Flipped classrooms may help weaker STEM Students
US News & World Report examines the topic of flipped classrooms in STEM courses.
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University of Zurich says professor deleted MOOC to raise student engagement
A Coursera-based MOOC from the University of Zurich was one week into its planned three-week run when the videos and other course materials disappeared.
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Can MOOCs help professors teach traditional courses more efficiently?
According to a new report, using free online materials such as MOOCS in traditional classes "can help colleges teach more efficiently without harming students."
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Five things researchers have discovered about MOOCs
The MOOC Research Initiative recently posted preliminary findings from their funded projects.
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MOOCs and technology to advance teaching and learning research
Ubiquity, an Association for Computing Machinery peer-reviewed magazine on the future of computing, is currently publishing a series of articles that form a symposium on MOOCs.
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Onlea, Canada’s first MOOC and digital learning production company, launches in Edmonton, Alberta
Onlea is a not-for-profit spin-off from the University of Alberta that produces "flexible, mobile-friendly, interactive learning courses, educational experiences, and assessment solutions that can be distributed across the wide variety of Massive Open Online Course platforms, open source learning platforms, and Learning Management Systems used by academia and industry."
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Google will finance Carnegie Mellon’s MOOC research
Google recently announced that it would give Carnegie Mellon $300,000 in each of the next two years to focus on “data driven” approaches to research on MOOCS, including “techniques for automatically analyzing and providing feedback on student work.”
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Faculty fellow call for BC Open Textbook program
The BC Open Textbook Program has issued a call for applications for its faculty fellows program. The program is designed to encourage the adoption of existing open textbooks, to create advocacy and education for faculty about adaptation and creation, and to ensure the quality and relevance of the collection.
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Extension of a review of flipped learning
In conjunction with George Mason University and Pearson, the Flipped Learning Networks recently published an update to their 2013 comprehensive literature review on flipped learning.
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How do you plan the campus of the future? Try not to
The Chronicle of Higher Education profiles the campus design plans of Cornell Tech, a new collaboration in New York City between Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
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