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Put the power of EDU behind your best-selling books...
and in front of your largest adoptions.

What is EDU?
EDU is web-based system that eases the development, publishing, and delivery of self-scoring, highly-configurable, low- and high-stakes assignments. Simply put, EDU provides a winning strategy for you, your professors and their students by putting more value in your end-of-chapter problem sets, enhancing academic productivity and giving students more reasons to buy your text.

EDU as your Product
EDU can be private labeled by changing its “skin” and be used in conjunction with the sale of your student guide or as a stand alone guide. We integrate with your authentication and ecommerce systems.

EDU as a Publishing System
Brownstone understands publishing and the pathways needed to keep content portable and interoperable. Publishers shouldn’t have the hassle of conversion every time they need to move content from platform to platform. Our tools keep your content and metadata intact and fluid.

Why select EDU?
EDU is a professional product that provides great advantages with its broader array of question types, assignment modes and publishing tools. Add to that Brownstone’s editorial services and you have the expertise to combine the talents of your editorial staff with the most versatile online system on the market.

Question Types – Standard, SMET & Applet Interaction
Why artificially constrain assessment to multiple choice and other standard question formats when you don’t have to? EDU provides the standard question types as well as a variety of types supporting science, math, & engineering. And evey question type can be algorithmically generated.

Standard
Multiple Choice - 1 answer
Permuting Multiple Choice
Multiple Selection
Short Answer / Essay
Fill-in-the-blank / Drop-down
Short Phrase
Clickable Image
Matching
True-False

Applet Interaction Questions
Spreadsheet
Sliding layers
Random graphic labels
Plotting w/ equation rendering

Scientific and Mathematical
WYSIWYG Mathematical Formula Expressions Input
Numeric with: Physical Units, Margin of Error
Evaluation of equivalent physical units (3kg = 3000g)
Evaluation of equivalent mathematical formulae and symbols
Randomly-generated formulas in problem statements
Allows for constant of integration
Multi Formula: unordered list of formulas
Ntuple: vectors or coordinates of points of the form (1,3)
Formula List: vectors or coordinates of points of the form (2t+1, 3t-4)
Dimensioned Formula: Formulas with physical units - (1/2)mv^2 J
Linear Algebra Matrices
Multi-Part/Partial Credit

Assignment Types – another advantage
EDU has five assignment modes to deal with every assessment or assignment issue:
Anonymous – no student logon required
Homework – logon required & performance recorded
Proctored – two levels of security available for high-stakes exams
Mastery – highly versitile mastery policy editor for sophisticated descrimination of
  performance & mastery learning
Study – a very popular flash card mode; no logon required

Each of these assignment types has additional features to further customize the learning experience.


 
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