FIU News: FIU joins national movement to reduce cost of books
Source: FIU News Written by Jennifer Lacayo On average, college students spend between $600 and $1,400 on textbooks each year, according to the College Board. These costs contribute to mounting...
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Open Educational Resources: What are they and how to get started
Recently, FIU announced a partnership with OpenStax, a provider of openly licensed textbooks. OpenStax will be providing FIU and 10 other institutions guidance and best practices for OER implementation...
View ArticleOER: More than just a cost saving measure
Open Educational Resources is a term that was first coined in 2002 at the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization forum. Fast-forward 15 years, and we are now witnessing a...
View ArticleLooking at the Future of Cognitive Technology in Education
Artificial intelligence (AI), cognitive technology, and machine learning are becoming increasingly intertwined in the classroom and online learning environment as products like IBM Watson Element aim...
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Rethinking Learning Using a Flipped Model
The Flipped Learning Model describes a reversal of the traditional teaching model. Instead of students first being introduced to concepts for the first time through lectures in a class, students are...
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Top 7 Things You Must Know about Canvas!
Recently, the Florida Board of Governors selected Canvas as the state’s preferred Learning Management System (LMS). Prior to making its recommendation, the Florida Board of Governors administered a...
View ArticleAvoiding Content Overload: Less Can Be More
We are extremely lucky to live in The Information Age. Not only is information more ubiquitous than ever, it is also generated at a faster rate than at any other point in history. The downside is that...
View ArticleWill you join us at the 2017 FIU Online Conference?
The FIU Online Annual Conference presents a great opportunity to discover instructional technology and innovative learning tools, enrich courses that are engaging and high in quality, and engage...
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Community Service: It’s an FIU Online Thing
Every year, FIU Online dedicates a staff meeting to help others. We call this FIU Online’s ‘Day of Service.’ This fall term, the FIU Online team headed out to Liberty City Elementary to help beautify...
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The Instructional Design Conference of Miami
Design. Development. Delivery. This was the theme for the first annual innoved Conference, hosted by innoved Online, a full service eLearning development and consultation team powered by FIU Online....
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FIU Online presents 3 sessions, wins award at Online Learning Consortium...
The FIU Online Team was invited to present a total of three sessions at the 2017 Online Learning Consortium (OLC) Accelerate conference in Orlando, Florida. The OLC Accelerate conference “is devoted to...
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Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Online Course Content More Accessible
A benefit of online courses is the ability of instructors and students to access content from wherever and whenever they have internet access. This opens up the range of students who have access to...
View ArticleCANVAS Learning Management System Migration from Blackboard
M E MO R A N D U M TO: Faculty and Staff FROM: Kenneth G. Furton, Provost and Executive Vice President DATE: October 23, 2017 RE: CANVAS Learning...
View ArticleInstructional Design – much more than fixing the LMS!
Inside Higher Ed recently wrote an article titled “Instructional Design Teams: Beyond the Numbers”. The article focuses on the structure of instructional design teams across different universities and...
View ArticleReflecting on 2017 and Challenging Your Online Teaching Strategies
“We do not learn from experience…we learn from reflecting on experience.” ― John Dewey As a new year (and term!) begins, now is a good time to reflect on how last year went with your online course(s)....
View ArticleRegister today! CanvasCon @ FIU
Register here: https://events.bizzabo.com/CanvasConFIU About the Event Please join us for our 2018 CanvasCon at FIU in Miami Florida! CanvasCon is a one-day, regional event that we’ve specifically...
View ArticleFIU Online Co-hosts Fourth Annual International Seminar on Online Higher...
Miami, Florida, January 16, 2018–Technology is making the world an increasingly smaller place. As more institutions embrace distance learning and the demand for online learning surges, interest in best...
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To Ban or Not To Ban (Laptops)? That Is The Question…
Throughout 2017, the student use of laptops/technology ban in the classroom debate got hotter than Miami in August. While not a new concern in the classroom, this laptop ban debate merits discussion....
View ArticleFIU Online Programs Top-Ranked in the Nation.
U.S. News and World Report releases 2018 rankings for online programs. Written by Monica Smith, Content Strategist for FIU Online. Miami, Florida, January 23, 2018 – As Miami’s first and only public...
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FIU Online presents 3 sessions at Florida Distance Learning Association...
FIU Online was invited to present a total of three sessions at the 2017 Florida Distance Learning Association (FDLA) conference in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The theme for this year’s conference was:...
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