The Open Learning Initiative: Measuring the Effectiveness of the OLI Statistics Course in Accelerating Student Learning

Marsha Lovett; Oded Meyer; Candace Thille

Journal of Interactive Media in Education Vol. 2008, No. 1 (2008)

The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is an open educational resources project at Carnegie Mellon University that began in 2002 with a grant from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. OLI creates web-based courses that are designed so that students ...

Improving the Feedback Cycle to Improve Learning in Introductory Biology Using the Digital Dashboard

William E. Brown; Marsha Lovett; Diana Bajzek; James M. Burnette

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2006 (October 2006) pp. 1030–1035

At Carnegie Mellon we are integrating timely and targeted feedback for the students and real-time student progress reports for the instructor to create an online learning environment that engages the student, improves learning and allows immediate...

Topics: Students

Inventing the Digital Dashboard for Learning

Diana Bajzek; William Brown; Marsha Lovett; Gordon Rule

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2007 (Jun 25, 2007) pp. 1084–1092

Carnegie Mellon is creating a Digital Dashboard for Learning (DDL) to enable faculty and students to tune their immediate actions (lectures, assignments, study) based on rapid feedback on student progress in learning. The DDL will provide faculty...

Topics: Learning Objects, Faculty, Students

Assessment and Instruction: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Diana Bajzek; Judy Brooks; William Jerome; Marsha Lovett; John Rinderle; Gordon Rule; Candace Thille

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (Nov 17, 2008) pp. 560–565

In this paper we describe our research and development efforts to integrate assessment and instruction in ways that provide immediate feedback to students and meaningful data for our Digital Dashboard for Learning (DDL). The DDL is an instructional...