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September 2018 was the Excelsior OWL’s best month ever! Total users, sessions, and pageviews far surpassed the last record set in October 2017. The total number of users for the month topped 77K, while...
The Booth Ferris Foundation has awarded Excelsior University a $200,000 grant to create a Center for Writing Excellence. The two-year project began on September 1 and will advance the College’s strategic initiative around Writing...
by Teri Gergen Less than a minute…that’s how much time attendees are given to scan the round tables and choose a lightning round presentation to attend at the eLearning conference sponsored annually by the Instructional...
by Christie Allred The more I use OER’s (open educational resources), the more I feel better about not only saving students money, but really having up-to-date and reliable textbook sources for students. The Excelsior...
The Excelsior OWL and three SUNY colleges—Rockland, Clinton, and Monroe Community Colleges—have received a SUNY Innovative Instruction Transformation Grant (IITG) to advance Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). The two-year project involves partnering to develop...
by Elizabeth Johnston When I first started teaching English 101 twenty years ago at West Virginia University, I used a reader and what probably amounted to an unofficial OER—a binder of resources created for...
In this series of articles, the Excelsior University Online Writing Lab (OWL) team interviews students and instructors about the OWL and finds out more about how this unique platform provides an invaluable resource to...
In January, Excelsior University ran a student survey to a random selection of enrolled undergraduate students in order to discover what students thought about the Excelsior Online Writing Lab. Overall, the results were...
by Christie Allred I taught an accelerated (advancing students at a faster rate using varied instructional strategies) ESOL class this past semester. Taught? Well, yes, but I also worked really hard with students that...
Today, the Excelsior OWL expanded its Writing Refresher resource by releasing four refresher modules on APA style. The modules cover the following topics: in-text citations, references, formatting, and style. Each module is a stand-alone...