The History of Art

Resources to help students think like art historians

The History of Art: A Global View is supported by a dynamic digital resource package, including an interactive ebook, the InQuizitive learning tool, a Student Site of study materials, and a suite of videos, animations, and panoramas. Accessibility is at the core of all the products we create, with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the most widely accepted voluntary international standard for accessibility, ensuring that all students will succeed in your course.

A book-specific learning package that can be adapted to your teaching approach.

The resources for The History of Art: A Global View provide students with a dynamic, comprehensive learning experience. The fully interactive ebook allows students to engage more deeply with what they read, and the suite of videos offers insights into important artists, techniques, and sites. InQuizitive ensures students engage with key learning objectives and works of art, and the Student Site offers materials for self-study.

InQuizitive

InQuizitive, an easy-to-use adaptive learning tool, offers students visual prompts and interactive questions to help them engage with the key concepts and global works of art. Embedded ebook links encourage students to refer back to the text as they work through the assignments.

Over 85% of questions feature images from the text, supporting the development of visual analysis skills.
Question types are varied and tagged to key learning objectives from each chapter.
A Seeing Connections InQuizitive assignment is available for both volumes, making this feature easily assignable and gradable.

Fully interactive ebook

The ebook for The History of Art: A Global View offers a dynamic and interactive reading experience. Students can take notes, bookmark, search, highlight, and even read offline. Instructors can also add notes for students to see as they read the text. Ebooks can be viewed on all computers and mobile devices.

Embedded videos, animations, and 360-degree panoramas provide a sensory, interactive learning experience, expanding upon the book’s content.
Zoomable images allow students to engage with featured art and illustrations.
In-text definitions and an embedded audio pronunciation guide provide key definitions and illustrate the pronunciation of unfamiliar names and phrases.

Suite of videos, animations, and 360-degree panoramas

A curated selection of over 200 videos, including interviews with contemporary artists, animations illustrating selected “Looking More Closely” and “Making It Real” features, and 360-degree panoramas focusing on important sites from across the globe. Available standalone and embedded in the ebook.

Videos from major museums—including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum—highlight contemporary artists and explore key works.
Looking More Closely and Making It Real animations provide detailed visual analysis and illustrate artistic processes.
Interactive 360-degree panoramas transport students to sites in Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas, providing a sensory learning experience.

Learn how our tools can be used before, during, and after your online or in-person class.

1. Course Design

For Students

Accessibility is a central fixture of Norton and Thames & Hudson products, and we believe that affordability and accessibility go hand-in-hand. To meet the greatest range of requirements, we follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and strive for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance across all products.

For Instructors

On-demand support from a dedicated customer success manager, who will consult on course design, integrate our tools into your LMS, and provide ongoing support. In a recent survey, 91 percent of instructors felt supported or very supported using Norton learning tools.

2. Before Class

For Students

Read the interactive ebook. The interactive ebook allows students to take notes, highlight text, and read footnotes and glosses via easy pop-up annotations. The ebook features 1,600 hi-res, expandable images of artworks. InQuizitive adaptive learning activities, 85% of which include images from the text, help students identify and visually analyze art, and practice art historical thinking. InQuizitive has activities for every chapter, with questions tagged to chapter learning objectives, and one activity per volume on the “Seeing Connections” features.

For Instructors

Assigning InQuizitive, which can integrate with your LMS, for 10–15% of the course points ensures that students complete the reading and understand important concepts. The Class Activity Report in InQuizitive identifies topics/learning objectives with which students are struggling. The instructor’s manual provides sample syllabi, teaching tips, and suggested online resources help you plan an engaging course, and chapter summaries to support teaching new material. The Global View Gallery provides more than 2,000 images.

3. During Online, Hybrid, or In-person Class

For Students

The ebook annotation tool makes it easy for students to refer to their notes during class. Videos and animations provide an in-depth look at specific artworks and important media, processes, and techniques. Students will be more comfortable saying unfamiliar terms in class thanks to the audio pronunciation guide. In-class activities foster an interactive class experience.

For Instructors

All images in the book, available in JPEG and PPT format with alt-text, are easy to use in class. Lecture PowerPoints feature bullet points of key topics from each section, images from the book—including slides offering comparative analyses of images shown side-by-side—plus lecture notes on some slides. Discussion prompts help you facilitate productive conversations.

4. After Class

For Students

With image and terminology flashcards, available as part of the Student Site, students can improve their recall of key terms and identification of specific works of art.

For Instructors

Norton Testmaker offers high-quality assessment to build quizzes, with more than 2,600 questions available, all of which are tagged to chapter Learning Outcomes and Bloom’s Taxonomy. More than half of the questions include images from the text. Norton Testmaker makes it easy to customize tests online and deliver them through your LMS or on paper.