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Over the next few months we'll offer two different webinars to help you make the most of OLI in your class, and each will be offered several times. We hope you can join us for one or both of them; each will last one hour.
"Introduction" focuses on basic OLI use; how to set up your class, administer checkpoints, and use the gradebook. We'll focus on the technical side of getting started, with a primary focus on first-time OLI users. Feel free to bring any questions you have.
"Effective Use" will focus on specific techniques for effectively utilizing the information about student performance that OLI gives you. The information can help you tailor your classroom activities to meet your students' needs. In this webinar we'll focus mostly on how to use and understand the Learning Dashboard, and we'll touch briefly on different kinds of active learning exercises that you can use to address your students' needs. We'll also invite you to share your experiences with each other, or to ask questions.
To join a webinar, go to http://cmusv.adobeconnect.com/webinars/ at one of the times listed below, and enter as a guest.
Introduction:
- Thursday May 24, 1:00 ET/10:00PT
- Friday May 25, 12 noon ET/9:00 PT
- Wednesday June 20, 2:00 ET/11:00 PT
- Tuesday July 17, 4:00 ET/1:00PT
Effective Use:
- Tuesday May 29, 4:00 ET/1:00 PT
- Thursday June 21, 4:00 ET/1:00 PT
- Wednesday July 18, 1:00 ET/10:00PT
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Changing the Production Function in Higher Education |
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OLI Director Candace Thille recently wrote for the American Council on Education about productivity in higher education in the United States:
Improving productivity in higher education is essential to strengthening the nation and positioning it to remain competitive in a global marketplace. Without sufficiently increasing student access, enrollment, and attainment in our higher education institutions, the United States risks being surpassed by other nations, becoming less competitive, and failing to tap the full potential of its citizenry. Changing the Production Function in Higher Education is a valuable tool for U.S. college and university leaders to effect and lead a new era of progress and innovation on their campuses.
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OLI Director Highlighted as Innovator |
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The Open Learning Initiative's director, Candace Thille, was recently profiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education for their series 12 Tech Innovators Who Are Transforming Campuses:
Treating Higher Ed's 'Cost Disease' With Supersize Online Courses
Oh my God, she's trying to replace me with a computer.
That's what some professors think when they hear Candace Thille pitch the online education experiment she directs, the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University...
Read the full profile
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OLI Featured at Carnegie Mellon Event in DC |
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Carnegie Mellon University recently hosted an event on March 1, in Washington D.C. on the topic of OLI. There, CMU President Jared L. Cohon discussed OLI and CMU's leadership in the science of learning. In addition to OLI Director Candace Thille, he was joined by Ken Koedinger, CMU professor of Human-Computer Interaction; Martha Kanter, under secretary, U.S. Department of Education; and William E. Kirwan, chancellor of the University System of Maryland.
Prior to the event in DC, Cohon was one of ten university presidents invited to the White House to meet with President Obama to discuss OLI, and how it can help reduce costs and improve productivity of U.S. higher education.
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Undergraduate STEM Education Report Release Event |
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On Tuesday, February 7 at 3 pm ET (tentative), the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) expects to release its report entitled “Engage to Excel: Producing One Million Additional College Graduates with Degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.” OLI director Candace Thille served on the working group to produce the report.
This report provides a strategy for improving STEM education during the first two years of college that we believe is responsive to both the challenges and the opportunities that this crucial stage in the STEM education pathway presents.
The report will be released at a public briefing that will take place in the auditorium of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at 1200 New York Avenue, NW, Washington DC (closest metro stop: Metro Center).
The timing of this event is subject to change. To attend the event in person, we ask that you register here, and we’ll email registrants with the final details. The event may be video webcast as well. |
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