This fall, the Kirwan Center will expand the scope of its ϡȱ 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 ϡȱ (UMD) Project Management Center for Excellence has transformed its approach to online education by working with the edX platform to deliver its Agile Project Management Professional Certificate program at a global scale.
Beginning Sept. 30, the University of Baltimore School of Law and edX—a premier provider of massive online open courses (MOOCs)—will host "The Supreme Court and American Politics," an eight-week self-paced examination of the causes and effects of politics on the nation's top legal institution. The course, available entirely online at no cost, is hosted by Lyle Denniston, long-time Supreme Court reporter, unofficial dean emeritus of the Supreme Court press corps and UB's Wilson H.
The University of ϡȱ'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.
In spring 2018, members of the Kirwan Center’s embarked on a project to conduct analyses of return on investment (ROI) on academic innovation efforts undertaken around the system.
In Fall 2017, the Kirwan Center assembled a leadership team made up of representatives from four ϡȱ institutions to help advance system-wide efforts to scale, sustain, and assess High-Impact Practices (HIPs). The team will spend a year building capacity within its institutions to track student participation in HIPs, adapt and use emerging quality frameworks associated with HIPs, and assess the individual and cumulative impact of HIPs on student retention/progression/completion and on student learning.
As part of a first wave of new services, the M.O.S.T. initiative has launched the to support ϡȱ faculty in finding easy-to-adopt, high-quality OER.
As a way to help bridge the gap between students’ accomplishments in college and their workplace readiness, the ϡȱ Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation is working with institutions within the System to develop digital badges that will help students choose experiences aimed at developing career-ready skills and better communicate what they know and are able to do once they enter the world of work.
The ϡȱ Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative, led by the ϡȱ’s William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation, is .seeking proposals for its 2018 High-impact OER Mini-Grant program to strategically support ϡȱ public institutions’ efforts to adopt Open Educational Resources (OERs) as a means to greatly reduce textbook costs and address college affordability for students. Building on the prior success of the M.O.S.T. initiative and the first round of mini-grants, this funding program will target OER adoption in “high impact,” high enrollment courses for which high-quality OER already exists. Two types of mini-grants will be awarded: 1) Adopt/Adapt OER ($500 - $1,500) and 2) Scaling OER ($1,500 - $2,500).
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