As MOOCs, or Massive Online Open Courseware, emerged over the last several years, the shaping of the industry has been widely influenced by a few large actors, such as edX, Coursera and Udacity, as ...

Course development for Summer and Fall 2025 is now open. Faculty must add content to begin building their courses in preparation for the upcoming terms. As part of the university’s transition to our ...

Developing high-quality course materials takes time, which is something many educators often don’t have enough of. Faculty already juggle lesson planning, content creation, and administrative work, ...

Course development for summer and fall 2026 is now available in Canvas. The transition from Blackboard will conclude in spring 2026, and Canvas will serve as the LMS for all courses moving forward.

Culture and Language Across the Curriculum (CLAC) is a national framework designed to promote the use of foreign languages to enhance the study of non-language subjects. The Center for Asian Studies ...

In my first post I examined the role of course developers and the skills they bring to the creation of MOOCs. In a second, I wrote about the contrast between instructional designers, course developers ...