Three Approaches for Achieving Student Success in Online Education

Christina Perdikoulias
Christina Perdikoulias
President, DigitalEd

Student success is the foundation of every higher education institution—whether this means improving graduation rates, ensuring more students get a degree sooner, or reducing the number of students who drop out before graduating. When students are engaged both academically and socially, they’re far more likely to perform better, stay motivated, and achieve their academic goals. Similarly, …

Starting Strong with Möbius Foundations

Jonny Zivku
Jonny Zivku
Director, Product Marketing

At DigitalEd, we understand the obstacles that can come up when starting with a new tool at your institution. Because of that we are proud to announce that Möbius Foundations is now available to all new customers! Möbius Foundations is a collection of expert-level content that you’ll have instant access to—from any class in Möbius—to …

Active Learning with Möbius Lessons

Learn the Concept + Apply the Concept = Learn by Doing
Jonny Zivku
Jonny Zivku
Director, Product Marketing

When you think about academic lessons in a college or university setting, where does your mind go? For some, it might remind you of being in-person attending a lecture. Or perhaps it reminds you of taking a course online. Or maybe it immediately brings back memories of textbooks, course notes, or downloadable resources you used …

Equity in STEM education

Lachlan Swain
Lachlan Swain
Team Lead: Implementation & Support

STEM subjects, in general, are hard. And rightly so, these subjects represent the limit of our technical understanding. However, that doesn’t mean we should accept that some students will struggle and learn to dislike our favourite subject; we should do everything we can to ensure their success. A vicious circle can occur where if the …

The Future Of Exams Is Here – Möbius For Secure Online Proctoring

Möbius: Our world-class math engine can help to create and deploy online STEM courses and assessments with capabilities to authorize and proctor your students fully.
Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

For instructors and students, remote learning and examination is the new normal. Thanks to the abundance of technical instruments available, institutes now can take learning online. While remote examination and online proctoring have gained popularity, the question is how to ensure high academic integrity in an online environment. In this post, we’ll discuss how Möbius, …

STEM Homework and Assessment Without Compromise

Möbius provides the most robust & comprehensive online homework and assessment solution for STEM classes.
Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

Student homework and assessment has changed. In this age, new technologies are constantly evolving or being introduced to assist content authors, instructors, and educators with this task. A question that is often asked is whether online student assessments are different from assessments designed for in-person classes. Moreover, which tools should be used to change our …

Designing And Delivering Online Stem Courses

Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

Designing and delivering skills-based effective, high-quality, customized online STEM courses requires the right balance between ease of learning, accessibility, speed, proper tools, and consistency to provide a better learning experience. A webinar hosted by DigitalEd with the Mathematics department of the University of Waterloo discussed the issues they faced along with strategies they implemented during the transition to …

Put a Pause in Your Lecture: A Benefit of Online Learning

Putting a pause in a lecture to improve learning.
Meg Tyler
Meg Tyler

In the last few months, there have been many challenges that both educators and students have had to face. Some schools were already making use of the benefits of online learning, but others had to jump into online learning very quickly. Still, in both cases, there was a new and different approach to how learning …

What is your Academic Continuity Plan?

Christina Perdikoulias
Christina Perdikoulias
President, DigitalEd

How IT principles of disaster recovery and business continuity planning provide a powerful model for higher education. TECHNOLOGY WITHOUT COMPROMISE I’ve been very fortunate to work with inspiring thought leaders across various industries within the enterprise software space, supporting incredibly knowledgeable customers with demanding requirements. Each new sector I encountered surfaced with unique challenges to …

One Size Doesn’t Fit All – Adaptive Testing

Adaptive Testing
Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

Educators have always known that different students in their classes have different needs. One of their biggest challenges is how to meet the individual needs of each student while facing the inevitable constraints of time, money, and resources. If a student fails to learn one idea properly, it will have a large impact on their …

DIGITALED AND THE GATES’ ARE ON THE SAME PAGE

2019's Annual Letter from the Gates' was released, and at DigitalEd we can't help but agree.
Siobhan Paul
Siobhan Paul
Director, Global Marketing

Recently the Gates’ 2019 Annual letter was released – covering topics related to their philanthropic efforts as well as day-to-day living improvements. For us at DigitalEd, the “surprise” that we enjoyed reading the most was #8 “Textbooks are becoming obsolete”. Now contrary to the title, the conversation isn’t focused on the cons of a published …

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