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The world is entering a golden age of Generative AI, says Corinne Hoisington.

Accordingly, instructors can incorporate AI into creative text-based assessments so students learn more deeply.

10 ideas for using AI in assessments:

In the Blink of an AI: Shifting Assessments in a ChatGPT World - The Cengage Blog Professor and Cengage Author Corinne Hoisington discusses how faculty can use ChatGPT to help students think creatively and critically.

65% of students say they get distracted by digital devices. So, how can instructors engage students in a world of so many interruptions?

3 Higher Ed Trends Helping to Engage Students - The Cengage Blog Try these three higher ed trends in your courses to engage students and ensure they understand the subject matter.

One of GenAI’s most profound impacts in education could be its capacity to potentially democratise access to high-quality instruction, says Dr Goran Trajkovski on the Cengage blog.

What do you think the future holds for GenAI in education?

We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

When Ancient Wisdom Meets Byte-Sized Brilliance - The Cengage Blog Goran Trajkovski, Ph.D. explores how ancient philosophy seamlessly merges with the capabilities of AI in education.

Say hello to Ralph Berry, author on our Electrotechnology title Electrical Trade Practices. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
Use comprehension-type questions where the answers are easily found in the text or require some interpretation.

What inspires you about your field?
The ability to apply scientific knowledge to make life easier for ordinary people.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
My father and two of my uncles worked in telecoms and I always had old telephones and things to mess around with.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
The introduction of programmable controllers to industrial systems with monitoring and control over the internet.

When not working you are most likely to be …
Making electronic control and security projects, helping my adult children with work around their homes and volunteering with my local fire brigade.

Say hello to Geoff Arnott, author of our Community Services titles Individual Support Worker, Disability Support Worker, and Delivering Person Centred Services. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
Assess competence on an ongoing basis as a part of job placement rather than leaving on-the-job placement towards the end of class and/or online delivery. Simulations can be used as a part of assessment but assessment on the job is far preferable and is consistent with training package requirements. Assessment on the job is especially important for students [with English as their second language] who are in a much better position to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and attitude in the ‘real world situation’ involving their chosen field of work. I am conscious of the following quote from a student:
"I found the course very hard at first as there was so much to learn and I had to use my Thai dictionary a lot to understand what I needed to know … When I went on my course placement everything that I learnt made sense and I was able to apply what I had learnt."

What inspires you about your field?
The field provides care and support to people who would otherwise be faced with a dire future and there can be no higher form of service. I have always been conscious that there have been major problems in the sector but community service workers have produced positive outcomes to the best of their ability. It is only now that society seems to have recognised that remuneration for the workers has been insufficient but this has never impacted on their dedication to serve fellow Australians which is truly inspirational.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
After I became involved in 1987 as a Head of Department in course development and ongoing liaison with community service organisations.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
I was initially employed at Swinburne as a teacher/lecturer in history and modern government and this was before there was a TAFE system. I then became a part of the new TAFE system soon after 1974. In my view the most exciting development for community service programs were:
· The Kangan report and the setting up of the TAFE system and the incorporation of community service programs which were originally described as Social and Community Service Programs (SACS) Initially community service programs were localised and accredited internally. My first involvement was setting up a HACC program internally by Swinburne.
· Training packages which included nationally accredited community service programs.
· Movement away from outmoded medical-influenced delivery models to social models of delivery with a focus on individualised support plans, person-centred delivery and strength-based practices.

When not working I am most likely to be:
· at my country property in Wedderburn, Victoria
· on community radio 98.1 Eastern FM once a month talking about history and my history writing where I have written a number of publications
· running with Master athletics down at the Croydon athletics track
· at the Croydon RSL sub branch about once a fortnight
· chairing meetings of the Croydon History Society where I am President
· spending time in my garden and/or looking after my bird aviary as well as going to monthly meetings of the Australian Avicultural Society.

*Photo of Geoff at the book launch of one of his history publications

Say hello to Louise Alexander, author on Mental Health Nursing. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
To ensure that they integrate many of the concepts in sections one and three into their teaching of mental illness. For example, recovery should not be taught in isolation but rather should be integrated throughout all illness sections.

