Edsurge

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. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Acrobatiq , a company that spun out of Carnegie Mellon University’s much-watched Open Learning Initiative. The company’s introductory statistics courseware, which professors involved in the project made some customizations to, is in many ways an interactive textbook. The Maryland project is working with.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

These courses also take advantage of the online medium more fully than courses on other subjects, since many allow students to upload coding projects that are then automatically graded. Experiential textbooks? And part of her time is overseeing the MOOC version, which is the most popular course of all time on edX.

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JUNE 9, 2020

There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. For instance, an online biology textbook might include a short section about protein synthesis, followed by a question. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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