Interviews with Peer Instructors
Here are interviews with some of the peer instructors.  Students can access interviews with their peer instructors in the Chapter Introductions in their eBooks.
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Success Skills and Study Skills
We have a number of these skills built into our textbooks and videos. We want to give students tools that they can use in their math classes, and all their classes.  We also want to touch on the habits that will give them the best chance for success in all their endeavors.
Do something for the person you will be in five years
My students like this advice.  So do I.  It has worked for me for many years.
Don't Complain
This is one of my favorite study skills.  I have done this in class for years, and so I decided to do a video about it.  It is one of the most popular study skills videos on my YouTube site.  I think you will like it.
Be Patient
I prefer my students wait before they ask questions, until they have tried a problem at least twice.  At the same time, I tell them to never spend more than 15 minutes on a problem.  (This does not apply to my calculus classes.
Student Videos
Every example in every one of our textbooks is worked on video by a number of people. Most of these videos are done by students.  The students that create videos for us are all paid.  They all enjoy their jobs.  We call them peer instructors, because they are college students, not actual mathematics instructors.  Many of them are working their way toward careers teaching mathematics.  They are also role models for the students that use our textbooks.  They see peer instructors that they identify with and say to themselves "If that person can do mathematics, then so can I."

One advantage of multiple videos, is showing different approaches to the same problem.  In the three videos below, each peer instructor works the same problem, but each of them takes a little different approach.  The problem is taken from intermediate algebra and shows how to solve a system of equations by eliminating one of the variables.  (Notice also that the last video is in Spanish.)
 
How our Videos look in our eBooks
Students choose the person they want to work the problem for them.  We believe mathematics is a human endeavor, and that is why we always show the person working the problem, rather than just a screen capture. Click on image below to see how this works.