Integrate OLI into Your Practice
The Open Learning Initiative offers instructors a variety of resources designed to support teaching practice.
- Course materials based on current research in the learning sciences
- Flexibility in the use of these materials
- Timely and targeted feedback to you and your students
- Opportunity to improve existing materials by joining course evaluation studies
OLI Materials and Tools
- Providing you with pre-existing course packages that undergo rigurous testing and continuous improvements by a growing open learning community.
- Giving you the opportunity to select and sequence the content and activities from the package to build a customized package that fits your class needs.
- Automatically grading many activities so more of your time can be spent on teaching rather than paperwork.
- Providing both you and your students with timely and targeted feedback
- Numerous activities and self-comprehension checks will give your students immediate focused feedback as they work.
- Instructor Feedback reports, assessments, lab playbacks, and other tools will provide you with timely feedback on student progress and participation
As you and your students prepare for class, they have a better understanding of their competancy and you can better anticipate their needs. This allows you to better focus your class time.
Opportunities to Join Evaluation Studies
OLI course designs are based on current research in the learning sciences. We continuously update and improve our courses through formal evaluation studies and through feedback from instructors and students. We are interested in working with teachers who would like to be part of our ongoing evaluation and research or who would like to extend or adapt the OLI courses to better support their teaching.
If you will be teaching statistics and are interested in participating in the Statistics Course Evaluation & Adaptation Project for Two-Year College Faculty please apply here.
If you are interested in participating in other research and development projects, please direct you inquiry to 
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Want to Learn More?
- Instructor Resources - Explore a variety of resources designed to help your experience with OLI be a success from the start
- Evaluation Studies - Read our published studies, articles and papers