Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

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Questions

1. What is The Learning Equation?
   
   
2. Is The Learning Equation really free to adopting institutions?
   
   
3. Why would you allow us to install ALL course products when we may be adopting The Learning Equation for only one section?
   
   
4. What do we need to do to evaluate The Learning Equation?
   
   
5. How was The Learning Equation developed?
   
   
6. Is The Learning Equation really the only courseware product that runs on both Microsoft’ Windows® and Macintosh?
   
   
7. Does The Learning Equation go along with any particular textbook or does it have its own books?
   
   
8. What will be included in the Course Management System?
   
   
9. Does The Learning Equation come with a test generator?
   
   
10. Can the scope of instruction be modified?
    
    
11. Where does The Learning Equation fit on the traditional versus reform approach continuum?
    
    
12. Does The Learning Equation only have multiple choice questions, or are there direct input answers as well?
    
    
13. Is the Student Software time-locked?
    
    
14. Can students sell the Student Software and Workbook back?
    
    
15. Do you have experts who can come to my institution and hold an implementation workshop to help instructors learn how to use The Learning Equation in their classroom?
    
    
16. Do we need our own server or can Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning‘ provide servers for us?
    
    
17. Can the content of The Learning Equation lessons be customized?
    
    
18. Is there a way to move through the content to evaluate The Learning Equation more efficiently without having to answer every question that’s asked?
    
    
19. Can students receive partial credit for the answers they input into The Learning Equation?
    
    
20. Does The Learning Equation use Maple or any other computer algebra system?
    
    
21. Is there a demonstration CD for The Learning Equation?
    
    
22. Is it true that students must answer all questions in a section to get through it?
    
    
23. Practice & Problems - the jeopardy board--they do not have to do all of the questions on the board before they go on to take the quiz...do they?
    
    
24. I remember integrated tiles, but were there integrated calculators? Is the expectation that the students will be using calculators?
    
    
25. If a student has a printer, he could print out the quizzes and turn them in. Can he take the quizzes many, many times until he gets a 100 and then turn them in? If a student does not have a printer, can they be emailed to me, loaded on a disk and turned in to me or printed at schooland then turned in?
    
    
26. I read the research (the independent statistical study of the effectiveness of TLE versus traditional textbook courses) last night only to discover that it was all done in high schools with teachers in the classrooms at all times. I was hoping that it had actually been developed as a distance learning tool.