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A Guide to the Courseware Selection Process

A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding, Evaluating, and Selecting Courseware

This guide to the courseware selection process is intended to equip educators and administrators with information and resources to understand, evaluate, and choose a courseware platform. Inside you will find a definition of courseware, a summary of the different types of courseware, an explanation of features, courseware evaluation tools, and more. This guide provides a detailed comparison of Macmillan Learning's Achieve versus McGraw Hill's Connect and ALEKS, as well as a handy rubric that you can use for your own selection process.


Pedagogical differences between Macmillan Learning’s Achieve and McGraw Hill’s Connect and ALEKS

Guided by research and science, Macmillan Learning is committed to providing features and tools to support the most effective pedagogical practices and help students develop the skills necessary to become lifelong learners. With Achieve, these metacognitive features have been woven into the very fabric of the platform - designed to support instructors and learners.


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Student learning differences between McGraw Hill and Achieve

What sets Achieve apart from competitors is the breadth and depth of resources specifically designed to provide students with personalized learning experiences, real-time feedback to self-correct, and support to learn at their own pace - including the ability to self-reflect and set goals and strategies for success. Additionally, access to the iClicker student app is included with Achieve at no additional cost for most courses.

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User Experience between McGraw Hill and Achieve

Achieve and McGraw Hill each have several tools that aim to address similar teaching and learning needs, but how those tools are developed, maintained, and innovated varies greatly. Achieve was developed and is continuously being improved to create a single, intuitive platform that works for the user. 

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Feature differences between McGraw Hill and Achieve

At first glance, it can be difficult to discern key differences between courseware solutions. Various courseware platforms appear to have similar offerings but have differentiators that, depending on what matters most to you as an educator, can have a significant impact on your course and your student’s success. Our full guide provides a comprehensive breakdown between Macmillan Learning’s courseware, Achieve, and McGraw Hill.


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Benefits & Features

Achieve is a fully mobile, accessible, flexible, modular system to help you deploy and manage all your pre-class, in-class, and post-class curriculum in one place (and integrate it with your LMS if preferred), while gathering insights from it all in a simple and powerful interface.

Achieve also includes:

Interactive e-Book
Pre-built and Customizable Assessments
Vetted and Tested In-Class Activities
Reports & Insights
Full Gradebook
Integration Options for iClicker and Your Campus LMS
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How Likely Would You Be to Recommend Achieve to a Colleague?

82% of students reported actively learning in their course this semester

88% of students* reported that Achieve activities were engaging

3.26 out of 4 instructors strongly agree that Achieve can enhance learning in this course.

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