Columnist David Wessel wrote for The Wall Street Journal about technology and its role in managing costs of higher education. Wessel featured the recent Ithaka study of the OLI statistics course. "The most important single result of our study: It calls into question the position of the skeptic who says, 'I don't want to try
Integrating user experience (UX) into software development is something technology organizations face all of the time. (More on how we do this at a later date). At OLI, we also integrate the practice into the development of our courses. Although we only began doing this in a methodical way in 2011, we have started to
OLI is featured in the new article "Online Learning and Liberal Arts Colleges" at Inside Higher Ed. Many of the OLI’s current projects involve working to successfully usher more students through community college in less time. But the successful deployment of the online modules at Bryn Mawr suggests that the technology may be good for
If you've attended a presentation or seen a talk given by an OLI team member, you have no doubt seen this quote: "Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community based research activity."Herb Simon We believe this is a powerful statement, which comes to us
Over the next few months we'll offer two different webinars to help you make the most of OLI in your class, and each will be offered several times. We hope you can join us for one or both of them; each will last one hour. Introduction Webinar "Introduction" focuses on basic OLI use; how to