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International MindTap Office Technology Instant Access for Rankin/Shumack’s The Administrative Professional: Technology & Procedures, 15th Edition

Dianne S. Rankin, Kellie A. Shumack, Ph.D.

  • Copyright 2017
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International MindTap Office Technology Instant Access for Rankin/Shumack’s The Administrative Professional: Technology & Procedures 15th Edition by Dianne S. Rankin/Kellie A. Shumack, Ph.D.
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International MindTap Office Technology for Rankin/Shumack’s The Administrative Professional: Technology & Procedures 15th 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 instructor using MindTap you have at your fingertips the right content and unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, all in an interface 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. All online text media materials accessible through this access code are available in EMEA, Latin America, Asia, and India only.

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Meet the Authors

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Dianne S. Rankin

?Dianne S. Rankin is an author, consulting editor, and developer of instructional materials for textbooks, websites, and ancillaries for education publishers. Dianne has taught at the high-school and community-college levels and continues to teach computer classes for businesses and organizations. She has presented at many professional conferences and has been active in the National Business Education Association and Delta Pi Epsilon. In addition, Dianne has had firsthand experience as an administrative assistant.?

Kellie A. Shumack, Ph.D.

Kellie A. Shumack is an associate professor of instructional technology and a department head in the College of Education at Auburn Montgomery. She has worked as an administrative assistant and has taught at the secondary, community college, and university levels. Kellie has designed numerous college courses in both the online and face-to-face environments. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed journal articles, two textbooks, and several book chapters, and she has presented at over 40 professional conferences. Kellie was awarded the 2012 Auburn Montgomery College of Education Excellence in Teaching Award, received the 2010 Delta Pi Epsilon Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, and maintains a certificate to teach online courses at the postsecondary level.

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  • MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, automatically grades assignments and quizzes while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.
  • Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
  • Save students money in their course materials with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
  • Track students in real time with the Progress app adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
  • With the MindTap Mobile App, you can 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.
  • 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—both individually and compared to the highest performers in class 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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The MindTap Learning Path guides students through readings, multimedia, and activities designed to follow the learning taxonomy from basic knowledge and comprehension up to analysis and application. By hiding, rearranging, or adding your own content, you control what students see and when they see it and match the Learning Path to your course syllabus exactly.

Chapter Learning Objectives. These Learning Objectives are linked to the key points of the chapter to keep students focused on the important takeaways.

Chapter Outlines give the students a quick preview of the structure of the chapter’s key points.

eBook for The Administrative Professional: Technology & Procedures, 15th Edition. The acclaimed MindTap Reader boasts a multimedia rich experience with tagged note-taking, highlighting and bookmarking for easy study guide creation.

Video Assessments bring chapter concepts to life. Students analyze video content by answering assessment questions.

Interactive Quizzes help students consolidate their learning. References back to relevant sections of the eBook remediate incorrect answers.

Blog post assignments at the end of each chapter encourage students to reflect on the chapter content and provide an analysis by creating a blog post for each chapter.

Cool Tools build students’ computer savviness and real-world skills. Whether researching a technology purchase, developing an electronic form, creating a collaborative document, or creating an online resume, students use chapter concepts to create their own original content, while building skills that will be valuable to employers.

Web links send students out to the real world to find more information on professional organizations, use helpful online tools, and explore more about chapter concepts.

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  • ISBN-10: 1337017523
  • ISBN-13: 9781337017527
  • RETAIL £45.00
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