Open courses backed by learning research.
The U.S. Department of Education is currently engaged in the process of creating plans for the future of education in America. As part of this process, it is working with leaders in the field to develop a National Educational Technology Plan (NETP) "to provide a vision for how information and communication technologies can help transform American education."
Candace Thille, Director of The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon, is honored to be a part of the Technical Working Group developing the plan. The Technical Working Group is chaired by Jim Shelton (Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement) and Mike Smith (Senior Counselor to Secretary of Education).
Please visit http://edtechfuture.org/ to read about the plan being developed and give your input.
The Chronicle of Higher Education posted a follow-up to their article "Obama's Great Course Giveaway" titled "Obama Course-Giveaway Backlash?" From the article :
"The Obama administration has yet to release many details of its online course plan, one small piece of a sweeping community-college assistance package. But officials have repeatedly cited Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative as a potential model. The project builds software-enhanced online courses that track students' progress and provide them with feedback on problems. If the courses are used in combination with instructors, they can feed information to professors about where students are struggling."
Open courses backed by learning research are available for use by instructors, academic students and independent learners. Self learners can get free materials, activities and assessments for self-guided learning. Instructors can offer these courses to students. And academic students can use these interactive courses to earn credits at your school or university.
Open & Free Courses Include:
- Engineering Statics
- Statistics
- Causal and Statistical Reasoning
- Modern Biology
- Chemistry
- Economics
- French
- Logic & Proofs
- Physics
- Empirical Research Methods
- Computational Discrete Mathematics
- Visual Communication Design
Open Learning Initiative
http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/