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OpenStax Seeks Applications for Institutional OER Partnerships
OpenStax -- Rice University's nonprofit initiative for affordable, openly licensed textbooks -- has opened applications for its second round of...
UC San Diego Adds Data Collection to EdX MOOC Platform
The University of California, San Diego, has added a real-time course activity feed to its Open EdX platform, allowing for...
Carnegie Mellon to Open Up Its Digital Learning Tools
Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative plans to make dozens of software tools it has developed to enable "learning engineering"...
Digital Learning in ‘Inside Higher Ed’ This Week
Among the topics: objections to online gym class; accreditor's report on unbundling; connecting community colleges' work-force programs.
Discussion Boards: Valuable? Overused? Discuss.
Instructors and students alike are growing tired of the discussion board formula. Innovative approaches point to the potential for more meaningful online learning experiences.
Q&A: How to Develop ‘Program Architecture’
Kacey Thorne, director of program architecture at Western Governors University, explains her role and lays out plans for developing underlying competencies that inform online programs.
The Pulse: Aula Education's Anders Krohn
This month's episode of our technology podcast features an interview with the co-founder of a new communication platform designed to replace the LMS.
Opinion
Building Online Courses Communally
The master model of course development devalues all but the lead instructor and reduces students to numbers, Penelope Adams Moon argues. We can do better by building online courses together.