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 some ways a key question for MOOCs, even after all these years, is: Can other subjects be delivered online as well as computer science? Ana Bell is one of those instructors.

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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. OER needs bells and whistles.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

You can pose a question for a future column here. 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. Do we want them to discuss their responses to three questions about what was just shared?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Each faculty member does that in their own way, but our question was, ‘What does that look like in terms of a textbook?’” Hoffman recently brought her question to the gathering of open education resource users and advocates at the OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY earlier this month.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. Thille: I am a big believer in using the data that we're abstracting from student work to benefit and support students in their learning, so we're highly alike about that. I'm excited that I got in, but I'm kind of questioning my fit here."

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Keywords: Teaching Methods, Pedagogy, Student Learning Introduction Staring out to the sea of questioning faces, I paused and asked the question again still no response from the 22 students staring back at me. My students seemed to either not understand my question or have difficulty with the content.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

EdSurge: You were doing adaptive learning before it was cool. Thille: The Open Learning Initiative, which is the project that I founded at Carnegie Mellon, started with a desire from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to get access to high-quality post-secondary education to those who would not otherwise have access.

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Teaching Ethics Textbooks Laboratory 93