This fall, the Kirwan Center will expand the scope of its ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative to make learning materials more affordable for students. This work is being made possible by a $1 million grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation’s Education program.
The University of ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø's Robert H. Smith School of Business has launched a MicroMasters® program in MBA Core Curriculum on online learning platform edX.org. The series of seven courses is the first MicroMasters program on the edX platform to offer transferable credits to a full MBA degree.
Educators from more than a dozen colleges and universities visited the University of ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø, 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 ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Kirwan Center, provided the keynote address.
As part of a first wave of new services, the M.O.S.T. initiative has launched the to support ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø faculty in finding easy-to-adopt, high-quality OER. Explore the to find curated course materials to replace expensive textbooks in many college courses. These learning resources are openly licensed and fully accessible; include comprehensive learning content; are simple to customize; and allow students to retain copies of course materials forever.
Clifford M. Kendall, former long-time Chair of the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø (ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø) 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 ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø is well known. He dedicated countless hours of service to both the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Board of Regents and the ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Foundation, and his incredible generosity to his alma mater, the University of ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø, 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 ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is seeking proposals for the 2018 High-impact OER Mini-Grant program to strategically support ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø public institutions’ efforts to adopt/adapt Open Educational Resources (OERs) or scale OER adoption.
The Kirwan Center is seeking institutional partners from across ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø 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.
Advancing Postsecondary Student Success Through OER: A Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education is a day-long summit that will be held on Dec. 8, 2017 and will bring together faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and administrators from across ϡȱÁÔÆæÍø’s higher education institutions to explore the promise of using open educational resources (OER) to replace costly textbooks with affordable, high-quality learning materials while giving instructors the opportunity to repurpose content to meet their students’ needs.
The Kirwan Center has released a new resource to support the development of mini-grant programs aimed at scaling OER adoption across institutions.
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