Future-Proofing STEM Courses to Create World-Class Digital Teaching and Learning

Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

Since March, universities have made radical changes to the way they teach STEM subjects, not only responding to the challenges of Covid-19, but also taking the opportunity to change and review pedagogical models. A Times Higher Education panel, hosted in partnership with DigitalEd, brought together a group of academics from around the UK who outlined the various …

Roundtable: Things to Come in 2021

Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

It’s been a transformative year for the world at large – nowhere more so than for the education sector. How will COVID, distance learning, emerging technologies and the pressing need for digital upskilling continue to define the sector in 2021? Steve Wright asks the experts

Sakai and Möbius | Enhance your LMS

Notre Dame saw an opportunity to improve their LMS with Möbius' online assessment capabilities.
Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

Sakai LMS is great. It was designed by educators for educators. It’s intended for use within higher education but as educators know, no LMS is perfect. It is designed as an administrative tool within education. But, when the University of Notre Dame set out to provide their STEM students with a robust assessment tool, they …

DigitalEd Extends Access To Quality Online STEM Education With Founder Purvar

DigitalEd announces a new partnership to provide greater access in Japan and China to Möbius, the most innovative online platform for STEM.
Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

DigitalEd  is excited to announce a significant new partnership with Founder Purvar, a global solutions provider of educational software and information technology in both Japan and China. Through this partnership, Founder Purvar will join DigitalEd’s global reseller network to provide access to Möbius, the online learning platform for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM), and …

Overcoming classroom disruptions

Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics has introduced a new course designed to help secondary school students whose education was interrupted abruptly by COVID-19 sharpen their mathematical skills ahead of commencing their post-secondary education. The new online, skills-based course, MTHEL 199, gives Waterloo’s incoming students extra practice in six branches of mathematics: inequalities and …

UW Math Course for Kids Gets 10 Million Page Views

Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

Online math lessons for kids and teens developed by the University of Waterloo saw a 200 per cent uptake in student engagement this past school year, especially during the early months of the pandemic. The Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC) website says it had more than 10 million page views, with almost a third of those …

Learning Online with Möbius: A Student’s Perspective

In mid-March the University of Waterloo suspended all on-campus classes and quickly transitioned to online learning. One of the smoothest transitions for me was Linear Algebra I for Honours Mathematics (Math 136), which employed the use of Möbius.
Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

A Sudden Shift In mid-March the University of Waterloo suspended all on-campus classes and quickly transitioned to online learning. One of the smoothest transitions for me was Linear Algebra I for Honours Mathematics (Math 136), which employed the use of Möbius. The remainder of the course was primarily taught using videos created by professors using …

Interactive Learning and Student Engagement

Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

Interactive learning activities and student engagement are key to successful learning experiences. Burcu Karabina and Amanda Garcia integrated these components when developing MATH 237 for Spring 2020. This course, which has a current enrollment of approximately 600, was originally scheduled to go online in Fall 2020, but launched one term early due to the shift …

Increasing Student Access and Flexibility to Mathematics using the Möbius Platform at the University of Waterloo

Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

Dr. Steven Furino, Assistant Dean for Online Studies in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Waterloo wanted to provide students with access to flexible and engaging courses, resources and opportunities to practice mathematics online.To achieve this goal, the University of Waterloo partnered with DigitalEd(link is external), a local software company, to develop a new …

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Assessing the Challenges of Digital Assets – Dr. Steven Furino

Dr. Steven Furino, Assistant Dean of Online Studies at University of Waterloo shares his experience
Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

There can be tremendous gains made using technology, but that technology alone will be hard pressed to create those gains in learning. We need to align our technology with wisdom from cognitive science and psychology, with the social structures of schools and neighborhoods, and with reductions in economic class differences that deprive significant fractions of the population …

Education & Industry, Working Together – Jim and Mark (Part 2)

Mark Schneider discusses how digital education can be used to prepare students for industry
Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

At the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Mark Schneider is best known for his passion for delivering instruction and his ongoing commitment to educational technology research. Since 2011, Mark has delivered mathematics instruction geared toward Engineering Technologies and Academic Upgrading. He was recently seconded to a consulting role to lead a campus-wide initiative to phase …

Digital Assessment – Jim and Mark (Part 1)

Mark Schneider explores the topic of digital assessment tools this week with Jim Cooper, in the first part of their discussion about digital education.
Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

At the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Mark Schneider is best known not only for his passion for delivering instruction but also for his ongoing commitment to educational technology research. Since 2011, Mark has delivered mathematics instruction geared toward Engineering Technologies as well as Academic Upgrading. Quite recently, he was seconded to a consulting role …

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