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DECEMBER 28, 2017

Until recently, the use of OER—digital educational materials that are both more easily adaptable by instructors and more affordable than traditional textbooks—was being led by early-adopter professors driven by a desire to improve teaching and an interest in new technology. That happened in 2017. OER needs bells and whistles.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Co-founder Micheal Feldstein believes that creating a common, open-source platform to distribute courseware can help make the materials cheaper for students and help professors continually refine their teaching. When authors chose to sell content, Argos will take a cut of the revenue. going to be layering on a service.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Robin DeRosa, director of Plymouth State University’s Open Learning & Teaching Collaborative, posed the question and committed to sharing her findings via a presentation soon. I learned this the hard way!

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MAY 15, 2023

If you have a personal device assigned by the school but yours to take home, the steps may be more numerous but really, not more complicated. Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Here’s a list.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Just before professor Barry Spieler enters the classroom at Montgomery College to teach an introductory statistics course, he looks at a data dashboard and gets a sinking feeling. He sees that few of the students in the course have bothered to do the interactive exercises they were assigned for homework. The mission? At Your Own Pace’.

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MAY 8, 2019

It was an unusually theatrical moment for a gathering to announce the release of software tools to help professors improve their teaching. But the organizers were playfully acknowledging the size of their project’s ambition—which they hope will spark a more data-driven and experimental approach to teaching at colleges around the country.

Learning 164

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MAY 12, 2022

If you have a personal device assigned by the school but yours to take home, the steps may be more numerous but really, not more complicated. Learn to use programs or get rid of them. You know, that program you were excited to get and then never opened. Learn it or lose it. Here’s a list.

Schools 165

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