What inspires you about your field?
Working with students who have a realisation during class that mental health nursing could be a good career option for them.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
When I realised that using my communication skills were far more rewarding and powerful than any technical nursing skill I could do.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
The growing emphasis on person-centred care and recovery-oriented approaches that recognise the importance of empowering consumers to actively participate in their treatment and pursue meaningful goals.

When not working you are most likely to be …
Spending time with my family, reading history books or walking on the beach.

Say hello to Peter Phillips, author of Electrical Principles and Electrotechnology for Certificate II Principles and Practices. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
The Task and Review Questions can all be answered by reading the chapter. This is a great way to make students read the book.

What inspires you about your field?
Electricity is like oxygen, we cannot live without it today. Helping students understand it has always inspired me as a teacher and a writer.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
When I started my apprenticeship. I had initially selected a different trade, but I was recognised as being best suited to be an electrician.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
I love cars, and today’s electric cars are incredible. I have so far had two of them, and each one gets better.

When not working you are most likely to be …
In my workshop repairing old radios. I love new technology, but it is fun to dabble in old technology.

Say hello to Karen Theobald, author on the ANZ edition of Estes Health Assessment and Physical Examination. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
Share personal examples as you explain core concepts of learning. Students like to relate or understand how concepts apply to practice or reality.

What inspires you about your field?
Undertaking a health assessment and physical examination are foundational skills which should underpin all safe and effective nursing practice.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
When I realised there was nothing in the market that contextualised this core foundation knowledge and associated skills for Australian and New Zealand students of nursing and registered/advanced practice nurses.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
The growing recognition of the importance of nurses having great health assessment and physical examination knowledge and skill when making decisions for safe person-centred care.

When not working you are most likely to be …
Swimming three times a week at 5am in the morning with my Masters Swim squad group. We are presently swimming for ‘Laps for Life’ to raise $150,000 for adolescent mental health. Also, I love spending time with my family and friends.

Say hello to Shayne Fagan, author on Construction Pathways. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
The book provides a sound basis that allows teachers to engage students. Read through the book in the first instance and identify the items that they can relate back to their own experiences on the tools.

What inspires you about your field?
The construction industry contributes to the overall betterment of the country and to the individual. It allows for individuals who start out at the novice level to become high achievers in their selected trade and as a business person.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
The sense of achievement. When I first started I had to prime cypress pine cladding. It felt great that I was doing something with my time that was positive and I could see what I did by the end of the day. The end of the week, month and years.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
I believe the introduction of technology has improved working in the industry. Software programs have reduced book work and increased accuracy. Technology has contributed to the evolution of trade tools used on site.

When not working you are most likely to be …
I will be out in the workshop pouring resin over timber slabs and experimenting with different additives, colours and tints to create individual pieces of work.

Say hello to Jane Coffey, author on our title Human Resource Management. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
Make use of all the ‘add ons’ to make for a really rich learning experience: the HRM in Practice boxes, career tips and end of chapter questions and case studies.

What inspires you about your field?
As a former HR practitioner, I love the diversity a career in HR provides – it's never boring and is integral to the entire life cycle of an employee or contractor. I also find the challenges ahead exciting.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
My first degree was actually in Social Sciences so I was a social researcher. I was then lucky enough to be given an opportunity to act in a HR role and realized ‘this is what I want to do!’. I loved the challenges and the impact – even back in the 1980s!

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
For me, as I am an avid researcher and supporter of disadvantaged groups, it’s the focus on DEI and again the real impact has, and can have, in this area.

When not working you are most likely to be …
Oh dear – some of my secrets come out here! I'm either at the gym, in the garden or when its too hot or cold outside playing on my PS5. Of course, also spending time with my dog and two cats!

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6 Tips for Using SALT in WebAssign for Statistics - Cengage Blog SALT is great for engaging Statistics students. Get 6 tips for using the SALT data analysis tool in your WebAssign Statistics course.

Say hello to Lisa Kervin, author on our titles Research for Educators; and Teaching: Dilemmas, Challenges and Opportunities. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
As authors, we are all experienced educational researchers. You will hear our voices through the stories we share, the projects we talk about and the insights we offer.

What inspires you about your field?
Educational researchers want to make things better for those they work with - students, families and community.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
As a teacher, I had so many questions. I knew I needed a shift in career to enable me to find out more and hopefully some answers to those questions!

