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Preparing Your Students for CompTIA Certifications – zyBooks Guide

No credentials in information technology are more crucial than CompTIA certifications. Here’s how to help your students best prepare for them.

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Computer Science

Ten Strategies for Preventing Cheating in Coding Class – zyBooks Guide

Here at zyBooks, we’re getting more questions about cheating than ever before. In this post, we share strategies you can use in your classroom right now that have been shown to substantially reduce cheating.

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Learning Content, Your Way: How to Customize Your zyBooks Course

zyBooks offers powerful built-in customization that makes it fast and easy to the create course material you want.

Disciplines

Innovative thinking, strategies and techniques for core STEM subjects.

Information Technology

Six Best Practices for Teaching IT Security – zyBooks Guide

These best practices for teaching IT security will keep students engaged, excited and, most importantly, retaining what they’re learning.

Engineering

A Better Way to Assign Homework in Engineering

What if we can ask students formative questions as they go through the material – and help them understand the answers in real time?

Computer Science

Autograding Primer for CS – zyBooks Guide

In this post, I’ll help you supercharge your autograding efforts. I’ll share insights on how to use autograding to improve how you teach and how your students learn. And I’ll walk you through the three most important autograding methodologies and how to use them.

Teaching Excellence

Actionable insights for teaching STEM, by instructors, for instructors.

Why LTI 1.3 makes life easier for students – and instructors

Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is one of those unheralded topics in education, but it’s an important one. A new release, LTI 3.1, will transform how you teach.

How to Help Students Get Better in Math (Video)

Here’s how to shore up bedrock math concepts through a novel approach that’s at once fun, accessible, and directly relevant to students’ lives.

Teaching Statistics with Simulation-Based Inference

Finding effective ways to teach complex statistical concepts is crucial for student success. Simulation-Based Inference (SBI) is an approach I’ve incorporated into my courses to meet this challenge. You should put it to work in your classroom, too.

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What’s cooking at zyBooks – research, whitepapers, thought leadership, and more.

New Block Proof Tool To Power Discrete Math Instruction

The new block proof tool gives instructors the capability to directly assess and teach proof writing skills and do it at scale.

Improving the Student Experience with zyBooks

Researchers at DeVry University wanted to find out if zyBooks could overcome challenges they saw with traditional textbooks. So how did zyBooks stack up against print textbooks?

Introducing Advanced zyLabs

We’re excited to announce that zyBooks’ Advanced zyLabs beta release is now available for developing instructor-created content.

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