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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

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.

The lack of screen real estate will push us to think about what is really important in our classes.

result in cleaner, sparer, and more elegant learning experience

What we don't do very well is take things away.

ractices that work well in online courses - such as a focus on presence and a commitment to timely and energetic feedback

low-residency and online learning is preferred. (And indeed, often the only possible method to complete or continue an education