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
The possibilities for digital technologies for play, learning and teaching. It has been a privilege being a researcher in this area for some time and seeing the shifts and advances.

When not working you are most likely to be …
With my family, probably taking one of my children to soccer training!

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Say hello to Alan Nankervis, lead author on our title Human Resource Management: Strategy and Practice. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
It is crucial to inspire students, and my tip to instructors would be to encourage students to apply the SHRM theory and cases in the text to their own workplace experiences, whether as an employee or as a customer.

What inspires you about your field?
HRM has the potential to improve organisational productivity, enhance employee motivation and satisfaction, and contribute to a fairer and more innovative society, but we have a long way to go yet.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
I was working in a telecommunications company, and every day I observed examples of poor HRM practices and decided that we could do much better at it. Hence, I changed my discipline to HRM.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
The transition from pure managerialism to a more employee-centred and consultative approach, now enhanced by new technologies and leading to a more engaged workforce. Professionally, the pleasure of working with my co-authors and publisher, and having great feedback on the text from students.

When not working you are most likely to be …
Travelling, especially in Asia; socialising with friends, walking in nature, and attending live theatre.

*Image: (from left to right) co-author John Shields ( of Sydney), Cengage Product Manager Michelle Aarons ( Aarons), Alan (in yellow) and co-author Marian Baird ( of Sydney). Jane Coffey was absent.

While instructors try different approaches to try to prevent STEM students from cheating, this is constantly challenged by the availability of online resources where students can find answers to homework or assignment problems. Click the link to read this Cengage blog post about how WebAssign – the eLearning platform for maths, statistics, physics, astronomy and engineering – addresses the cheating challenge, with no extra effort required by the instructor >>

Anti-Cheating Initiative with WebAssign - The Cengage Blog Online learning made it challending to address cheating. Cengage devised an anti-cheating plan through the WebAssign platform.

Say hello to Professor Donna McAuliffe, lead author on our title The Road to Social Work and Human Service Practice. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
My top tip is for instructors to remember that everything in this book is real. All the contributors, all the case studies, all the important points that are made throughout - all come from our own experiences and are based in real life. Nothing is made up or fictitious.

What inspires you about your field?
Social workers and human service workers are prepared to get in and get the job done. We work with people who many others won't work with, go into spaces that are not pretty, and hold hope when it seems there is none to be found. We focus on the small changes that can make big impacts. We know how to see hidden agendas and power plays for what they are. We are both visible and invisible.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
One of the lived experiences stories in the book is my story, and one of the diagrams is my life. See if you can find it.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
I think watching social work taking on new challenges has been exciting, moving into new areas - disaster work, palliative care and voluntary assisted dying, aged care, school social work, refugee and asylum seeker work, and working out how to better ally with First Nations peoples, LGBTIQA+, and promote the valuing of lived experience. It's a constantly changing field and we are ready and willing.

When not working you are most likely to be …
When I am not working I am most likely to be sitting somewhere overlooking the ocean. Watching the power of big waves rejuvenates me. If not that I will be with my dogs, cats, and parrots, or watching a good movie all on my own.

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Addressing Readiness Gaps in Precalculus With WebAssign [GUIDE] - The Cengage Blog Discover the interactive learning modules in WebAssign to help you bridge readiness gaps in your precalculus students’ knowledge.

Say hello to Peter Wenning, author on our Plumbing title Sanitary & Drainage. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
Use the end-of-unit exercises to actively engage learners in class discussion.

What inspires you about your field?
In the field of Plumbing, there are always new things to learn.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
After studying physics and chemistry at high school, I started a Plumbing apprenticeship and found out that it was real!

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
Push-fit and crimp pipe jointing has taken the danger out of using oxy-acetylene.

When not working you are most likely to be …
Researching and visiting underrated travel destinations or doing a warm-water workout.

*Image: Peter visiting the bust of Joseph Bazalgette, Chief Engineer of London’s Metropolitan Board of Works and creator of a sewerage system for central London which was instrumental in relieving the city of cholera epidemics.

