Norton Illumine Ebook

The Norton Illumine Ebook for The Real World uses interactives, video, and other rich multimedia to teach core concepts and theories in ways that support students’ varied learning styles. Embedded Check Your Understanding questions with rich answer-specific feedback tied to learning objectives allow students to assess their comprehension after reading short sections of text.

• New Theory in Everyday Life interactives in the Norton Illumine Ebook provide students with additional help understanding key sociological perspectives, walking them through a case study and assessing their understanding with multiple-choice and drag-and-drop questions.  
• New Dynamic Data Figures in the Norton Illumine Ebook help students become more savvy consumers of quantitative data. For example, Dynamic Data Figures in the chapter on social class bring data on poverty rates and income inequality to life. Each Dynamic Data Figure includes a Check Your Understanding question, ensuring students don’t skip over them. 
• New short Sociology in Practice video clips in the Norton Illumine Ebook elucidate a key concept from the chapter or help students apply what they’ve learned by seeing a chapter concept “in practice.”  

InQuizitive

InQuizitive is Norton’s easy-to-use, adaptive learning tool that personalizes the learning experience for students and helps them master key sociological concepts and theories. When completed as a pre-lecture assignment, InQuizitive ensures that students come to class better prepared, giving instructors more time for meaningful discussions, activities, and Data Workshops.

• Answer-specific feedback helps students better understand key concepts and theories.
• Game-like elements, like the ability to wager points based on confidence level, keep students engaged throughout the assignment.
• InQuizitive can be integrated with your Learning Management system, allowing you to easily track students' progress in your gradebook.

Online Data Workshops

Online Data Workshops have students go out into the real world to get hands-on experience with the methods of sociological research, whether it’s participant observation research, content analysis, survey research, or an interview study. 

• Each online Data Workshop includes a “What Do You Know?” section that builds student confidence by asking them to recall what they already know about related chapter concepts before beginning the workshop.
• An “Apply” section at the end of each online Data Workshop asks students to apply what they’ve learned in the workshop to concepts in that particular chapter as well as in Chapter 2: “Research Methods.” 
• Every online Data Workshop includes ebook links to relevant sections in Chapter 2: “Research Methods” so students can easily review the research method they are using to complete the Workshop.