Sat.Feb 17, 2018 - Fri.Feb 23, 2018

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Student-created, peer-assessed Open Educational Resources

Teaching Matters Online Learning

CC BY 2.0 Flickr: Steve Johnson The MSc in Digital Education programme experiments with different modes and forms of assessment, and one course, Digital Futures for Learning, has made creating Open Educational Resources (OERs) one of its core assignments. The course gives students the opportunity to consider the trajectory and implications of digital technologies for the future of learning.

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Science and a good story: UK Scientists simulate the climate of Game of Thrones

Terminalfour

Crafting a story that combines scientific research and popular entertainment can increase engagement, sharing and media attention.

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A Liberal Arts Education

Hope College Network

Going into the college search, there were a lot of things I didn’t know. There seemed to be a whole new vocabulary of words and terms that applied to college that I didn’t have prior knowledge of. One of those terms was liberal arts. From the word itself and how it was used I began to build my own understanding of it, but it wasn’t until I was at Hope experiencing Liberal Arts for myself that I began to really understand and appreciate a Liberal Arts education.