Join us for a web seminar on Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative. This initiative offers “open courses backed by learning research.”
The course materials are freely available online and can be customized and incorporated by instructors anywhere.
Each course includes frequent opportunities for students to assess their own learning and receive immediate feedback, including context-specific assistance during the problem solving.
Courses are currently available in: Engineering Statics, Statistics, Causal and Statistical Reasoning, Modern Biology, Chemistry, Economics, French, Logic & Proofs, Physics, Empirical Research Methods, Computational Discrete Mathematics and Visual Communication Design.
To learn more, browse the courses on the Open Learning Initiative website. Intrigued? Join us at a web seminar on Monday, January 11th.
Speaker: Candace Thille
Director of the Open Learning Initiative (OLI)
Carnegie Mellon University
Topic: Continuous Improvement in Teaching and Learning: Open Learning Initiative (OLI) and Open Learning Net (OLnet)
Date: Monday, January 11, 2010
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Place: Perkins Library – please register for room information, and join CIT to view and discuss this seminar.