Archive for the ‘Resources’ Category

Beyond Saving Money: Engaging Multiple Stakeholders is a Key to OER Success

This article addresses how the mere development of open educational resources (OERs) and the financial savings are not enough to support OERs as means to academic success. The transition from for-pay textbooks does not end with the adaptation, adoption, or creation of open-access resources; it must also provide broad-ranging support provided for multiple campus stakeholders. […]

Online Student Success Triangle — Students, Mentors, & Parents

A healthy support system for online students involves interrelationships between students, mentors, and parents. In this article, we take a look at how students, mentors, and parents can all work together to help students thrive in the online environment. Michigan Virtual

Where Training Management Systems Fit in the Learning Tech Stack

The training resource management system, also known as a training management system, has quickly become a primary layer in the learning tech stack. Focused on the optimization of critical instructor-led training (ILT) activities for corporate L&D departments, training companies, and extended enterprise, training management software is a back-end solution that helps training organizations reduce operating […]

Tandem tool helps students work better in teams

Whether in high school or college, most of us have experienced the frustration of group work. There often is at least one student who doesn’t pull her weight, leaving the rest to pick up the slack. Then there is that person who takes over. He doesn’t allow anyone else to be heard. Sometimes it happens in […]

Just What Online Resources Are Elementary Mathematics Teachers Using?

The question of how elementary teachers choose tasks has been widely discussed in the field of education. However, these studies have not adequately addressed the increasing use of online resources by elementary mathematics teachers. The authors of this study surveyed 601 elementary mathematics teachers in the United States to examine the trends in the teacher […]

Top Hat raises $55M to expand digital courseware, OER

Top Hat, an ed tech company that specializes in creating open educational resources (OER), announced Tuesday that it raised $55 million in Series D funding. The fundraising round was led by existing investors Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital and includes debt and equity financing. The company said in a statement that the funding will help […]

New ASU accessibility service lets students get files in more formats

Students at Arizona State University can now download class documents as files formatted for screen readers, braille or MP3 audio, the school announced Thursday, a service university officials said will make digital course content more accessible for all students. Ally, the new tool from learning management system provider Canvas, not only scans content and converts […]

Coursera for Campus: A New Way to Help Universities Everywhere Deliver Job-Relevant Learning

Today, I’m thrilled to introduce Coursera for Campus, a new offering designed to help any university — even those outside of Coursera’s partner ecosystem — to use content on Coursera to deliver job-relevant, multi-disciplinary online learning to its learners. Coursera

K12 Instructional Materials Dashboard

Based on the request of multiple state leaders, SETDA developed the K12 Instructional Materials Dashboard of state reviewed, full course instructional materials for English/Language Arts and math at the secondary level. Resources can be sorted by state, content area, subject area, grade level, format, publisher and copyright date. Educators and publishers can discover reviewed, core […]

Exploring the relationship between college students’ writing anxiety and the pedagogical use of online resources

This study reports on how the use of online resources based on systemic functional linguistics (SFL) impacted college students’ emotional alignment with writing practices. Through qualitative analyses of in-class discussions, students’ interviews and reflections, as well as their written pieces gathered in a Chinese university, the case study shows that the students were able to […]