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Startup Hopes to Shake Up Textbook Market By Encouraging a Mix-and-Match of Courseware

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It’s solution: Create a new marketplace where instructors can find them. Namely, it wants to help build an open-source system that lets professors piece together online course materials from a variety of sources, and also offer their own materials for sale to colleagues around the world. A key premise of the Lexington, Mass.-based

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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching

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And those lists offer a telling snapshot of how MOOCs are evolving and what their impact is on the instructors and institutions offering them. In an interview, she jokes that she’s “not a top-tier university person,” but that she thinks many of the best instructors today are at institutions like hers.

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U. of Michigan Hints at Growth Plans for Office of Academic Innovation

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We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. We’ve developed this set of teams that creates exemplary online-learning environments and experiences. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment.

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OER Had Its Breakthrough in 2017. Next Year, It Will Become an Essential Teaching Tool

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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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How Do You Make Zoom Breakout Rooms Less Boring?

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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 also hope that this book will help you focus on what is important and provide a roadmap in your efforts to learn how to teach online.

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OER is Growing at Religious Colleges, But Raises Unique Challenges

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One popular draw to open educational resources is that these openly-licensed learning materials can—and are often encouraged to—be tailored for a particular professor or course. But at religious institutions, adapting open materials for a faith-based curriculum can be trickier.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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Algorithms will one day play a pivotal role in teaching and learning, so colleges need to pay close attention to how they work and who builds them. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom. EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool.

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