content learned in each lesson, successfully connecting the hands on experience of the lab with interactive online reporting of lab results.

Engaging activities and games, including image labeling, matching, and crossword puzzles serve to reinforce and encourage the practice and remediation of key concepts in each lesson.

Auto-graded quizzing for each lesson tracks students’ progress and acquired knowledge, while providing remediation for areas requiring improvement.

A combined English Glossary/Spanish Glosario App provides instant access to definitions for terms in both English and Spanish, ensuring that all students have equal opportunity to learn key concepts.

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This Cengage solution can be seamlessly integrated into most Learning Management Systems (Blackboard, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and more) but does require a different ISBN for access codes. Please work with your Cengage Learning Consultant to ensure the proper course set up and ordering information. For additional information, please visit the LMS Integration site.

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  • ISBN-10: 1305950143
  • ISBN-13: 9781305950146
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