“Advanced Studies” with MIT OpenCourseWare
Study group of medical students in Turkey uses free resources to pursue a PhD-level research agenda By Duyen Nguyen About two years ago, a group of medical students at Ege…
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James Glapa-Grossklag is Dean, Educational Technology, Learning Resources, and Distance Learning at College of the Canyons (California, USA). He supervises Distance Learning, Libraries, Tutoring, and OER. From 2016-19, he…
Continue readingThree Evolving Thoughts About Flipped Learning (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
In the latest post in his excellent series on teaching in a flipped classroom, Robert Talbert describes how recent experience has led to three important shifts in his thinking about pre-class and in-class work….
Continue readingFlipped Classroom May Help Weaker STEM Students (US News)
We’ve written about the flipped classroom on Open Matters before, and it’s exciting to see new data on the learning style. US News reports “the bottom third of students made…
Continue readingWhy Are Colleges Getting So Expensive? (The Atlantic)
OpenCourseWare and MOOCs exist in a landscape of increasingly expensive higher education. The Atlantic explains the economics at work that can help us understand why colleges cost so much: Different…
Continue readingThe Future of MIT Education Looks More Global, Modular, and Flexible (MIT News)
“The MIT education of the future is likely to be more global in its orientation and engagement, more modular and flexible in its offerings, and more open to experiments with…
Continue readingWhere Engineering and English Majors End Up Working (Pew Research)
The U.S. Census Bureau has just produced a fascinating visualization connecting college majors to occupations, based on data from the 2012 American Community Survey. As the Pew Research Center reports:…
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