eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Department of Education has its #GoOpen District Launch Packet , and Open Learning has a free online course (about 15 hours) on how to develop OER content. You can take the course online or download it to study offline. In total, Open Learning has more than 800 professional development courses to support teacher development.

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Textbooks Open Learning Study Accessibility 173

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2019

In an unusual move intended to shake up how college teaching is done around the world, Carnegie Mellon University today announced that it will give away dozens of the digital-learning software tools it has built over more than a decade—and make their underlying code available for anyone to see and modify.

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Learning Open Learning History Culture 167

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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Exams Fairness Instructors Evaluation 162

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Bryan Alexander For my course on Studies in Educational Technology, I wanted to bring all of that in as objects of study—as well as discuss practical decisions for our collective learning experience. I wanted students to study edtech while using it, so every week will feature some hands-on work.

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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. It’s a course on “eternal families,” and it is taught as both a religion course and a family-studies course.

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Textbooks Study Instructors Motivation 117

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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Lecturing Critical Thinking Quizzes Learning Outcomes 108

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2019

Gibori also sells the concept as a sort of youth hangout lounge with Wi-Fi, where kids don’t even have to study. The House has a similar modern feel but is designed to mimic a luxury home to make kids feel more comfortable. Besides the snacks, there are weekend movie nights and parties after big events like final exams.

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