Gateways to Democracy | 4th Edition

For complete details about MindTap for GATEWAYS TO DEMOCRACY, visit www.cengage.com/politicalscience/ivoteformindtap. MindTap Political Science for Gateways to Democracy is an online learning solution that combines the full text’s readings, along with multimedia, activities and assessments, and features that keep your course as current as you’d like. Our KnowNow American Government blog is updated 3x a week with current events and associated discussion questions, automatically making MindTap up-to-date with today’s news. Faculty can use MindTap as a turnkey solution or easily customize by adding up to the minute news stories, YouTube videos, RSS feeds, or their own documents directly within it. Students will also appreciate that with MindTap everything is in one place – the eBook, activities, flashcards, quizzes, dictionary, and more – making study time more efficient. They can even have the book read out loud to them via MindTap if they are on the go! Through its assignable, auto-gradable activities written to learning outcomes, students are presented with ample opportunities to check for understanding, while also being encouraged to consider opposing viewpoints. MindTap also provides tutorials to help students become better writers, and they will also be prompted to analyze infographics, an all-important skill in building visual literacy. 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.