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Office of Digital Education & Innovation, charged with scaling up instructional innovation and experimentation across the institution. In its early days, the office was divided into three labs:    The Learning, Education and Design Lab, focused on doing research and scholarship to understand how instructional technologies and digital media can be used in teaching, learning and collaboration; The Digital Education & Innovation Lab, which was established to help create new digital courses, including MOOCs, and help develop open educational resources; and The Digital Innovation Greenhouse, which emphasized development of software specifically to help students.

First, the courses will be taught entirely online—an option that Southern Methodist has never before offered to undergraduates.

taught by professors at other universities

ourses, offered through the online-education company 2U, will come from a consortium of colleges participating in 2U’s Semester Online program

Learning Fellows are talented Dartmouth undergraduates interested in teaching and education. Learning Fellows work directly with Dartmouth professors to enhance and streamline classroom learning environments. In class, Learning Fellows help facilitate group problem solving sessions, lead small group dialogues, provide academic support to their peers during lectures and labs, and promote deeper engagement with course material. There are several “types” of Learning Fellows on campus, each trained to addressed specific needs of faculty and students.