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April 2019

CMU working to close the “opportunity gap” for students

2019-05-16T10:47:05-04:00April 12th, 2019|All posts, CMU news, Research focus|

CMU working to close the "opportunity gap" for students A pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, thinking, culturally affirming teaching and human-computer interaction to galvanize a community of teachers, mentors and parents around improving

March 2019

OLI and CMU METALS program are at SXSW EDU 2019!

2019-03-04T16:40:34-05:00March 4th, 2019|All posts, Events|

OLI and CMU's METALS program (Masters in Educational Technologies and Applied Learning Science) are in booth 639 at SXSW EDU 2019 this week. Come by and see us, and we can talk about OLI's open courses, authoring your own module or course, discussing the METALS program, or even hiring some of our outgoing students!

February 2019

OLI’s latest authoring features: citations, surveys, hotspots and more

2019-03-04T16:47:28-05:00February 27th, 2019|All posts, New tools and features|

OLI's authoring tool, Echo, received several new features in February. Survey / My Response Hotspot activities Citations / bibliography "My Response" assessments have always been a traditional option for adding metacognitive, reflective questions in an OLI course. Echo now

Training on OLI and other learning technologies

2019-02-18T15:54:58-05:00February 13th, 2019|All posts, Events, Research focus|

2019 Applications Now Open Simon Initiative LearnLab Summer School The LearnLab Summer School is an intensive one-week course focused on creating technology-enhanced learning (TEL) experiments and building intelligent tutoring systems. The Summer School will provide you with a conceptual background and considerable hands-on experience in designing, setting up, and running technology-enhanced learning

November 2018

With OLI’s new website comes a new student workflow

2019-02-18T16:39:26-05:00November 9th, 2018|All posts, New tools and features, Video|

Living our mantra of "iterative improvement" Many of you have been part of the Open Learning Initiative family for a decade or more. In our shared goal of bringing better outcomes to students, we've worked together for years to continuously improve the content, the tools, the pedagogy, and the relationships. Today we've made

OLI Website:
New look and
New student registration process

OLI’s website has undergone a refresh, and so has the student registration process. Watch the video to see how easily students can register with a Course Key.

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