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Immerse students in learning
People learn best by doing. Revel puts students in the driver's seat on their learning journey.
Revel® integrates interactives and assessments into a compelling digital narrative. By applying concepts as they read, students immerse themselves in learning, deepening their understanding.
It's your class, but their journey. Inspire learners to claim ownership with Revel.
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Facilitate active learning to help students succeed
Revel enables students to read, practice and study in one continuous experience, anywhere and anytime.
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Foster immersive learning
Active participation is the key to learning. Videos and interactives throughout the narrative empower students to analyze and apply concepts as they read.
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Stay on track
Assessing student progress helps you keep the class on track. The educator dashboard yields performance insights that let you adjust your focus as needed.
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Enable access anywhere
Both you and your students are always on the go. That’s why the Revel app enables access on all your devices, anywhere and anytime.
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Deliver top content
Great content helps students think and reason. Revel combines world-class content, by top thought leaders, with tools supporting concept mastery.
Key features
Embedded assessments
Practice makes perfect. Embedded assessments in Revel allow you to gauge student understanding and improve comprehension.
Shared writing assignments
Writing is a great way to boost comprehension. Shared writing assignments in Revel encourage critical thinking and facilitate dialogue among peers.
Shared multimedia assignments
Many students today are savvy creators. Shared multimedia assignments enable you and your students to easily post and respond to videos and other media.
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Increasing student preparedness and success with Revel
By Liz Lebold
“It’s the best textbook I’ve ever read because there is no fluff and it’s easy to read,” says an economics student at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). “You actually want to read it.”
A textbook college students want to read?
Unusual though it may seem, many economics students at UNCG express comments like these, ever since their professor began using Revel: Microeconomics Interactive, 1st Edition by Parkin, Bade, and Sarbaum.
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Transforming Computer Programming Education with Revel
By Liz Lebold
In the computer science department at Houston Community College, instructors Anci Shah and Suma Roa undertook a transformative journey with Revel.
In 2019, Suma initiated a pilot of Revel. Impressed by the platform’s digital narrative, online homework features, and diverse resources, Suma shared her enthusiasm with her colleagues, prompting the department chair Anci to consider Revel's adoption.
Revel promotes active learning
The student learning experience was a key consideration for Anci and her department committee. They saw that, as the number of online courses being created at Houston Community College increased, Revel's interactivity would prove vital to enabling students in those courses to succeed.
"The concepts are kept to a minimum, and the readings aren't too long, and then there are all those little checks in there,” says Anci. “My students have commented on how helpful that has been."
Suma echoes this sentiment, praising the variety of practical features in Revel that help promote active learning, including built-in search, note taking, and flashcard functionalities.
Revel adapts to students’ needs
Another important factor for the committee was finding a courseware solution that could meet each student wherever they are in their learning journey. They appreciated that Revel provided a bridge for students with varying levels of digital literacy to learn the material and stay engaged in their courses.
“I have definitely had a lot of students say that Revel really helped them,” Anci says. "I have received feedback that the animations and videos are what helped them understand the material a lot better.”
Students can test their understanding through quizzes and self-checks in Revel. Suma often advises her students to complete these questions prior to taking assessments because, “they are a good way to gauge their topic mastery and provide ample opportunity for studying."
Revel's accessibility – specifically via the Revel mobile app – impressed students and instructors alike. Suma notes, "They no longer have any excuses that they don't have their textbook because they always have their phones.”
Revel makes course administration easier
The committee also assessed Revel based on LMS integration and publisher support.
"The grades in Revel are incorporated into our LMS very easily,” says Suma. “We can incorporate them with the click of a button, so that's been very, very helpful." Indeed, she and her colleagues found that integrating Revel into Houston Community College’s existing learning management system helped streamline various administrative processes.
Overall, Revel surpassed the computer science department’s expectations, leading to its adoption for the courses Program Fundamentals 1, 2, and 3.
When asked whether she would recommend Revel to other instructors, Anci says definitely and references the overarching goal of Revel: student success.
“If you are looking at one book versus another, Revel is the one that has all the animations and embedded assessments to help students. Why would you not choose it?” she says. “We just want our students to be successful, and Revel can help.”
Revel is the clear choice for students and instructors
Revel was purposely built for students and instructors. The platform has emerged as a catalyst for transformative education, enriching the experiences of computer programming students at Houston Community College and setting a standard for comprehensive, engaging learning.
