Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year, the list of colleges with “open learning initiatives” of various kinds has boomed, and much of that has been part of an essential drive to modernize their classrooms and push the cost of education down. That happened in 2017. For example, both the City and State University of New York systems are investing millions in OER.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2016

We know that personalized and adaptive approaches can be effective,” says Norman Bier, director of Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative (OLI), which develops adaptive courses that use open educational resources and provide student feedback. But there was no change in their odds of successfully completing a course.

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Toward learning-centered education in colleges and universities. Essential learning outcomes and pedagogy (New Directions for Teaching & Learning, No. Student-centered, open learning environments: Research, theory, and practice. Meyers, & D. Holttzman (Eds.), Carpenter, R., & Tichenor, D.

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