Teaching Tip: Myomlab Improves Learning (and evaluations)

I have just completed 5 days at the 2011 Academy of Management meeting in San Antonio where activities began at 7am and went well into the evening. And almost 8,000 people were on the program! The OM division alone has 722 members. I met with many colleagues who are using the Heizer / Render text, some with and some without the myomlab option. Therefore, as we begin this semester, I want to encourage those who are not using myomlab to do so.  The students love it. They learn more. And your evaluations go up. Those are real payoffs.

Myomlab, which Barry and I have been refining for several years, is now a mature product. Additionally, Pearson continues to enhance the underlying platform with more options. Myomlab includes the end of chapter problems, as well as the T/F and multiple-choice questions from the text bank. The result is  a very rich set of exercises that allows you to focus on the topics and style of class you want to teach.  Additionally, Howard Weiss has enhanced the POMs for Windows software and Excel templates  with a ‘cut and paste’ feature that facilitates easy transfer of problem data into those software packages. Howard particularly likes this feature because it allows him to assign many problems and devote more class time to interpreting results.

Use of myomlab also opens up some book options that can reduce cost to the student. Your sales rep or our editor Chuck Synovec (chuck.synovec@pearson.com) can tell you more about the various options. Pearson also has talent available to aid you with any coaching you may want when starting and using myomlab.