You will automatically transition to the Modified Mastering platform when you copy your existing Mastering course or create a new course. Find out what to expect — and what's better in Modified Mastering.

Mastering Geology Features

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Empower learners

Pearson+

Pearson+ is available within your Mastering course. It gives your students instant access to your course eTextbook and study tools, in one intuitive interface. Designed for students, by students, Pearson+ lets them choose how they learn best. They can listen to the audiobook, find what they need with enhanced search, and study their own way with notes and flashcards. The app lets them read where life takes them, no wi-fi needed.

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Project Condor Videos

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Expand the ways students learn

Project Condor Videos

The Project Condor video series captures stunning footage of the Mountain West region, using a quadcopter and a GoPro camera. The videos have been created with annotation, sketching, and narrations to improve the way students learn about monoclines, streams, and terraces. Each video is also accompanied by assessment to test what students take away.

Bring the field to your students

GigaPan® Activities

GigaPan Activities take advantage of the GigaPan high-resolution panoramic picture technology developed by Carnegie Mellon University in conjunction with NASA. GigaPans are gigapixel panoramas—digital images with billions of pixels. These activities allow students to have a virtual field experience by exploring these Gigapan images, including the ability to zoom in on these huge panoramas and look at every fascinating detail.

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Gigapan Activity

Mobile Field Trips

On each Mobile Field Trip, students accompany geologist–pilot–photographer Michael Collier in the air and on the ground to see and learn about landscapes that relate to discussions in the text. In Mastering, these videos are accompanied by auto-gradable assessments that track what students have learned.

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Mobile Field Trip

Enable students to develop 21st-Century skills

MapMaster™ 2.0 Interactive Map Activities

MapMaster 2.0 is a GIS inspired, digital atlas tool, that allows students to layer various thematic maps to analyze spatial patterns and data at regional and global scales. Now fully mobile, this tool includes zoom and annotation functionality with hundreds of map layers leveraging recent data from sources such as NOAA, NASA, USGS, United Nations, and the CIA. Students can also upload their own data. Students are able to access MapMaster 2.0 in the Study Area for self-study, and instructors can assign auto-graded activities.

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Early Alerts
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Increase student retention in your course

Early Alerts

Early Alerts use predictive analytics based on a student’s work in Mastering, such as correct answers on the first try. This information helps identify struggling students as early as possible — even if their assignment scores are not a cause for concern. This insight enables instructors to provide support when students need it so they can stay — and succeed — in the course.

Bring key chapter concepts from the textbook to life

SmartFigure™ Tutorials

SmartFigures are comprised of five different types of dynamic media, including videos, animations, and tutorials — all designed to help students visualize processes and concepts, and to bring geology to life! SmartFigures are available in the Mastering Geology Study Area, embedded in the eText, or can be assigned.

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Provide engaging ways for students to learn from data

GraphIt! Activities

GraphIt! Coaching activities help students read, interpret, and create graphs that explore real environmental issues using real data. All activities explore current topics such as the carbon footprint of food, fresh water availability, and ocean acidification in an entirely new mobile experience with accessible design.

Personalize learning for each student

Dynamic Study Modules

Dynamic Study Modules are assignable modules that adapt to each student’s performance and offer personalized, targeted feedback to help them master key concepts. Available for select titles. 

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Link from your LMS to Mastering Geology and Mastering Oceanography

Link from your LMS to Mastering Geology and Mastering Oceanography

Learning Management System (LMS) Integration

You can link from Blackboard Learn, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, or Moodle to Mastering Geology and Mastering Oceanography.* Access assignments, rosters, and resources, and synchronize grades with your LMS gradebook.

For students, single sign-on provides access to all the personalized learning resources that make studying more efficient and effective.

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*Note that LMS integration is available only for Modified Mastering Geology and Mastering Oceanography.

Additional Features

Imagine the impact of first-day access on your course

Offering course content through the Pearson Inclusive Access model can help students achieve more by providing affordable, high-quality digital course materials on or before the first day of class. Because all students have access by day one, faculty can start teaching and students can start learning. Learn more about Inclusive Access.

Everything you need in an easy-to-use format

Mastering provides a rich and flexible set of pre-built courses and assignments to get you started quickly. These assets can be used as is or customized to fit your specific teaching needs. The Calendar View on the course home page displays upcoming assignments and due dates, so you can easily stay organized. Questions are now easy to edit and delete for assignments and courses.

A powerful gradebook & analytics

The Mastering gradebook records all scores for graded assignments. Struggling students and challenging assignments are highlighted in red, giving you an at-a-glance view of potential hurdles in the course. The robust diagnostics within Mastering provide unique insight - with a single click, you can view charts that summarize the most difficult problems, identify vulnerable students, and indicate grade distribution and score improvement.

Learning Catalytics gives every student a voice

With Learning Catalytics™, you'll hear from every student when it matters most. You pose a variety of questions that help students recall ideas, apply concepts, and develop critical-thinking skills. Your students respond using their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops. Watch a video and learn more.

Wrong-answer feedback personalized for each student

Using data gathered from all of the students using the program, Mastering offers wrong-answer feedback that is specific to each student. Rather than simply providing feedback of the "right/wrong/try again" variety, Mastering guides students towards the correct final answer without giving the answer away.

Hints that offer clear guidance to students

Mastering provides hints of two types that help students work through, and ultimately solve, problems. Declarative hints provide advice on how to approach the problem, guiding students to the final answer. Socratic hints break a problem down into smaller sub-problems, which makes it easier for students to complete the original problem.

Dynamic, best-in-class content

Mastering is continually improving based on data generated through classroom use, resulting in content that is driven by the performance of actual students. We make corrections to improve problems that have ambiguous answer choices, ineffectual detractors, or tricky language, and continue to strengthen each problem through ongoing review of the data generated by Mastering students.

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