What Is MySocLab?

The moment you know.

Educators know it. Students know it. It’s that inspired moment when something that was difficult to understand suddenly makes perfect sense. Our MyLab products have been designed and refined with a single purpose in mind–to help educators create that moment of understanding with their students.

The new MySocLab delivers proven results in helping individual students succeed. It provides engaging experiences that personalize, stimulate, and measure learning for each student. And, it comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students, instructors, and departments achieve their goals.

MySocLab can be used by itself or linked to any learning management system. To learn more about how the new MySocLab combines proven learning applications with powerful assessment, visit http://www.pearsonhighered.com/newmylabs.

Appropriate Courses

MySocLab is available for Introductory Sociology, Social Problems, and Race & Ethnic Relations courses.

Features and Benefits

MySocLab delivers proven results in helping individual students succeed.

• Pearson MyLabs are currently in use by millions of students each year across a variety of disciplines.
• MySocLab works—but don’t take our word for it. Visit our MyLab / Mastering site to read white papers, case studies, and testimonials from instructors and students that consistently demonstrate the success of our MyLabs.

MySocLab provides engaging experiences that personalize, stimulate, and measure learning for each student.

• Core Concepts Videos feature commentary from leading sociologists on core concepts in sociology.

• Independent Film Series are documentary film clips, composed of over 90 minutes of video, exploring social issues around the globe.

• Sociology in Focus Blog is a new platform for ideas, stories, and insights into sociology and the world around us.

• MySocLibrary offers over 200 classic and contemporary articles that enable students to explore the discipline more deeply. Multiple-choice questions for each reading help students review what they’ve learned—and allow instructors to monitor their performance.
• Social Explorer offers interactive census data, from 1790–present, to help students understand, and perform their own, research.
• The Pearson eText lets students access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want—including listening online or downloading to iPad.
• A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking—like remembering and understanding—to more complex critical thinking—like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.
• Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.
• An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
• Class Prep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.

MySocLab comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students, instructors, and departments achieve their goals.

• Pearson supports instructors with workshops, training, and assistance from Pearson Faculty Advisors–so you get the help you need to make MySocLab work for your course.
• Pearson gathers feedback from instructors and students during the development of content and the feature enhancement of each release—to ensure that our products meet your needs