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

The success of OLI's work with UC Davis in supporting biology students was highlighted by Director Daniel Greenstein on the Gates Foundation's Impatient Optimists blog: For many of today’s college students, courses can feel too large, too slow, or too fast—like they’re designed for somebody else. Where they are conducted through large lecture classes, they can

OLI Director Norman Bier will lead a pre-conference workshop at the AAC&U 2014 Transforming STEM Higher Education: With technology breaking traditional barriers to research and knowledge formation, what are the implications for STEM teaching and learning in particular?  How can digital and blended learning be designed in ways that enhance the quality of learning and

OLI Director Norman Bier will be attending the Jack Miller Center's annual National Summit on Higher Education in Chicago, October 30 - November 1, 2014. Mr. Bier will provide remarks over lunch discussing the potential for learning science, technology and data to improve student learning outcomes in higher education. The Jack Miller Center describes the

OLI Director Norman Bier will be speaking at Simo Educatión 2014 on Friday October 17, 2014. The event is entitled "Open Education, The University of the Future?" and brings together experts from across the open education movement, including Larry Cooperman of the Open Education Consortium and Cecilia D'Oliveira, from MIT's OCW and MITx projects. Mr. Bier