Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

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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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

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. And they do.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

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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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. That happened in 2017.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

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. That gives the instructor more visibility into what groups are working on than might be possible for you to observe in a face-to-face class.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Hoffman’s interest in exposing faculty at Seattle Pacific University to free and open learning materials is largely due to expensive textbook prices and the interest she hears from students for cheaper alternatives. The critical part, Hoffman says, is “really trying to clarify what it is that you are sharing back.”

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In learner-centered pedagogical practices, the focus and attention is on learning what and how the student is learning (Weimer, 2013). Instead the spaces are collaborative environments where instructors must use multiple pedagogical techniques to facilitate learning (Boss & Linder, 2016). Hannafin, M., Spector, D.

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