Slide One Essays - Education, Distance Education, Euthenics

Slide One: Hello, and welcome to Liberty University's HIUS 221 Survey of U.S. History. This tutorial was meant to help you get started in the course and be successful along the way. Slide Two: Some quick reminders about this course before we begin. First of all, you will not be using a printed text for this course. Although one is available on MBS for a small fee, this does not include any video material that may be included in MindTap, and many of the map activities may be missing as well. You really have nothing to purchase for this class. Everything has already been charged to your student account through our course fee model. This course will also be different in some other ways, so please be flexible and open-minded as you move through it and be sure to listen to all instructions from your instructor. We need your feedback on this course. These courses are constantly a work in progress, and we really appreciate all the things we learn from our students as they move through the course. Slide Three: First of all, some of you might be asking, "What is MindTap?" MindTap for U.S. History is a new way to learn that allows you to build your knowledge in small increments so that you really commit things to long term memory. This is a product that is different than any other e-book or online learning resource that we've been able to find, and I hope will enjoy it. Slide Four: You may be asking yourself, "How is my course going to be different?" Well, first of all, as we've said, there's no textbook. But in this MindTap course, there are no chapters, there are no long reading assignments of hundreds of pages, and there are no massive quizzes at the end of the week on all the reading you've done in your MindTap course. There are quizzes on other assignments, but not on the main reading of the course. This is also a different Blackboard experience as I think you will see. This course is set up to help you learn and succeed as you move along. Slide Five: Now you might be asking yourself, "How is my course going to be different than any other Blackboard course I've taken at Liberty University?" Well, I think when you click through the course, you'll actually find out. First, go into Module 1, Week 1. Just take a look. There are no more reading and video folders, no more assignment folders, no more separate folders for anything. You'll actually find that everything you need is laid out in one succinct learning path that guides you from one assignment to the next without any real breaks or finding out where things are. Slide Six: "So, what do you mean? Show me how this course is different!" Well, let's take a look. We're going to click on Course Content and as that comes up, you'll actually find here are all your modules and weeks laid out just like any other course, but we'll go ahead and click into week 1 since that's what we just mentioned. And as you can see, everything you need for the week is actually laid out right here for you. The first thing you'll see every week is a study plan. I encourage you to download these, print them out, take a look at them because they will guide you step by step into exactly what you need to do, and how long those things might actually take as you go through the week. You'll find when you look at these that every week, you're actually scheduled to have Sunday off and Monday as a catch-up day, if you will. So you could actually finish all of your work on Tuesday through Saturday if you follow this plan. Now I understand, many people work, they have families, and they have other commitments, but this is an easy way for you to really schedule your time. Now let's look out through the rest of this. As you can see, you have every assignment you need to do in the order in which you need to do it. I really encourage you to stay on