Transforming higher education through the science of learning These courses incorporate practice and assessment throughout and represent current best practices.
The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University strives to transform teaching and learning by applying learning science and emerging technologies to increase student success, improve learning productivity and lower barriers to access. We believe the role of instructors is becoming more important than ever at the same time they are being asked to do more with less, and that communi
11/02/2022
See OLI's latest authoring and delivery platform, Torus! You're invited to join us for a demo on Friday, November 4.
Help design OLI's next-generation course platform: November 4 Help design OLI's next-generation course platform: November 4 - Description
03/18/2020
CMU Offers Free Resources To Support Remote Teaching - News - Carnegie Mellon University The courseware combines an interactive textbook with learning activities, assessments, and rich simulations for teachers and students.
04/12/2019
Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students
Two Research Projects To Close 'Opportunity Gap' for Students | Human-Computer Interaction Institute A pair of separate, but complementary, research projects led by Carnegie Mellon University will use cutting-edge research in motivation, thinking, culturally affirming teaching and human-computer interaction to galvanize a community of teachers, mentors and parents around improving math achievement....
03/04/2019
OLI and METALS are making friends at SXSWEDU. Find us in booth 639 to tell us about your educational interests!
OLI and CMU METALS program are at SXSW EDU 2019! OLI and CMU's METALS program (Masters in Educational Technologies and Applied Learning Science) are in booth 639 at SXSW EDU 2019 this week. Come by and see us, and we can talk about OLI's open courses, authoring your own module or course, discussing the METALS program, or even hiring some of our ou...
01/15/2019
New Features in the OLI Platform: Delivery Options and Authoring Tools
https://oli.cmu.edu/new-features-in-oli-platform-delivery-options-and-authoring-tools/
11/15/2018
With the new OLI website comes a new student registration process! - https://mailchi.mp/9b2518cc1515/new-oli-website-new-student-registration-process
Thank you to the members and friends of the OLI community for reaching out with concerns, thoughts and prayers in response to today’s tragedy. OLI joins our university and our city in grief for the victims and families, in gratitude for the bravery of our city’s first responders, and in an unwavering commitment to building a more just and equitable world.
UC Davis - OLI work highlighted: 'The Most Important Higher Ed Story of 2015': Larger enrollment cou... http://oli.cmu.edu/?p=3667
The Most Important Higher Ed Story of 2015 | Open Learning Initiative The work of a partnership between The University of California Davis and OLI was recently highlighted by New York Times reporter Richard Prichard Pérez-Peña: Colleges Reinvent Classes to Keep More Students in Science. Inside Higher Ed blogger Joshua Kim argues that this is ‘The Most Important Higher…
Bill Jerome's follow-up article on Learning Engineering is online: http://mfeldstein.com/learning-engineers/
The Need For Learning Engineers (and Learning Engineering) - Editor’s Note: I am pleased to announce that Bill has agreed to continue contributing blog posts from time to time. Therefore, he is now officially a “Featured Blogger” rather than a “Guest Blogger.”
OLI Associate Director Bill Jerome wrote a post for e-Literate discussing the limits of the comparisons between learning analytics and recommendation systems. See it here: http://mfeldstein.com/if-you-like-learning-could-i-recommend-analytics/
If you like learning, could I recommend analytics? - There’s something that drives me a little crazy when I hear about how someone has learned from Netflix, Amazon, Google, etc., and that they’re going to be the Netflix, Amazon, or Google of education. Actually there are a few things.
OLI Associate Director John Rinderle to discuss OLI and learning analytics at : Critical Issues in Online Education http://www.learningmode.org/. The conference is March 15-16.
01/14/2013
Candace Thille on MOOCs at CES last week: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/14/assessing-moocs-higheredtech-conference
Assessing MOOCs at HigherEdTech conference | Inside Higher Ed LAS VEGAS -- You probably won't be surprised to learn that amid all the high-profile speakers (such as the former Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers and ex-New York City schools chief Joel Klein) and the many topics discussed (the rise of "big data," the transformation of the textbook ...