What Is MyCrimeLab?
MyCrimeLab is Allyn & Bacon's new interactive online teaching and learning system. MyCrimeLab uses powerful multimedia and technology resources to bring Criminal Justice to life, making teaching and learning more productive, more satisfying, more exciting! MyCrimeLab is easy to use — and it's FREE with an Allyn & Bacon intro Criminal Justice textbook.
Designed to accommodate a range of instructor needs, MyCrimeLab can be used to enhance a traditional course or as a complete online course solution. Text content is conveniently pre-loaded, and instructors can customize MyCrimeLab to fit their course needs.
Appropriate Courses
MyCrimeLab is appropriate for use in an introductory criminal justice course. See a list of participating texts.
Features for Instructors
- Each MyCrimeLab course matches the organization of the accompanying textbook. Preloaded content for every chapter of the accompanying textbook allows instructors to use MyCrimeLab as is or to customize MyCrimeLab with their own materials.
- Provides easy, one-stop access to a wealth of teaching resources, such as test item files, PowerPoint™ slides, and video suggestions.
- A built-in electronic gradebook tracks students' progress on the integrated chapter tests.
- Course Compass tracking allows instructors to determine where students are accessing the multimedia textbook.
- CourseCompass communication tools give instructors a means to hold online office hours, host a discussion board, create communication groups within class, send email messages, and much more.
Features for Students
- Icons placed in context throughout the E-book let students launch multimedia resources that help explain concepts and materials from the textbook. This multimedia includes an audio glossary, video clips, an Interactive Terrorism TimeLine, PowerPoint™ slides, and activities-directly from the location where the topic is discussed in the text.
- Video interviews with police officers, parole officers, judges, and others enable students to learn first-hand from professionals currently working in a variety of Criminal Justice fields.
- Supplemental study notes ensure students understand key concepts.
- An Audio Glossary launches an audio file when a student clicks on a highlighted word or phrase, allowing the user to hear the exact pronunciation and definition.
- Results from structured test and quiz opportunities in each chapter generate an Individual Study Plan for each student, showing exactly which topics he or she needs to review.
- Research Navigator™, Pearson Education's exclusive database of reliable source material — including the EBSCO Academic Journal and Abstract Database and The New York Times Search by Subject Archive — helps students quickly and efficiently make the most of their research time. Research Navigator™ — a $15 value — is FREE to your students with MyCrimeLab.
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