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Mar 31
5 min

5 Questions for MIT's Vice President for Open Learning, Sanjay Sarma

Sanjay Sarma is the Vice President for Open Learning at MIT, and the co-author of Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn. Along with L

Spring Clean Your Classroom: Clear Out These 8 Myths About Online Communities

Brian Verdine, Ph.D.

Mar 30
5 min

Spring Clean Your Classroom: Clear Out These 8 Myths About Online Communities

Talking to instructors who are new to Yellowdig, we often find there are a number of misconceptions around student participation and the rol

The New Horizon of Opportunity with Yellowdig’s Group Update

Yellowdig Team

Mar 25
4 min

The New Horizon of Opportunity with Yellowdig’s Group Update

Before: When groups were enabled, you could only work in groups. When they were public, students in other groups could interact with your po

Yellowdig's Freeform Points: Breaking Free to Enable Co-Curricular Activities

Yellowdig Team

Mar 22
3 min

Yellowdig's Freeform Points: Breaking Free to Enable Co-Curricular Activities

Although Yellowdig is mostly used to build community and engagement in the classroom setting, we have seen a number of uses that were fantas

Yellowdig's New and Improved Instructor Certification Course

Yellowdig Team

Mar 11
8 min

Yellowdig's New and Improved Instructor Certification Course

At Yellowdig, we don’t claim for our technology to be magic. The real magic happens when you combine our technology with our data-backed ped

Brianna Bannach

Feb 26
7 min

A Student Perspective of Yellowdig

At the center of Yellowdig is community and at the center of community are the learners. We value the experience and insights from students

Yellowdig Student and Instructor Fall 2020 Survey Results

Brian Verdine, Ph.D.

Feb 26
6 min

Yellowdig Student and Instructor Fall 2020 Survey Results

At the end of the Fall 2020 semester we asked Yellowdig instructors to share a survey with their students, as well as fill one out for thems

Bob Ertischek

Feb 26
3 min

The Topic is Topics

In my face-to-face classes, I’d look around the classroom and try to intuit whether or not my students “got” what I was talking about by ask

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