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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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In the month of January we'll be offering a couple of 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 you can use to effectively utilize the information about student performance that OLI gives you to 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. In February we'll have a follow-on webinar focusing more on classroom techniques.
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OLI at Open Education 2011 |
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The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) was proud to participate in this year's annual Open Education conference in Park City, UT. From the conference website:
The Open Education Conference has been described as the annual reunion of the open education family. Each year the conference serves as the world's premiere venue for research and development related to open education, while simultaneously creating the most friendly and energetic atmosphere you'll find at any academic conference.
Among the many great keynotes and talks, OLI presented on three different topics. Below, find the videos of those talks along with slides.
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The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is currently preparing for spring 2012! We will introduce a number of updates and new features to our courses. One of our most requested features, search capability for students and instructors, will make its debut. Many improvements are also in place for the look and feel of our courses and we have a lot of work underway to enhance our site in the early months of 2012.
In addition to these platform changes, we’ll update many of our existing courses as part of our iterative improvement cycle. Courses including Biochemistry, Engineering Statics, Statistics, Logic and Proofs, Secure Coding, Speech and Causal and Statistical Reasoning will be updated based on quantitative data analysis and feedback from faculty and students. We’ll also start new pilots for Anatomy and Physiology, Biology, and Introduction to Psychology as part of the CC-OLI project. Use and Evaluation students for CC-OLI Statistics will also continue in the spring semester.
We’re also preparing new mechanisms for supporting our faculty. In the spring semester we will offer a regular schedule of webinars that will help new OLI faculty learn about our system, support existing faculty as they continue to use our platform and allow all faculty to explore new pedagogical techniques that the OLI approach enables.
About OLI
OLI is an open educational resources project that began in 2002. We use knowledge from learning science and the affordances of the web to transform instruction, significantly improve learning outcomes and to achieve significant increases in productivity in post secondary education.
Our Goals
- Produce exemplars of scientifically based online courses and course materials that enact instruction and support instructors. Our courses are designed based on learning science research and contribute to that research.
- Provide open access to our courses and materials. Like many open educational resources projects, ours makes its courses openly and freely available. However, our courses are not collections of material created by individual faculty to support traditional instruction. While our courses are often used by instructors to support classroom instruction, OLI online courses are designed to support an individual learner, who does not have the benefit of an instructor.
- Develop a community of use, research, and development that contributes to the evaluation, continuous improvement, and ongoing growth of the courses and materials.
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Introducing Media Programming |
OLI is proud to offer our newest open and free course, Media Programming.
The Media Programming class teaches introductory programming concepts using the Java language. It contextualizes the task of programming by focusing on media, such as images, audio, and interactive systems. By doing so, we hope to put programming in a relevant context. For example, iteration is a programming concept that is essential to creating negative and greyscale images. You will learn algorithms for blending two images together and how hierarchical relationships are used to organize elements of a user interface. Learning more about programming will help you develop the skills of systematically thinking about a task and breaking it down into manageable pieces.
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