Excelsior OWL Users Double in One Year!
From 2017-2018, the total number of people using the Online Writing Lab more than doubled! In 2018, the OWL logged 535,642 users, a 102% increase from the previous year. Total sessions also doubled by...
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Intern’s Corner: Utilizing an Outline Tutorial
This term I am doing an internship at Excelsior University and as luck would have it I report to the online writing lab department. To start off this term, I thought I would try...
Open Educational Resources in New York State
By Jason Brown The move to Open Educational Resources (OERs) has increased exponentially over the last few years with providers like Lumen, OpenStax and Saylor helping pave the way for the creation and distribution...
Fall 2018 OWL Newsletter
A Birds-Eye View Welcome to the first quarterly newsletter for the Excelsior OWL! The fall is traditionally a time for harvesting the crops that have been sown and tended during the year. The OWL...
Compare and Contrast Essay: Beyond Similarities and Differences
By Jason Brown When students end up in my Freshmen Composition course, I find that many of them come in with the expectation that I will tell them what to write (in terms of...
The Excelsior OWL Hits Record-Breaking Highs!
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...
Excelsior Receives a $200,000 Award from Booth Ferris to Create a Center for Writing Excellence
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...
The OWL’s APA Refresher Module Supports Academic Integrity for Health Science Students
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...
Reading for College Success! Using the ORC for an English for Speakers of Other Languages Intermediate Reading Course
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...
Excelsior OWL Partners with SUNY to Promote Writing Across the Curriculum with Grant Award
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...