Educators from more than a dozen colleges and universities visited the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) for its first Teaching with Technology Day to explore effective ways technology can be used in higher education. Public and private higher education institutions attended the event, and MJ Bishop, Director of the USM Kirwan Center, provided the keynote address.
Clifford M. Kendall, former long-time Chair of the ÏÂÔض¶Òõ (USM) Board of Regents and Advisory Board member for the Kirwan Center, passed away on March 28, 2018.
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Kendall’s impact on higher education in Maryland is well known. He dedicated countless hours of service to both the USM Board of Regents and the USM Foundation, and his incredible generosity to his alma mater, the University of Maryland, College Park, and to the Universities at Shady Grove has impacted the lives of countless students.
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The M.O.S.T. initiative announced the award of 29 mini-grants to faculty at 18 MD public higher education institutions to support the adoption, adaptation and scaling of open educational resources (OER), with the potential to save approximately 6,500 students over $1.2 million in Fall 2018 alone.
The Kirwan Center is seeking institutional partners from across Maryland to participate in a Kresge Foundation funded project starting in Spring 2018 that will pilot the efficacy and feasibility of replacing the high-stakes mathematics placement exam process currently in use with a process that empowers students to assess and remediate their mathematics knowledge using adaptive learning tools instead.
USM and edX to Launch MicroMasters Programs, Which May Accelerate Path to Advanced Degrees. Non-Degree Programs in Bioinformatics, Cloud Computing, Instructional Design and Technology, and Software Testing and Verification, will be offered by national online education leader UMUC.
The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is seeking proposals for a new High-impact OER Mini-Grant program to strategically support Maryland public institutions’ efforts to adopt/adapt Open Educational Resources (OERs) or scale OER adoption.
New Designs for Learning: Games and GamificationÌýgathered instructional designers, faculty, and academic leaders from across the ÏÂÔض¶Òõ to explore how games and gamification can reinvigorate courses, boost student engagement, and enhance student learning. The Symposium featured Dr. Karl Kapp as the keynote speaker, and wasÌýcosponsored byÌýUMUC’s Center for Innovation in Learning and Student SuccessÌýand USM’s Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation.Ìý
The ÏÂÔض¶Òõ (USM) has entered into a groundbreaking partnership with , the nonprofit online learning destination founded by Harvard and MIT in 2012 to increase global access to high-quality education. The agreement is designed to further increase student success, as well as the access, affordability, and quality of higher education in Maryland and around the world.
Far too many students in the United States start their postsecondary education without being able to demonstrate the skills and knowledge deemed necessary to succeed in college-level math. Colleges and universities have traditionally dealt with this problem by placing students in full-semester developmental courses for which they must pay full tuition but do not receive college credit. It has become clear, however, that this approach has serious drawbacks, as students who start out in remediation are far less likely to attain a degree.
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