Resources to help students engage with research and challenging concepts
Norton’s integrated suite of learning resources included with the Sixth Edition of Microbiology: An Evolving Science makes the text more assignable, accessible, and supportive of student success than ever before.
Norton Illumine Ebook
The Norton Illumine Ebook provides a better way to learn and study through engaging and motivational features that illuminate core concepts for all students in a supportive, interactive, and low-stakes environment.
Research Activities in each chapter allow students to delve further into the details of a research study.
Narrated animations and research videos are embedded in the text to give students a visual in-depth look at challenging concepts and processes.
Check Your Understanding questions with rich answer-specific feedback build student confidence in their learning and keep them on track with the material.
Instructors can promote student accountability with our easy-to-use assignment tools and by adding their own content and notes.
- Four Current Research Updates from 2024 have been added into the ebook to highlight new research techniques that have applications in health and industry—demonstrating the ever-evolving nature of microbiology.
Smartwork
Smartwork online homework ensures that students can apply core concepts, think critically, and build proficiency with analyzing primary literature. Smartwork makes it easy for you to assign the figures and research from the text.
Questions, all written by experienced microbiology instructors, go beyond simple multiple-choice formats with a wide array of dynamic question types—with many including charts, figures, and artwork from the book. They span a variety of difficulty levels.
New questions based on research videos and animations ensure students visualize and understand core concepts.
Primary literature questions require students to analyze and respond to readings and research.
Premade chapter assignments are ready-to-go, while customization options give you the ability to add your own questions, edit assignments, or create activities from scratch using our question library.
Links to the ebook, book-specific hints, and answer-specific feedback provide real-time intervention for students that are struggling.
- The convenience of LMS integration saves you time by allowing Smartwork scores to be reported directly to your LMS gradebook.
Animations and
Research Videos
Animations and movies in the ebook bring the vibrant art program alive and guide students through the course’s most challenging concepts in a visually compelling and clear way.
We offer 45 animations that amplify key concepts and research videos that are taken directly from referenced research articles, and that show moving micrographs and 3D representations.
These visual tools are embedded in the Norton Illumine Ebook and are also available standalone to show in class.
All the animations are made assignable through dynamic Smartwork questions to ensure that students are getting the most out of the resource.
Our animations are all book-specific so that representations are all cohesive.
Norton Teaching Tools
The Norton Teaching Tools site is your first stop when looking for creative, diverse resources. This searchable and sortable site is available to you as you look to either refresh your syllabus or design a new one.
Content includes active learning activities, primary literature suggestions, lecture PowerPoints, recommended readings, and more.
Resources are aligned with chapter topics, organized by activity type, and tagged to a common set of learning objectives.
All content is created by dynamic and experienced microbiology instructors.
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