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Say hello to Steve D’Alessandro, author on our title Marketing Research. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
Make sure you use the all the additional materials we supply you with. We have datasets, case studies, videos and great artwork for use in lectures. The Test Bank is also quite detailed and can be easily formatted for online quizzes. The instructors manual is also great, if you haven't taught market research in a while. Finally we have project worksheets which cover all types of market research.

What inspires you about your field?
The impact marketing can have for the good of society as well as its importance to growing a business. Marketing is a really dynamic field, which is interdisciplinary and increasingly technological. You are never bored as a marketing scholar.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
Probably when I had my first lecture with Professor Geoff Soutar at UWA nearly 30 years ago. It seemed that marketing was a democratic function in business that would help it make better decisions which benefited consumers.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
I would say big data and the online access to it. This has made AI possible and has created a whole new set of industries from social listening to analytics, to AI integration now. Market research, though, is still vital, as you need to provide insights and advice to clients, and this must be communicated clearly and succinctly. I think we will see a growing importance of critical thinking and communication in our field.

When not working you are most likely to be …
Cooking and having friends over for dinner. Michelle and I like to entertain. We are lucky to have a daughter Sophie, Stanton from my previous marriage who all get on. Boof! our rescue dog is a great addition to our family. I would advise anyone in academia to get a dog. That way you will always have a friend.

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Say hello to Michael Arthur-Kelly, author on our Education titles Inclusion in Action, and Positive Learning Environments. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
Use the range of teaching supports embedded in each chapter to bring the text to life. The more real the engagement the more connected students will be to the concepts and strategies presented.

What inspires you about your field?
The progress we have made in my lifetime and the energy going forward.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
May sound clichéd but I grew up in a close community with various peers who had a disability and so when doors opened in this field it felt natural to me.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
Without doubt the open conversations and inclusive tone we are seeing in our community and schools. We have much to do but great progress has been made. Teachers have a key role.

When not working you are most likely to be …
Trying to get better at playing guitar, having taken it up after retiring from university ...

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Say hello to Amanda Telford, author on our Education title Teaching Quality Health & Physical Education. Tap and swipe the image or keep reading below 👇 to learn a bit about one of the many amazing Cengage ANZ authors.

What is your top tip for instructors teaching with your book?
Look for everyday opportunities to link concepts, content and activities to the real world and your local school and community context, this is where the magic happens and brings real meaning to the learning. I have loved seeing some wonderful examples of teachers using our textbooks as the background to some incredible authentic assessments. When I was a secondary teacher my students loved going out into their local community even if it was the local park, there are so many opportunities within the Fit for Life Series and the VCE Physical Education texts.

What inspires you about your field?
Teachers educate the everything of the future, not just the doctors and the lawyers, but everyone is shaped by their educational experience in some way. I think the teaching profession are so inspiring, passionate and generous with their time and energy to encourage the next generation of societies' leaders, policy makers, workers, educators, builders etc. I have written over 40 books with Cengage and being able to support teachers of health and physical education around Australia has been an incredibly rewarding experience. I have loved translating the findings of evidence-based physical activity research into a creative, and meaningful way to align with curriculum at a state and national level.

What was the moment when you knew this field was for you?
As a child I always loved being outdoors, playing in nature, playing with my pets, playing sport, competing and being active and creative. I wanted a role where I could foster this love of movement among others and one in which I could inspire my students to care about helping others become the best they could be in what mattered to them. I guess helping others find their 'why' and enabling them to 'fly' has always energised me as a person, educator, leader and parent.

What has been the most exciting development in your field?
Throughout my academic career I have used wearable technologies to explore the physical activity and sedentary behaviour of young people whether that be relating to research to help inform the development of national activity guidelines or helping pre-and in-service teachers and school students understand the benefits of using these technologies. It has been phenomenal to see the rate at which this wearable technology has become a mainstream part of our lives with accelerometry, pedometers, energy expenditure, heart rate monitoring and GPS in our watches, phones and other wearables and integrated with our social media, devices, cars or even our refrigerators.

When not working you are most likely to be …
Playing with my kids, pets, doing something active, creative or relaxing. As a University Professor, Director and author my roles are pretty full-on so when I can spend time with my family and friends I try to be mindful and present. Life can be so crazy and busy so taking the time to enjoy the little things in life and connecting with the people I care about is what matters most to me.