UMBC faculty and staff may recall that DoIT used to publish a list of most active Blackboard courses for every term. However, we discontinued this after Spring 2013, when we completed our...
December 18, 2017
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Learn more about the redesigned next generation Blackboard
Four faculty will redesign and teach courses using Blackboard’s Ultra Experience, the next generation of Blackboard’s learning management system during the SP2018 semester. As part of a unique...
December 18, 2017
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10:12 AM
Begin your OER Mini-Grant proposal today!
Today the University System of Maryland 's William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation announced the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) 2018 High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program. Learn...
December 12, 2017
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12:01 PM
Call for Proposals Ends 11/22/17
The Quality Matters Regional Conference East is currently accepting proposals for its spring conference, which will be held at Towson University on March 22-23, 2018. The conference theme is...
November 15, 2017
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10:58 AM
Registration Re-Opened Due to High Demand
Due to high demand, we have increased capacity for the Maryland OER Summit and have re-opened registration. This day-long summit will bring together faculty, instructional designers, librarians,...
November 15, 2017
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10:28 AM
Key Findings: Leveraging Online Learning & Smartphones
UMBC has participated in the Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) student survey for 11 of the past 12 years, and taken part in the Faculty survey on its bi-annual deployments....
November 14, 2017
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4:52 PM
Share your favorite technologies with the UMBC Community
The Instructional Technology team is celebrating our 3rd Annual TechFest in 2018. TechFest is designed to bring together UMBC students, faculty, and staff to share their favorite technologies with...
November 8, 2017
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1:13 PM
Three days of lunchtime panels & conversations
One in four students take some of their courses online, and two-thirds do so at a public institution (Allen, Seaman, Pouline, & Straut, 2016). In early November, UMBC celebrates the 10th...
October 24, 2017
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2:56 PM
3rd Annual TechFest on March 29, 2018
On March 29, 2018, the Instructional Technology team will hold our third annual TechFest. TechFest brings the campus community together and demonstrates ways that technology can both support and...
October 23, 2017
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11:13 AM
Register now to attend on Friday, December 8, 2017
Register now to attend Advancing Postsecondary Student Success Through OER: A Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education. Date: Friday, December 8, 2017 Location:...
October 20, 2017
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