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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. 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.

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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.

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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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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. We first need to identify a good activity to have students do in breakout sessions. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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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. Interest from students and faculty at BYU is growing, according to a 2017 study published in Open Praxis.

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Dean-Scott , Texas State University Key Statement: Cogenerative (cogen) dialogues are one learner-centered approach to engaging students in agency for their own learning and development in a course. My students seemed to either not understand my question or have difficulty with the content. Image courtesy of Wix.

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