Revel
Revel
Research Methods for Business Students by Saunders
Pearson
Revel is an interactive learning environment, seamlessly blending world class content, interactive learning activities and assessments. It also allows educators to assign content week to week, track engagement and use a wealth of analytics to identify where more student support is needed.
Revel for Research Methods for Business Students 8th edition by Mark Saunders embeds interactives throughout the narrative. Media rich content brings the real world into the classroom to engage and encourage students to take a methodical approach to research projects.
Students engage with the content through:
- Open response questions with supportive, formative feedback - some are assigned by lecturers as group work
- Simulated processes explained through visual interactives
- Drag and drop images and tables to check understanding of concepts
- Multimedia including students' experiences of research issues
- Multiple choice quizzes to test each learning objective
- Supporting tools include: an embedded glossary, case studies, infographics, posters, flowcharts the end of each chapter has a summary, checklist and flashcards.
Heightening your Awareness of Research Philosophies
The concept of research philosophy is delivered through a HARP (Heightening Awareness of your Research Philosophy) survey.
This has been reimagined for Revel into a ‘Social Explorer’ interactive. Students are asked to complete a survey based on a Likert scale and receive personalised results and feedback given in a report and graph.
This enables students to reflect on their preferred research style and apply to their research project.
Research Onion
If you’re familiar with the text, you’ll be aware of ‘The Research Onion’, a concept devised by Mark Saunders which shows what underpins research and the key elements to include and consider.
Within Revel, this is broken down step by step into a visual simulation with the author delivering an audio recording to support the learning.
The media rich content throughout Revel brings real world examples into the classroom to engage and encourage students.
Revel is available online, iPad or via mobile and gives students bitesize pieces of content. Each chapter or module has an introduction, content segments, and a summary to support students.
Revel lets students check their understanding and get immediate feedback - one of the most effective means for building long-term retention and increasing student confidence.
It also allows instructors to gauge student comprehension by giving them access to student performance data.
MediaShare helps lecturers support students through their research projects.
The student is set their next research project task, with a video intro from the author, guidance documents, and a simple process for uploading their response to their lecturer for feedback.
"Using Revel to prepare for the seminar helped to create time to discuss the question in depth.
"I was pleasantly surprised by the extent I could sit back and let the group discuss the question among themselves. Normally they wouldn't have reached the stage of reading academic work before a seminar."
- Educator, Swansea University
"I found that the interactive nature of Revel was very useful in letting me put theory into practice."
- Student, Nottingham Trent University