Winter is coming! The Fall 2022 course resources adoption season is coming to a close. Slide in before that July 8th, 2022 deadline by entering your required course materials and textbook(s) into the FIU Adoption & Insights Portal (AIP). Fall 2022 Textbook & Course Resources Adoption Even if you do not require the purchase of […]
We make opportunities for our students.Increased access to education equals more opportunities for students. Florida International University’s online degree programs are specifically designed for key industries, such as computer engineering, cybersecurity, public health, and hospitality, which need employees. FIU Online delivers education to students anywhere they are, and our fully online students don’t have to […]
Great things are happening at FIU Online! For example, Affordability Counts is being offered to other Florida state schools, along with a new revamp of its website. Affordability Counts encourages faculty to adopt free or low-cost materials when developing their courses and recognizes those faculty who have proactively made changes to make materials less costly […]
FacultyEnlight is a source for researching, adopting, and sharing insights about textbooks and course material. In preparation for the Summer and Fall 2018 semesters, faculty should declare required and recommended textbook and instructional materials for their lecture or lab courses via FacultyEnlight. Faculty should also declare if their courses will not require material to be […]
On February 28th, FIU co-hosted in conjunction with Canvas a regional edtech conference at the Roz & Cal Kovens Convention Center. The day before the main conference, pre-conference training sessions were available on Canvas basics for instructors and Canvas system administrators. The conference provided over 30 informational sessions with a K-12, HigherEd, Partner/Vendor and Innovation […]
MOOC or massive open online courses have been around since 2006 and experienced a peak around 2012. Many institutions rushed to get classes online in many of the available platforms, but over time it appears as if the massive open movement has slowed down a bit. Even as the excitement of a free online classes […]
FIU Online was invited to present a total of three sessions at the 2017 Florida Distance Learning Association (FDLA) conference in Altamonte Springs, Florida. The theme for this year’s conference was: “Driving Distance Learning to Excellence.” The FDLA Annual Conference aims “to share knowledge, experiences, and information concerning strategies and technologies for the advancement of […]
Recently, FIU announced a partnership with OpenStax, a provider of openly licensed textbooks. OpenStax will be providing FIU and 10 other institutions guidance and best practices for OER implementation throughout our campuses. So what exactly are OERs or open educational resources and how can you get started? What is OER? Open Educational Resources are materials […]
Source: FIU News Written by Jennifer Lacayo On average, college students spend between $600 and $1,400 on textbooks each year, according to the College Board. These costs contribute to mounting student debt and cause some students to take longer than four years to graduate. FIU has put in place a number of measures to help […]
Over 150 of FIU’s course offerings are now carrying the Affordability Counts Medallion. This is a major milestone for the program that began a little over a year ago. As part of the Affordability Counts initiative, faculty at the university self-identify as teaching courses that contain course materials that are under $60. This cost is […]
