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At OpenEd16, the13th Annual Open Education Conference, OLI Director Norman Bier will present “The Open Learning Initiative at 15: Successes, Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead for OLI.” This seminar will begin with a retrospective overview of the fifteen years of OLI’s history, with a high-level look at OLI’s approach, results, and key successes. The
Educators from nine Pittsburgh universities came together this summer with one shared goal: to improve education. Carnegie Mellon University’s Simon Initiative collaborated with the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education (PCHE) to hold the first-of-its-kind PCHE Simon Summer School to support educators in incorporating Simon technologies and approach into their instruction at their home institutions.
Free — or very inexpensive — online courses have become quite a trend in education. Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) providers currently offer thousands of courses and have enticed millions of students to enroll. The emphasis in MOOCs is often on lecture videos that students watch and learn from. However, a study published in the Proceedings
The work of a partnership between The University of California Davis and OLI was recently highlighted by New York Times reporter Richard Prichard Pérez-Peña: Colleges Reinvent Classes to Keep More Students in Science. Inside Higher Ed blogger Joshua Kim argues that this is 'The Most Important Higher Ed Story of 2015': Larger enrollment courses are being re-thought
At this year's Open Education Conference, held in Washington, DC. on November 19-21, OLI Director Norman Bier will speak at three sessions: Community Input on the Simon DataLab Skills Mapping and Analytics Open Learning Analytics Keynote addresses and concurrent sessions at OpenEd14 will address the following themes: exploiting the synergies between open education and parallel work
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