CURRENCY: highly updated pictures, topics and examples
Benefit : Instructor Benefit: Concepts are relevant and up-to-date for easy explanation. Student Benefit: Students learn about the latest information in a relevant context for easy understanding. RELEVANCY: students can relate to material/concepts
Benefit : Instructor Benefit: Students understand material faster and have better perception of why they need this course. Student Benefit: Students can relate to material and understand how they will use this information later in career. CAREERS IN IT: Each chapter includes a job description for a different career in Information Technology. These descriptions provide students with education requirements, as well as salary range. END OF CHAPTER MATERIAL – The end of chapter material has been revised and redefined, making it easy for instructors and students to exercise different skill sets. *Applying Technology: Making correlations between chapter material and real life. *Expanding Your Knowledge: Citing sources other than the textbook to learn more about a specific topic, which encourages students to dig deeper to obtain a more technical understanding. *Writing about Technology: Sharpening critical thinking, analysis, and writing skills by responding to technology-related issues such as privacy, security and ethics. APPLICATION-BASED MATERIAL – Features updated coverage of new Windows and Mac operating systems, expanded coverage of e-commerce and new material in the following thought-provoking sections: Look to the Future Making IT Work for You On the Web Explorations. STRONG CONCEPT REINFORCEMENT: Concept Checks, Crossword Puzzles, Multiple-Choice, and Matching Exercises offer students the chance to become concept experts. VISUALLY APPEALING CHAPTER OPENERS AND CLOSERS: Summaries for each chapter make it easy for students to review important concepts. ONLINE LEARNING CENTER (OLC) is a website that follows the text chapter-by-chapter. OLC content is ancillary and supplementary germane to the textbook, as students read the book, they can go online to take self-grading quizzes, review material, or work through interactive exercises. OLCs can be delivered multiple ways – professors and students can access them directly through the textbook website, through PageOut, or within a course management system (i.e. WebCT, Blackboard, TopClass, or eCollege.) INSTRUCTOR RESOURCE CD includes PowerPoint slides, instructor’s manual with solutions, and test bank. | 
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