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Are you new to open educational resources (OER) and interested in learning how to adopt or scale OER in your course or across your institution? Register to join the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative at the M.O.S.T. Regional OER Forum: Eastern Maryland to participate in interactive sessions, discussions, and hands-on workshops on OER in higher education.

Are you new to open educational resources (OER) and interested in learning how to adopt or scale OER in your course or across your institution? Join the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative at the M.O.S.T. Regional OER Forum: Western Maryland to participate in interactive sessions, discussions, and hands-on workshops on OER in higher education.

This webinar series invites institutional teams to explore tools for selecting effective assessment technologies and enhance collaborative capacities for data-enriched decision making.

This webinar series invites institutional teams to explore tools for selecting effective assessment technologies and enhance collaborative capacities for data-enriched decision making.

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Join educators and administrators from the Northeast region to share, learn and connect about quality online education. This regional conference is co-sponsored by Quality Matters, Towson University and the University System of Maryland William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation.

Advancing Postsecondary Student Success Through OER: A Statewide Symposium on Open Educational Resources was a day-long summit that will brought together faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and administrators from across Maryland’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. 

This workshop, co-sponsored by the USM William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation and Towson University's Office of Academic Innovation, will highlight opportunities for instructional design staff and faculty working with the Quality Matters framework to develop research studies related to learner success in online courses. Dr. Kay Shattuck, Director of Research for Quality Matters, will discuss recent findings in the field, then guide participants in applying the Quality Matters Research Toolkit to investigate student retention and/or learning.

The Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation and the USM Advisory Board for Graduate Education co-sponsored a system-wide convening on student learning outcomes assessment. National experts Natasha Jankowski (NILOA) and Daniel Denecke (Council of Graduate Schools) joined USM faculty, staff, and administrators for discussions on the “state of the art” of learning outcomes assessment across general education, undergraduate degree programs, graduate programs, and the co-curriculum.