Read more about Dr. Anci Shah and Dr. Suma Roa’s experience with Revel in the full instructor spotlight.
What can Revel do for you and your students? Learn more about Revel.
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Tackle teaching challenges with Revel
By Liz Lebold
Think about your first teaching experience in higher education.
What was it like? Did you feel prepared to address your students’ learning needs?
“In higher education, we aren’t necessarily taught how to be teachers,” says Anakira Gabriela, a tenured instructor and Pearson representative. “Most of us were thrown out there with, ‘Okay, you know your discipline. Now go teach that.’”
But managing learning objectives, assessment design, lesson planning, and individual student intervention is difficult for experienced instructors, let alone new ones.
That’s where the right courseware can help. In a recent webinar, Anakira explains how Revel gives instructors the content and information they need to help their students thrive. She describes how she uses Revel to help students understand who they are as learners and to provide them with more targeted feedback and assistance.
Content that facilitates learning
No two brains learn alike.
A student’s genetics, environment, and current emotional state all play a role in how they process information, meaning that instructors must consider the impact of neurodiversity when designing and delivering their courses.
As Anakira points out, “If a student doesn't feel safe in their environment, if they don't feel like their needs are being listened to or accommodated, then they tend to start to shut down to the learning process itself.”
That’s why she begins her courses by helping students understand how they learn best, and showing them how the content in Revel can support their learning style.
She uses the example of reading a book on how to work out versus actually going for a workout to demonstrate the difference between passive learning (e.g. just reading a textbook) and active learning (e.g. interacting with multimedia content within courseware).
“Stagnant reading from print is one of the least effective ways to learn,” says Anakira. “Many students need the auditory stimulation of embedded videos or the audio version. And they need that kinesthetic experience of interacting with the content.”
Throughout the webinar, Anakira also discusses how instructors can use Revel to facilitate spaced practice, combat the fluency illusion, and more.
Actionable information and feedback
Giving regular formative assessments and providing meaningful feedback is one of the most effective methods for helping students understand whether they are on track. But building and grading these types of assessments takes a tremendous amount of time that many instructors don’t have.
Anakira has been able to save a lot of time by using Revel to create, assign, and grade formative assessments.
“One of the things Revel does is it allows you to be the guide on the side instead of the sage on the stage,” says Anakira. “You are there to construct a well-designed course where you are coaching your students through the learning process.”
That coaching is made even more effective because instructors who use Revel have access to in-depth analytics about their students’ progress and performance, allowing them to intervene in a timely and personalized manner.
In the webinar, Anakira offers specific tips for using the feedback and analytics in Revel to enhance students’ learning experiences.
Designed for success
Higher education instructors have an unparalleled depth of knowledge about their fields. The correct courseware can give them the time and energy to design courses that effectively instill that knowledge and a passion for lifelong learning in their students.
“How do teachers want to teach? How do students want to learn?” says Anakira, “That’s how Revel was designed from the get-go.”
Check out Anakira’s on-demand webinar for more in-depth information about transforming teaching and learning with Revel.
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Webinars & events
Check out live webinars and on-demand recordings to hear from educators as they share teaching strategies and ideas.
They Might not Read It, But They’ll Always Watch It!
Join Dr. Terri Moore to understand how to leverage Revel and use videos in your classroom to engage your students more fully with course concepts and assess their mastery of course principles.
Recorded: at Read More
Duration: 30 minutes
They Won’t Read! What’s a Teacher To Do?
Terri Moore demonstrates in this session how Revel, as an interactive student content delivery system, engages students with activities embedded in their reading that are gradable and trackable, preparing them for deeper summative assessments of their learning.
Recorded: at Read More
Duration: 30 minutes
Audience-Centered Teaching: How to Use Communication Strategies to be Student-Centered
Join Dr. Steven Beebe as he offers ways of enhancing and assessing your instruction, whether in-person or online, applying skills and techniques to keep students engaged in the learning process.
Recorded: at Read More
Duration: 30 minutes
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“Overall, Revel really helps keep students engaged, so their performance improves. When we were in a standard class where I gave paper and pencil quizzes, they ran towards a B- average. With Revel, they are pushing towards an A-. I think it’s because the embedded quizzes help keep them focused and help reinforce comprehension. That improves their confidence and improves their mood.”
– David Kiracofe, full-time professor of History at a two-year school in the southeast