Mobile Computing
Cengage Intros MindTap Apps for Digital Content
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/02/15
Education publishing company Cengage Learning has launched native mobile app editions
of its digital content platform, MindTap. MindTap is available for 520 of
Cengage's course areas and delivers a number of student functions — reading, homework, quizzes and flashcards. The new
iOS and
Android apps put some of those features
into a mobile form to allow users to access the material on their smartphones in available "pockets of time."
MindTap Mobile is intended to act as a workflow manager for students. They're notified when an instructor sends a message, changes a due
date or alters a grade. They can set reminders for what's due; review prebuilt flashcards or make their own; and take chapter-specific quizzes
or generate self-quizzes from the flashcard deck.
"We set out to create a mobile product that adapts to students' busy lives outside of the classroom," said MindTap Product Director Jared
Mann in a prepared statement. "MindTap Mobile represents a subset of the MindTap experience that students told us would be most useful to have
available right from their phone."
About the Author
Dian Schaffhauser is a senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal and Campus Technology. She can be reached at dian@dischaffhauser.com or on Twitter @schaffhauser.